title: Bobby Blake
text: Bobby Blake (born Edgar Gaines; August 11, 1957) is a Baptist elder who acted in gay pornography until 2000.
  
  Biography
  
  Blake appeared in over 100 releases.
  
  Bobby Blake was a long time partner with Flex-Deon Blake. Bobby actually referred Flex-Deon to the producer Edward James, and secured the introduction of Flex-Deon to the adult industry. Bobby Blake has told the story of their relationship in his book, My Life in Porn.
  
  As a subject of Gay Studies
  The film Niggas' Revenge, and Flex-Deon Blake's role in it, have become the subject of academic discussion. In his book, Unlimited Intimacy: Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking, Tim Dean, a professor at the University at Buffalo, treats Niggas' Revenge in detail because of the way in which it fetishizes the simultaneous transgression of a number of taboos, all in order, Dean argues, to “conjure the transgressive charge of unprotected anal sex among gay men". The representation of interracial sex, rape, violence, and incest (between Chris Blake and Bobby Blake) is enhanced by what Dean calls Flex-Deon Blake's "phallicized" appearance.
  
  Autobiography: My Life in Porn
  Bobby Blake has written the book My Life in Porn: The Bobby Blake Story co-written by Blake and John R. Gordon and published by the Running Press of Philadelphia in 2008. In his autobiography, he talks extensively about his youth and experiences in the adult film industry. In one of the closing chapters entitled "Prodigal Returns", he depicts himself as the "prodigal son" who "had to leave [his] church and the place of [his] birth and go out there in the far country". He continues: "In all the years I was working in the adult entertainment business, I never turned my back on God or the Bible teachings I had grown up with." Blake emphasizes that he has no regrets about his lifestyle, interpreting it as part of God's plan for him: "Now that it's over, I can accept that that journey was all part of God's plan for me."
  
  Personal life
  Blake was the long-term partner of Flex-Deon Blake, another black gay pornographic actor.It was Bobby Blake who, by referring Flex-Deon to the producer Edward James, introduced his partner to the adult industry. Bobby Blake has told the story of their relationship in his book, My Life in Porn.
  
  Blake has written that despite being "known for being a gay porn-star, I define myself as bisexual...In fact I have dated women", although most of his serious romantic relationships have been with men.
  
  Ministry
  Since 2000, he has been an elder of Tabernacle Baptist Church in Atlanta.
  
  Bibliography
  Bobby Blake and John R. Gordon, My Life in Porn, Running Press Book Publishers, June 9, 2008, 280p. ()
  
  Partial filmography 
  Bobby Blake has appeared in 102 films. Among his best known are:
  
   Black Nubian Fantasies (1997)
   Goldie Locks and the 3 Bi Bears (1997)
   Bi Bi Black (1998)
   Black Bi Demand (1998)
   Get Hooked on This (1999)
   Black Ballers (1999)
   Black Ballers 2: Foul Play (1999)
   Black Power (1999)
   Black Workout 10 (2000)
   Bobby's Big Stick (2000)
   Hung Beach (2000)
   The Underboss (2000)
   Niggas' Revenge (2001)
   Black Sex Party #3 (2001)
   Black Sex Party #4 (2001)
   Black Bisexuality (2007)
  
  See also 
  
  List of male performers in gay porn films
  
  References
  
  Further reading
  
  External links
   
   
   
   Interview with Clay Cane (audio)
   Interview at Bananation
  
  1957 births
  Living people
  American actors in gay pornographic films
  African-American pornographic film actors
  African-American Baptist ministers
  Bisexual male pornographic film actors
  Male actors from Memphis, Tennessee
  Writers from Memphis, Tennessee
  Pornographic film actors from Tennessee
  Male pornographic film actors
  African-American LGBT people
  LGBT people from Tennessee
  21st-century African-American people
  20th-century African-American people
  21st-century American LGBT people