Queer OnlyFans Stars Share Life Lessons While Modeling Fendi
| 08/26/22
Queer OnlyFans Stars Share Life Lessons While Modeling Fendi
There's more to OnlyFans stars than their videos. In this fashion feature, Logan Stevens (Kyle Kupres), Reign, Shamu Azizam, and Sharok give love to their city of Los Angeles while showing off Fendi Mens Fall Winter 2022. The content creators also share life lessons and how they pursue their creative passions. Learn their stories below.
Creative Director Ben Ward@_benjaminward_
Photographer Nicolas Wagner@nicolaswagnerphoto
Stylist Kenn Law@kennlaw
Grooming Jose Antonio Figueroa @josefigz
Casting Kyle Kupres @kylekupres
Photo Assistant David Zimmerman@davidgzimmerman
Location Angela Kohler@angelakohler
All clothing and accessories Fendi Mens
Reign
When did you start being an OnlyFans/JustForFans creator?
I originally created an OnlyFans account in 2020 but didn't really use it. In April of 2021, I decided to really put effort into running my account, which lead me to studio porn and becoming a Falcon exclusive. I initially did this just to make a little money on the side. I had no idea I would take off like I did and become this big in the industry.
How would you define your brand?
I feel like, being a queer POC in this industry, I have to hold myself to a higher standard. So I try to always give 100 percent and put out quality work because people care. There's not much Black representation in mainstream porn, so I have to be on my A game. I feel like POCs everywhere, especially in our community, have to go 10 times harder when we do anything. And when people subscribe to me, they can see that in my work.
What's an important life lesson you've learned from your work?
An important life lesson I've learned in this work is really to know yourself and to always put yourself first. You wouldn't think it, but this industry is tough physically and mentally. People will try to coerce you into doing things that aren't you, and you have to be strong enough to say no and not allow anyone to change you.
What are your other creative passions?
My other creative passion is art. Whether it be drawing or photography, even poetry, I love art in many forms.
Tell us how Los Angeles impacts you creatively.
Los Angeles honestly is a whole vibe. Some of the people can get in the way of that, but others can really inspire you to really go hard. I moved here from Florida, and now I'm on the fence about moving back because there is so much here. A lot of people told me when I got here to not let L.A. change me, but I feel like it has in a positive way. I have never been so ambitious in my life, and I feel like coming here brought that out of me.
What's next for you?
I don't really know what's next to be honest. I do know that I plan on transitioning out of the industry. Porn and content creating has been great, and I'm thankful for every experience and opportunity it's brought me, but is not really for me. I've met some amazing people along the way, and no matter where life takes me, they will always be a part of my life. Although I don't know what's next, I'm prepared and ready for whatever life brings. Love that journey.
Reign
Instagram: @whosrushin
Twitter: @reign__forever
TikTok: @reign__forever
OnlyFans: @reign_forever
Sharok
Logan Stevens
Shamu Azizam
When did you start being an OnlyFans/JustForFans creator?
I started in January 2020. I went on a road trip to several scenic places like Wyoming and Utah and began photographing myself nude in nature. Definitely was a kick-starter.
How would you define your brand?
Poetic, ecosexual.
What's an important life lesson you've learned from your work?
The tethering to my body and the natural world.
What are your other creative passions?
I love to move and dance, create noises and soundscapes.
Tell us how Los Angeles impacts you creatively.
My drag family and art hos have held me in a variety of spaces, always nurturing ideas of self and pulsing the importance of connectivity.
What's next for you?
Wanderlust.
Shamu Azizam
Reign
Logan Stevens / Kyle Kupres
When did you start being an OnlyFans/JustForFans creator?
I opened an account about halfway through 2018. I've always been a total exhibitionist and a very sexual person. (I honestly think everyone secretly is -- it's only whether they give themselves permission.) I had been hearing a bit about OnlyFans here and there on social media. I didn't think much of it until a friend told me how well he was doing on the platform, and I thought, "Goddamn, I better get on that!" For me, the idea of having total control over my own presentation and who I choose to work with is a radical, positive shift in the way we produce erotic entertainment. When I create a video, I focus on what feels natural and what comes naturally. Sex needs to be fun, it needs to be organic!
How would you define your brand?
I try to be as true to myself as possible and share all my passions and interests on various social media platforms, so there's something more to connect to. One of my friends says I've got a very earthy California surfer-bro and dad-goes-camping vibe. It's probably pretty accurate -- despite the fact that I'm no good at surfing. There's a big art and nature component to everything I do. Of course, these are the three things I care about most: Art, nature, sex.
What's an important life lesson you've learned from your work?
I think the biggest lesson is to learn how to be almost entirely fearless. Like, fear of judgement, fear of failure, fear of not being good enough -- you gotta mow right over that shit and plant your damn field! And do it now! You'll figure everything out as you go, and you'll keep getting better at it.
What are your other creative passions?
I'm completely obsessed with film photography. I have all these old cameras, and I develop the film myself at home. I try to shoot as much as I can, and photography is how I like to share my fantasies with the world. Porn is how I make it all possible. I also play the violin. I'm not all that great anymore, but I like to challenge myself and play as often as I can. If you follow me, you'll see a vid every so often of me playing. It's kinda like my own version of meditation because when I'm playing, there's absolutely nothing else happening in my head.
Tell us how Los Angeles impacts you creatively.
There is an amazing Joan Didion quote that kind of sums up L.A. for me. It ends by saying, "Things had better work here, because here, beneath that immense bleached sky, is where we run out of continent." Everything about California inspires me. The landscape is incredible. The people are fascinating. There's wildly bizarre contradictions everywhere. It's like the wild west never really died; we just got cell phones, Starbucks, global media, and plastic surgery. When you're at a naked party, floating in an infinity pool, hanging off the side of the Hollywood Hills with all of L.A. glittering below, but you might not make rent this month...in that moment, you'll know what I'm talking about.
What's next for you?
I'm always working on some plan or project. But if recent years have taught us anything, it's that we have absolutely no clue what the world could look like tomorrow.
Logan Stevens / Kyle Kupres
Instagram: @kylekupres
Twitter: @loganstevensxxx
OnlyFans: @loganstevensxxx
Logan Stevens, Sharok
Sharok, Shamu Azizam
Sharok
When did you start being an OnlyFans/JustForFans creator?
I started doing studio porn in late 2017 after an almost 20-year hiatus. OnlyFans and other sites like JustForFans, 4MyFans followed shortly thereafter. I always wanted to do porn, so when I got the opportunity again, I took it.
How would you define your brand?
I don't really think of myself as a brand but Persian, queer, and proud I guess. We don't have much positive representation in the community so it was important to always lead with authenticity and my ethnicity first. Showing people within the SWANA [South West Asian/ North African] community and beyond that we can be out, proud, sexual beings, and there's nothing wrong with it.
What's an important life lesson you've learned from your work?
If there wasn't a path set down for you, make your own. Carve it out, and don't take no for an answer. You'll thank yourself later.
What are your other creative passions?
Art, plants, animals, and travel. I recently started painting again and dabbling in photography. Keeping and growing plants and animals are one of those passions that have followed me into adulthood. I'm a horticulturist and former pigeon breeder at heart. Pigeon keeping, in particular, is a tradition passed down by my grandfather. It's very important to me.
Tell us how Los Angeles impacts you creatively.
I'm a first-generation L.A. native, born and raised. So I'd say the cultural diversity I grew up around. Particularly other communities of color. We make L.A., L.A.
What's next for you?
That's a funny question. With the lives I've lived, I didn't think I'd make it past 30 -- yet here we are, approaching 40, and I'm a porn star, so who the fuck knows. Maybe living out my daddy years on a ranch somewhere -- raising pigeons and painting my memories.
Reign
Logan Stevens
Shamu Azizam
Fendi Mens all clothing and accessories
This article is part of Out's September/October 2022 issue, out on newsstands August 30. Support queer media and subscribe -- or download the issue through Amazon, Kindle, Nook, or Apple News.
