History's 125 Hottest Gay-Porn Stars:

From: Boy Culture

 The real McCoy

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Kyle McKenna 

(Russell Charles McCoy)

1968—2000
Suicide

This hungry bottom—appealingly collegiate and clean-cut, yet quite the pig—first came to my attention via his role in Balls in Play (1993), a better-than-most baseball-themed movie. Loved his looks and his performance. He ground out movies over the next several years, making them like there was no tomorrow. In 2000, he committed suicide via drug overdose, ending what had apparently been an unhappy, short existence.

As with many of his peers, information regarding McKenna on the 'Net may or may not be true and is hard to verify; for example, it's repeated everywhere that he had been abused by his dad and an older brother and that his mom wouldn't claim his body when he died, and yet a credible-sounding guy who grew up around McKenna refutes at least some of that information in this interesting eulogy:

"I want to set the record straight as best I can. I don’t know if all the stories I've read about Russell since learning that he was a performer in gay porn under the name “Kyle McKenna” and that he killed himself back in 2000 came from his own mind or from the studios he worked for, but most of them are wrong, if not flat-out fabrications. If the former is true and Russell deliberately obfuscated his background, then I run the risk of offending his privacy (and Russell was a very private person), but if the latter is true, then Kyle numerous fans don’t know the truth about this man they adore. I worry also that the story about his family not claiming his body after he killed himself is also true and that this article will embarrass them or cause them pain, and I always liked his family. However, if the story is true, then my childhood impressions of them were completely wrong and they are horrible people for doing that to their son.I first learned that Russell was dead during my Christmas break in 2007. I was staying with my brother, and one idle night wondered vaguely what Russell was up to since I hadn't seen him since 1994. Yeah, that makes me a really horrible person, I know. But finding answers to vague questions is why the Good Lord invented Google in the first place, and its top entry was surprisingly from IMDB. When I followed the link I didn't believe what I was reading. People always talk about “cognitive dissonance”, but what I felt was as if I had gone momentarily stupid."