STEVE KELSO INTERVIEW

[Rex Wockner]

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Colt Supermodel Steve Kelso Does San Diego

Raises $600 In 10 Minutes At Rodeo Appearance

by Rex Wockner

SAN DIEGO -- Colt Studio porn supermodel Steve Kelso swung through San
Diego last week and signed photos, posters, magazines and calendars
featuring his naked, hot, hairy bod, in appearances at Obelisk bookstore
and an adult video shop.

And he gave this brief interview to the Gay and Lesbian Times:

Times: Everybody wants to know if you're married or single.

Kelso: I'm still single, still single. No time.

Times: Do you still work at a gay bar in New Jersey?

Kelso: Yeah, a place called The Den.

Times: You meet people there, don't you?

Kelso: Yeah, but I've been there for like 16 years.

Times: So you never see anybody new?

Kelso: I do. I get a lot of out-of-towners that come in that
know who I am and stuff.

Times: Do you travel around much of the year?

Kelso: Not all the time. Winter I usually take out to get fat
and get drunk. (He laughs.) But come summertime, I have to start
training and things like that, to go on the road. Now, this is a
very big tour.

Times: How many cities?

Kelso: I don't know. There's more coming up. I'll be in Dallas,
Washington, New York, and then up [the East Coast].

Times: This is the 1996 [Kelso] calendar tour?

Kelso: Yeah.

Times: What's the strangest thing that's happened so far in
signing pictures?

Kelso: Signing penises. (He raises his voice and gestures to
the men standing around the Obelisk observing the interview.) But
I'm always open to that. Anybody want to jump forward? That's fine.

Times: How many have you signed?

Kelso: Just one, in San Francisco.

Times: You'll be at the Folsom Street Fair?

Kelso: Yes. I'll sign photographs. Last year it was a benefit
for Project Open Hand and Stop AIDS San Francisco, and I raised
$3,000.

Subhead: Rodeo Surprise

The evening after his Obelisk appearance, Kelso made a surprise
visit to the Mission Valley Marriott hotel for the gay rodeo's Boots
& Briefs contest -- and auctioned off his T-shirt for $600. The bid
went from $400 to $600 after Kelso unbuttoned his Levis 501s,
revealing no underwear and about one inch of his world-famous penis.
The money went to Special Delivery.

When he left the stage, Kelso was swarmed by fans. He patiently
signed the shirts they were wearing for about 45 minutes.

Fans waiting in line at the Obelisk gushed over the man of
their fantasies:

John Baylin, 47, caterer: "I have only one question to ask
Steve Kelso: Will you marry me?"

Bruce Gowan, 37, computer consultant: "I think he's gorgeous
and he's fun to look at. He's that ultimate man that everybody wants
and nobody will get."

"Tim," 41, engineer: "He's more of a regular, normal kind of
guy [than other porn stars]."

Steve Schenk, 36, accountant: "Just one look at his eyes and
that's it."

Mark Kelly, 34, neuropsychologist: "I'm here to get a calendar
for my lover who thinks Steve Kelso is the hottest-looking man
alive."

Craig Stearman, 36, human resources: "Steve Kelso is the man of
my dreams. He's the best-looking thing on earth and he's got a great
smile and a great physique. He just puts a smile on my face."

Stephan Hamann, 28, psychologist: "I'm here to meet my fantasy
man. Is that too cliche?"

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Rex Wockner is a San Diego-based journalist. Among other things, he covers
breaking news for 70 gay newspapers and newscasts in 40 U.S. states and 12
countries. Since 1985, he has written for over 175 gay newspapers the
worldover. Highlights of his gay-news career include being in Denmark the
day it became the first country to allow gay marriage, covering the first
gay-pride events in Moscow and then-Leningrad, attending the International
Lesbian & Gay Association annual world conference, wherever it may be,
accidentally outing Richard Chamberlain, covering the International
Conferences on AIDS, being beaten up by New York City and Chicago cops
while snapping photos at ACT UP demonstrations, winning various Freedom of
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movements in the former East Bloc and the Third World. His e-mail address
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