Time was when we used to run into the slabalicious Erik Rhodes on the Long Island Railroad while commuting from the recesses of deepest, darkest Queens (don't ask); little did we know that he may have been going to or coming from "work" at a now-defunct Long Island strip club. As he explains in a short but juicy piece in Paper Magazine, "I was dancing there. I never knew there were hot gay guys. So I started hooking up with all the dancers." Next thing he knew, he was approached by a Falcon rep and the rest is history: "I thought, 'Why not get paid to fuck hot guys?'" Don't ask us—we just get paid to write about them. -RM
· "Erik Rhodes is One Hot Beefcake!" (papermag.com)
Previously: Jason Adonis (Finally) Bottoms, Erik Rhodes Interview, DVD: Falcon's "Riding Hard", DVD: Falcon's "The Farmer's Son", Genre's Beefcake Moderne