October 22, 2006 | Porn Stars

A twink by any other name ...

"Who is Fox Ryder?" the tag line for Falcon's mega-release "Velvet Mafia" asks. Recognizing his adorable face and horse dick you may have easily guessed "Brent Corrigan," previously of Cobra Studios. But you'd only be partly right. 

You see -- if you can get your head around the idea of a porn star name being intellectual property -- the handle "Brent Corrigan" belongs to Cobra, as least according to a Pennsylvania court which recently granted a trademark to the studio. The bareback producer is loathe to let their ex-model continue to use the name and this week compelled the billing company Brent uses for his membership site, BrentCorriganOnline.com,  to stop processing for him.

In an emotional plea this week, Brent, who now goes by his legal moniker Sean Lockhart (which is, come to think of it, actually a pretty good porn name) retold his side of the vicious dispute between him and Cobra owner Brian Kocis. Sean accused Kocis of being a "child pornographer" because Kocis enticed him to appear in four Cobra titles while Sean was only seventeen. Kocis contends that Sean faked his proof of age documents.

As for the fate of his name, Sean told Jason Sechrest this week, “I'm not going to try to fool anyone into thinking another name is me … if I throw one more out there, that's four. There's no point."
 
And why, we wondered, did Falcon choose to cast a former bareback model who is mired in legal wranglings with his former studio to star in its biggest release of the year? Well, it seems that Sean's real life situation was the perfect fit for the parody of the gay porn world that is "Velvet  Mafia."

According to Falcon director Chris Steele, Sean "...  is the perfect Fox Ryder.  The movie is about rivalries between gay porn studios.  It parodies stereotypical situations, people, fights, romances and controversies that actually do happen in the gay porn industry. ...  Who Fox Ryder is in real life is the ultimate irony, as is who plays Mason Avalon [Paul Baressi] and Warren Starr [Chi Chi LaRue]."

So how many times is porn imitating life and back again here? In Brent/Fox/Sean's case it seems "Velvet Mafia" is more cinema verité than parody.  Here's wishing him a somewhat less stressed  life -- with the name he was born with.

• I tried my best [Brent Corrigan Online]
• Profile: Brent Corrigan [Just Us Boys Magazine]