Leo Ford
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Career
In 1989, Ford was crowned King of the Beaux Arts Ball in New York City. His Queen was Melissa Slade.[4]
Ford paired with David Alan Reis aka "Lance" in Leo & Lance and Blonds Do It Best, Leo and Lance directed by William Higgins; Blonds Do It Best directed by Richard Morgan.[3] In his starring role for the film Games, directed by Steve Scott, Ford played a medal-winning swimmer in the Gay Games competition, with Al Parker playing a photographer assigned to take professional portraits of the athlete. In a scene that foreshadowed what happened to Ford in real life, his character had a severe motorcycle accident that left him hospitalized and in a coma.
Ford died in 1991 two days after a motorcycle accident, from a major brain trauma, after being hit by a car while riding his motorcycle near Sunset Boulevard. His partner of 6 years, Craig Markle, survived with minor injuries.
Personal life
Ford had a short-lived relationship with cult actor Divine.[5] The two travelled together and he made appearances at clubs in which Divine was contracted to perform. In late 1985, Ford began a relationship with Craig Markle. Ford and Markle lived together in Los Angeles and Hawaii, where they raised tropical birds and ran a tour and recreation business called "Pacific Paradise Tours".[6]
Selected videography
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See also
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Notes
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- ↑ Autopornography: a memoir of life in the lust lane (1997), Scott O'Hara, Routledge, Template:ISBN, Template:ISBN.
- ↑ Acts of intervention: performance, gay culture, and AIDS: Unnatural acts : theorizing the performative (1998), David Román, Indiana University Press, Template:ISBN, Template:ISBN.
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- ↑ Not simply Divine: beneath the make-up, above the heels and behind the scenes with a cult superstar (1994), Bernard Jay, Simon and Schuster, Template:ISBN, Template:ISBN.
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External links
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- 1957 births
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- American male pornographic film actors
- LGBTQ pornographic film actors
- American LGBTQ male actors
- LGBTQ people from Ohio
- Motorcycle road incident deaths
- Male actors from Dayton, Ohio
- Pornographic film actors from Ohio
- Road incident deaths in California
- 20th-century American male actors
- 20th-century American LGBTQ people