American porn star and director Al Parker was BOTD in 1952. Born Andrew Okun in Natick, Massachusetts, he claimed to have had his first “wholly satisfying” (ie., gay) sexual experience at the Woodstock Music Festival in 1969. He moved to California in the 1970s, where he worked as a butler for the Playboy Mansion. He was discovered by Jim French, the founder of gay porn company Colt Studios, who cast him in a series of adult films. Admired for his lean muscled physique and rugged working-class appeal, he appeared in over 20 features throughout the 1970s and 1980s including the imaginatively-titled Heavy Equipment, Inches, Turned On, A Few Good Men and Daddies Plaything. After a dispute with Colt over sharing the profits of his films, he founded his own production company Surge Studio, becoming one of the first gay porn studios to mandate safe sex practices during the HIV/AIDS epidemic. He died in 1992 of an AIDS-related illness, aged 40. Roger Edmondson’s biography Clone, based on Parker’s unpublished memoir, was published in 2000.