VICE MAGAZINE/ Stuck in a Hotel Room with the Grandaddy of Gay Porn by joshua haddow (via JOCKOHOMO)

During the late 1960s and 70s, Peter de Rome made over 100 films, mostly just for a laugh. They featured men—including himself—masturbating, making love, sucking, fucking, and generally having a great time. People started paying attention to Peter’s films in 1973, when his production Hot Pants scored big at the Wet Dream Film Festival in Amsterdam, and since then his films have been celebrated for their cinematic beauty by those who are able to appreciate how artfully lit and composed porn scenes are, even while they’re jacking off.

All of which has earned Peter the nickname the “Grandaddy of Gay Porn.” The 87-year-old considers this to be “quite nice, really,” and his friend Ethan Reid recently made a film about his life and work to help Peter celebrate the lofty esteem the art-porn community holds him in. The film is called Fragments: The Incomplete Films of Peter de Rome. Watch the trailer below:

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I went to see Peter to ask him about this and a ton of other really interesting things. We met in a hotel room in Covent Garden, London. I noticed that the lock on the outside of his door had broken. Peter said he’d had “too much wine” the night before, and had somehow managed to break it.

He was an incredibly nice man. Here’s a list of things we discussed that weren’t interesting enough to make the interview:

- He appeared in Breakfast at Tiffany’s because he was working on the counter there at the time.
- He filmed what was probably Greta Garbo’s last ever on-screen appearance (in a gay porn film).
- He had a lot of fun on Fire Island in the 1960s.
- Two of his biggest fans were William S. Burroughs and Sir John Gielgud (the latter wrote Peter a script for a porn called Trouser Bar).

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