Shafer said he wanted his audiences to realize that a sense of humor and a passion for one’s talents matter more than good looks. In an interview with the gay magazine The Advocate in 2002, Mr. Information on his survivors was not immediately available. Shafer later worked as a personal trainer and appeared in Playgirl a final time in 2012.ĭirk Allan Shafer was born on Nov. through a character, a small-town policeman, who finds love and adventure when he moves to West Hollywood. Shafer wriggle uncomfortably inside the role he has agreed to play, it comes as a relief when he finally abandons it.”Īnother Shafer film, “Circuit” (2001), explored the world of over-the-top gay circuit parties.
Shafer’s modeling experience as a metaphor for the way society pressures gay people to act straight. The models, who all appeared in the original issues of Playgirl Magazine during its first two decades (1973-1987), represent, individually and collectively, some of the handsomest and sexiest men Playgirl Magazine. Page after page of male nudes, presented geographically. He added: “On a deeper level, ‘Man of the Year’ treats Mr. Presents Playgirl Magazine's 'Men Across America' Special Portfolio Issue. In a review in The New York Times, Stephen Holden wrote that the film “gleefully sabotages the notion that sex objects are sacred objects.”
