Lee Ryder is dead
john cavallino
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Article 6549 of alt.sex.pictures.d:
From: ru...@groan.Berkeley.EDU (Rusty Wright)
Newsgroups: alt.sex.pictures.d
I just noticed this in last weeks "Bay Area Reporter" (the SF bay
area's largest lesbian, bi, and gay newspaper).
Darras Robert Pyron "Lee Ryder", Aug. 3, 1959 - July 10, 1991.
Former San Francisco resident Robert Pyron, 31, died of AIDS
complications on July 10, in Chris Brownlie Hospice in Los Angeles. A
memorial service was held July 14 at Hollywood United Methodist
Church, and graveside services were conducted when his ashes were
interred July 26 at Montecito Memorial Park in San Bernardino. He is
survived by his parents, Darras and Dorothy Pyron in Norco,
California; and sister, Debbie Riseling in Riverside, California.
Donations in his memory to AIDS project Los Angeles or Inland AIDS
project in San Bernardino would be appreciated.
Born in Willows, California, Pyron grew up in Laguna and graduated
from Esperanza High School in Anaheim. His interest had always been
floral design, but he preferred creating his own rather than copying
them out of books. He had workded for Crosley's Flowers in Los
Angeles, prepared floral arrangements for the VIP rooms at the Beverly
Hills Hotel and also the ones used for set decoration on the TV series
_Dynasty_.
Beginning in 1982, Pyron adopted the professional name Lee Ryder for
modelling and by 1984 had been seen in several gay magazine layouts
and on three magazine covers. He was also much in demand for gay
erotic films and made 13 between 1982 and 1986. The were _All
American Boys_, _The Biggest One I Ever Saw_, _Biker's Liberty_, _A
Few Good Men_, _Giants I_, _Hard_, _Huge I_, _Huge II_, _Screen Play_,
_Spokes_, _Sticky Business_, _Two by Ten_, and _Winner Takes All_.
In a 1984 interview in _Stallion_ magazine, he was very pragmatic
about his movie stardom. "I'm in the film business as a way of
opening my own flower business," he said. "I can make a lot of moeny
quickly and get a grip on my future."
Pyron was very much a nomad and liked to travel. He had been to
Hawaii, the Panama Canal, Switzerland, Germany, and Jamaica. During
the periods he settled down, he had worked for the Flower Loft in San
Bernardino and Riverside and achieved the dream of having his own
company. He ran Pyron Designs in the 9000 Sunset building in West
Hollywood and later re-established it in San Francisco.
After being diagnosed, Pyron subsequently developed PML and lost his
sight. He lived in a studio apartment in San Francisco during the
past year and enjoyed a more simple life, visiting at a PWA day-care
center and having a few beers with the gang for happy hour at a nearby
bar. Friends said he was very philosophical about his past, enjoyed
the fame, traveling, and recognition for his floral creations, had a
remarkable personal dignity, and was not bitter about his sight or
future.
When it became evident the end was near, Pyron returned to Los Angeles
on June 1 and became resident of Chris Brownlie Hospice.
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{Former San Francisco resident Robert Pyron, 31, died of AIDS
{complications on July 10, in Chris Brownlie Hospice in Los Angeles. A
{Beginning in 1982, Pyron adopted the professional name Lee Ryder for
{modelling and by 1984 had been seen in several gay magazine layouts
{and on three magazine covers. He was also much in demand for gay
{erotic films and made 13 between 1982 and 1986. The were _All
{American Boys_, _The Biggest One I Ever Saw_, _Biker's Liberty_, _A
{Few Good Men_, _Giants I_, _Hard_, _Huge I_, _Huge II_, _Screen Play_,
{_Spokes_, _Sticky Business_, _Two by Ten_, and _Winner Takes All_.
Somehow this reminds me of an article done several months ago in a porn
magazine. This fairly stunning (psuedo-chicken) porn star had been
murdered and decapitated. They show him with teddy-bears and hard-on
right next to the article.
Seems ironic to be getting such a personal body-chem high watching
a guy come that is now dead. Morbid, but true...