Talk:Mickey Squires

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Some problems where the text doesn't appear supported by the sources. Just from looking at ref #1

• doesn't say he was born in Hollywood
• nor that he began his career with Fox
• nor that he gained his pseudonym ...after a friend encouraged him to pose nude.
• nor that Colt Studio Group revolutionized gay male visibility by establishing a "hyper-masculine" ideal
• nor that Colt Studios heavily utilized Squires to project this rugged, blue-collar masculinity
• nor He was noted by directors for his ability to maintain a rugged, "all-man" persona on screen.
• nor While most careers in the adult film industry are brief...
• nor is A lover of theater and high culture, he frequently surprised fans and clients with his intellectual and gentle demeanor, which stood in stark contrast to the aggressive, silent characters he portrayed on screen. supported at all

@AkaneNel, can you please make sure that all content is directly supported by the sources cited (WP:V), for this article and the others? Otherwise we'll unfortunately have to delete the pages Kowal2701 (talk, contribs) 17:18, 16 September 2026 (UTC)

• It’s mentioned in this queerty interview on the phone that he was enjoying himself and theatre (choreograph ballets and conduct orchestras) is mentioned and he worked with Fox too and his friend dared him is there too (check this source https://www.queerty.com/in-the-80s-adult-film-star-mickey-squires-was-every-guys-fantasy-now-he-realizes-his-fantasy-came-true-too-20260623/) he did hustling maybe some sort of escorting clients meet him and that where they were surprised (he frequently surprised fans and clients with his intellectual and gentle demeanor, which stood in stark contrast to the aggressive, silent characters he portrayed on screen.) and some of the others are mentioned in queerty newspapers. I will search for it. I will remove the Hollywood his birth place cause I saw that IAFD he did said that he was born in Southern California. I find about the colt

• WATCH: Vintage gay adult film star Mickey Squires tells all in this revealing new doc” (After school, he eventually got a sales job with the studio 20th Century Fox, which relocated him to San Francisco, “He casually posed for a flyer of a friend’s nightclub, which led to other, more risqué modeling, which led to hustling, which led to his work with Colt Films and Calls Colt “one of the trailblazers of gay erotica”, “raised by a single mom and fell in love with the performing arts while his brothers all pursued sports.” Also quotes him on the contrast: “I was laughing that they thought I was this sex person and I wasn’t, I was Richard, who’s not really that sexual… Everybody else who met me thought that I was Mickey Squires 24/7. I couldn’t live up to the image that I created!”,) (To an entire generation of gays, he was the paragon of butch masculinity. A mustachioed beefcake who appeared in a number of classic adult films and in countless erotic magazine spreads of the ’70s & ’80s, Mickey became a sex symbol at a time when we were still figuring out what it meant for queer people to be publicly visible.)
• “In the ’80s, adult film star Mickey Squires was every guy’s fantasy—now he realizes his fantasy came true, too”. (Describes him as epitomizing masculinity via Colt work and Calls him “the shy, sweet-natured kid” and discusses the public macho persona vs. private self at length.) (The directors of the documentary found him “Tough yet approachable” and “Gruff”)
• The Legend of Mickey Squires - ’80s porn star returns (He worked for 20th Century Fox Distribution in the early ’70s, He was dare to pose nude became an introduction into the world of X-rated filmmaking. A friend took nude cowboy-themed photos of him at home in West Hollywood. Those photos led to escort work and then to Colt and theater and museum-hopping journey” in Amsterdam when interviewed. He is described as the self-titled “Sondheimaniac”) (I meant that some adult film stars careers were brief or left because of AIDS/HIV but he worked long in this career then the others from his time till his last appearance in Butch Bear (2001) now he doesn’t work but he is active recently his documentary Mickey & Richard was made)

(AkaneNel (talk) 00:01, 17 September 2026 (UTC))