Leo Sweetwood Talks Un-Drag Queen Pageants, and Being Openly Gay In the Marines

In a comfortably cozy apartment on New York’s Upper East Side lives a quadruple threat: up-and-coming twunk porn star, boy pageant aficionado, aspiring superstar and the U.S. Marine Corps’ first openly gay rifleman. He sings! He dances! He shoots! He cums! His name is Leo Sweetwood, and as we talk late Sunday night, I find it hard not to root for all his big city dreams to come true. Or at least, for him to find success in one of his three different pursuits. At the moment, though, my money’s still on him being a long-lasting porn star. He’s got a great dick — not big enough that the novelty will wear off eventually — and more importantly, he cums a lot. After starting as a top, then taking a year off to become a reservist in the Marine Corps, Sweetwood came back as a bottom in scenes for everyone from Bound in Public to Man Royale. Now he’s moving back towards topping, with scenes lined up at Cockyboys and other studios. As the night grew dark, Sweetwood and I sat for 45 minutes and talked about everything from boy pageants to boyfriends to teaching military men a thing or two about gay people.

Adam: You have brought me up to an area of Manhattan that’s terrified me for years.

Leo: The Upper East Side? Really?

Leo in Falcon's Alpine Wood
Leo in Falcon’s Alpine Wood Part 2
I was trying to figure it out on the way over, why. It’s perfectly nice in a way. There’s all sorts of food, and it’s close to the Whitney, but I think what it is is that when I was just coming out of college and I was looking for a place to live this area was the only area where you could find cheap rents, on the edge by the water here. I had this Beaches mentality, and thought going above 14th Street was a death sentence, so I never liked the idea I’d have to live up here.

Really? Wow. I like the Upper East Side because it’s nice and quiet. A lot of my friends live in Hell’s Kitchen, but then my friend Killian James, who’s now my roommate, said he lived on the Upper East Side, and I came to see the area and I found there’s a lot of amenities that I wouldn’t find anywhere else. The gym is one avenue over, and then my tanning’s a couple blocks down and then the place I go grocery shopping is one block over. Everything that I need is nearby. If I need to go to Hell’s Kitchen to hang with my friends, all I need to do is take a ten-dollar taxi or take the 6 to the E and I’m there. It’s far enough away so I can have my own space, but close enough if my friends say, “Hey we’re gonna go out in 30 minutes, can you be here?”, I can be there in 15.

So those three things — gym, tanning, friends — is that your routine?

It’s kind of the Jersey Shore thing — GTL. I like tanning because I like being one color. I don’t want to look like an Oompa Loompa but I want to have a nice base.

You do have a nice base.

I like the golden look, at least for me. So that’s one of the things in my regimen, that I like to do. Once you’re done tanning you just feel “aaahhh.”

So how much time do you spend in the gym?

I have to go to the gym at least a minimum of three to five times a week. I can’t go as much as Killian does. He’s literally addicted to the gym. He gets more endorphins out of it than I do. He loves the gym for that reason. It’s one of his big stress reliefs. He’s probably in the gym, if not every day, then at least twice a day. So he makes me feel like a fat ass.

Leo Sweetwood fucking Micah Brandt in Sit Tight 2 for Falcon.
Leo Sweetwood fucking Micah Brandt in Sit Tight 2 for Falcon.
Looking at you now, you’re not overly muscled. It doesn’t feel like you’re too shredded. But you’re more defined now when you started out. I just busted a nut to your first scene earlier, the Jocks one for Falcon with Micah Brandt.

I was so twinky then.

Right. How did you come to the decision move in the more muscled direction? I was talking about this with Levi Karter last week. Don’t you put yourself in danger as a young twink performer by pushing it too far with the workouts?

I like the in-between where I don’t want to be classified as a twink but I don’t want to be classified as a muscle bear. I think Davy Wavy came out with the name twunk. I like the in-between where I can get cast as both and it’s easier for me to maintain that type of body than trying to be shredded 24/7 and I can’t have a carb unless it’s the first Monday of the month. I would like to be able to be cast with twinks, but I want to be the bigger twink. I also want to be the little guy in Raging Stallion scenes with the Landon Conrads and the big muscle bears. I want to be able to cross into both worlds.

Are you looking for longevity in the industry?

Yes. I know everyone has their expiration date in the industry and I would like to prolong mine, and so if I can I’d like to stay in the industry an extra two-three years beyond when my expiration date is. But I’d like to be in it as long as I could. I don’t care if you’re Justin Bieber or Timberlake, eventually no ones’ gonna care who the fuck you are if you can’t change or reorganize your image.

Your name first came up when I was interviewing Rafael Alencar and he said you ran into him on the street.

Yeah, I ran into him the first time, because the first time I ever made my Rentboy account was at The Hookies. It was surreal to see all the porn stars and people I looked up to in the industry. I met Rafael and he was really kind. I also met Mr. Pam and Boomer Banks. I got to meet all these amazing people I looked up to. So that day I was walking to my friend’s house and I saw him and I was like, “Hey Rafael.” We took a picture and started talking.

Have you kept in touch?

Yeah. I would say we’re acquaintances but we haven’t really gone to lunch. We’ll go to events and talk and mingle. He’s a great guy. I have nothing bad to say about him. He’s one of the veterans of the industry and I really want to learn a lot from him. I’d like to go to lunch with him and pick his brain and find out what he’s done correctly and what he’s done wrong, and learn from his failures. He’s a really busy guy though, and I wouldn’t want to be a pest to anyone in the industry. Cause there’s a lot of pests and I don’t want that label.

Do you have a boyfriend? Is there room for a relationship in your life?

I’m not really looking for one right now. It would be great if it happened but it’s hard with the escorting. It’s hard to find someone that accepts you for what you do. If you can separate sex, love and everything in between it’s a great gift that you can give to someone. But a lot of people can’t differentiate between the two. If you’re having sex with someone they think it’s love. In the end of the night, I’m in the person that I genuinely care about’s bed. If I have sex with somebody else it doesn’t mean that I have love, compassion, kindness, and a sense of intimacy that I have with this other person. I ‘ve been focusing a lot on my career. You have to in the porn industry. I’m with Fabscout. Howard’s my agent. I’m not exclusive with them, but sometimes Howard does last minute things. He’s like, “I need you to be on a flight in two days. Can you do that?” and if I’m dating someone I might have an anniversary, or you’ve made plans with someone’s parents. A lot of times people can’t handle that. We’re dealing with a lot of people that don’t have this industry. I have an alternative lifestyle. I have to work around my client’s schedules and that doesn’t give me a lot of time to plan with someone else in an intimate setting.

Have you had challenges before with people?

I get a lot of love and intimacy from my friends so there’s no need to have one person lock me into a relationship. I like the way Boomer states it. “Just love, whatever it is, love. Get your intimacy, your love, your kindness, your comfortability, your respect, from your friends. That’s the initial place you can find your love.” Especially in the gay industry a lot of our families reject us. We’re lucky because we get to pick our families.

Right but it’s like that with gay people at large, not just people who work in porn.

That’s the thing I love about the gay community. We live an alternative lifestyle that fits our comfortability. In the porn and escorting industry, now it’s not a secret anymore. You could say, “I work as an escort.” And it’s like saying, “I work at a bank.” It’s not that scandalous anymore.

They both involve large involve large sums of money, and both jobs require you to be greedy whores. Just kidding!

Yes! Ha! Money hungry.

Leo Sweetwood getting bukkake'd for Bound In Public.
Leo Sweetwood getting bukkake’d for Bound In Public.

Did you need to make your own family because your family doesn’t support what you do?

I actually had a really good childhood. I didn’t have an abusive father or a bad mom. But they were very corporate and that wasn’t the lifestyle I wanted. I wanted to do something in the entertainment industry. Porn was one of the things that always intrigued me. I want to do porn as long I can but when I’m not I’d like to explore different avenues. The way Katie Morgan did. She did her porn and then did a series called Having Sex, and then she ended up in Seth Rogen’s movie Zack and Miri Make a Porno. I’d like to do something like that where people know I have a porn background, but also know I can act. “He can sing, and dance. He’s an entertainer.” That’s where I think people get caught up – “Oh he just does porn?” At the end of the day porn is not just sex, we’re entertainers, acting 99 percent of the time in our scenes.

I’ll play devil’s advocate. Most people know that it’s very hard to make the crossover from porn to mainstream. When you started doing it, did you consciously think it was a realistic path from one to the other or was it a matter of necessity and then the entertainment goals came later?

In middle school I had a time capsule and it just got sent to me a month or two ago and it actually had a note from a friend who said that I talked about doing porn. That was in middle school. I think it’s always been there. I always wanted to do porn. I’ve wanted to do this for a while and I know I can branch out. Steve Harvey said, “Be so good you can’t be ignored.” You can ignore me all you want, but if I provide all you want at the end of the day — a script, a dancer, an extra for Broadway, I’m gonna do my best to get that part because I have something to prove, since you think I can’t do it.

Do you go on auditions?

I’m starting to actually! I have a little dance background because I do boy pageants, and especially in New York, I have more opportunities here. I go to the Broadway Dance Center and take two to three classes a week. That’s what’s going to set me apart from other people. Growing up in San Antonio we don’t have those opportunities. Being here and being 22 and have these opportunities, if you don’t take advantage of them, there’s no way you’re going to stand out in any audition. That’s why I moved to New York, and that’s why I’m taking advantage of every opportunity I can.

What on earth are boy pageants?

Do you know Miss USA and Miss America? It’s basically that for guys. There’s three top pageants. Continental. E.O.Y: Entertainer of the Year, and US of A, so those three pageants have a Miss competition for drag queens and pre-op transsexuals, and the mister is for guys impersonating guys. There’s a little section called “Mister” which is for drag kings. It’s a national thing. It’s been going on since maybe the sixties or seventies.

When you said boy pageants I thought it was something you did as a kid. How did you get into this?

In each drag house there’s a mother, like in Paris is Burning. In Texas there’s the House of Andrews, notorious for Tandee Andrews, Erica Andrews and Roxxy Andrews who was on RuPaul’s Drag Race. I belong to the Matthews House. My drag mother is Tersa Matthews. She won Miss Texas US of A and Miss Texas Continental, and what I like about her is she doesn’t care. She doesn’t give a fuck about really anything except trying to make people laugh. Her entertainment comes from comedy. She can lip-synch a song and she can dance the house down, but she’s amazing as an entertainer and that’s what I want to eventually be.

But you want to do this as a boy, not in drag?

Yes. She had a son, Jordan Matthews, and his thing is dancing and stuff like that. He had a son, Javi Matthews, who is my dad. He does ballet, and tries to do more sentimental songs. He is known for doing this Black Swan routine to one of Adam Lambert’s song. He tries to make the crowd cry.

What’s your act?

I prefer to sing. When I have to lip-synch, I’ll paint a mug. I have a “gay devil mix.” So I’ll be with all red hands and wearing a black soon, horns, and a devil face. I do this funny mix. I’m known for that. I’m known more for comedy.

Have you won any competitions?

I was Mr. Texas Continental and this year I gave it up to my dad, and he is now the current reigning Mr. Texas Continental. I’m going back to Continental this year for the national title because I was the runner up for All-Star Continental in Florida.

What’s your act this year?

I’ll be singing. It’s an original song. I sang it for my final night and I’ll be singing, probably the same song.

So this is kind of a two-pronged path for you. Boy un-drag queen and porn star.

Yep. Leo Sweetwood and another name which I compete under.

What is your favorite musical?

I’ve actually only seen two. I’m very uncultured in New York. I’m trying to get more cultured. I’ve only seen Matilda and Wicked. I loved Wicked and I saw it with one of my friends and I made the stupid comment, “Are they singing live?” I didn’t know because they were just belting it out and it was so perfect and it sounded like a CD or something like that. My friend was like, “Yes, you’re retarded.” Coming from San Antonio, we don’t get to experience all the Broadway shows.

It’s all-new to you. Do you have a lot of moments where you say things and your friends go “Oh honey, you have a lot to learn?”

Well especially in New York. I understand I’m uncultured.

I’m not throwing shade at all. Just asking.

Oh, I understand it. It’s like taking someone from the South and showing them a whole new life and that’s what I love about New York. That’s why I moved here. I’m wanting to learn everything I can. I don’t mind if you think I’m stupid or something like that. I’m still learning and I know I’m learning. Those Broadway productions are the same thing that goes into the pageants. So I can use what I know from one in the other.

I think that’s great, honestly.

If anyone in the industry has a critique I would love to hear it as long as it comes from a loving place, its fine. If you’re insulting me in a mean way, we’re going to have a mean issue. Like Howard, he’s very blunt, but I understand the way he is and I respect it. A lot of people in New York are very blunt and if you don’t have a tough skin it comes off as insulting. But if you take what they’re saying with a grain of salt and realize these people aren’t trying to hurt you or insult you, they’re trying to help you better yourselves because a lot of them see potential in other people.

Tell me about how your escorting is going? It’s only been a few months.

I feel like I have one of the best jobs in the world. I get to provide intimacy, comfort, kindness, compassion and most of all love to all of the clients I see. Most of people have an obscure view of escorting. They think it’s dirty and raunchy and underground. That’s not what escorting is. Escorting is about being with someone for the pleasure and it all comes down to love and that’s what a lot of people don’t get. In New York you have a lot of older businessmen who work 80 hours a week and they just want someone to come and 90 percent of the time it’s not sex. They just want to have someone there. My clients want to just have dinner and go see a show.

This is the fabled thing that I never believe really happens.

A lot of people don’t really know how to attract what you put out. Whatever you put out in the world you’re gonna get out ten times. My roommate, he has a different clientele, and then my other friend Eli has a different clientele. So it’s all about what you’re best suited for. I feel my best attribute is, that I provide “The Boyfriend Experience” for lack of a better term.

leo-sweetwood-2When did you know you had a big dick?

When I got my first blowjob, the guy said, “Oh my god, you’re huge.” But when I got into porn I realized, “Oh my god, I’m average.” I’ve seen Boomer Banks and Landon Conrad, I mean you look at them and you’re like, “Oh my god.” I’m comfortable with my size unless I’m in a scene, anything after 9 inches I’ll hand a peanut because I can’t do anything with it. I feel like my size is good, and I’m comfortable with the length and girth and all that.

You were a top at first and then became more of a bottom.

Well my first scene was with Falcon, with Micah Brandt, before I left for the Marine Corps in 2012, and I think they initially thought I was bigger, muscle-wise, and when I got there I looked twinkier. We had a good scene and I got great feedback about it, which I was happy about, but then when I came back from the Marine Corps, I got typecast as a bottom and now I’m slowly getting cast as a top, because they know I can perform as a top. It’s easy for me to stay hard, to cum, and I naturally cum a lot. So I think a lot of companies are coming to me now asking, “Can you top in this scene?” because they need a good cumshot. Anyway, I really like performing as a top, and in real life I am a top. I can still find comfort in being a bottom and I play a good bottom in porn.

What prompted your decision to join the Marine Corps?

Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell was repealed in 2011. September 2011 and I always wanted to do a military branch but I wouldn’t have done it unless I could be 100% myself. In San Antonio the Air Force is really big. My real dad was in the Air Force, so I was always pulled towards there. So I went to the Marine Corps and asked if they had a reservist program. Because I didn’t want to do it for four years. And they said we do have positions in the reservist because right now we’re closing down and the war’s over and we’re not really doing any more active listings, so we have an opening for an infantry rifleman. I was like that sounds fun. And they broke down what I would be doing. I left for boot camp in May 2012. During boot camp I actually didn’t realize but I was actually the first openly gay infantry rifleman in the US. Marine Corps. They didn’t ask me if I was gay, because Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell was repealed and they didn’t know how to handle the situation. So during boot camp I had to talk to a lot of officers to make sure my stay was okay and I wasn’t being treated any differently. A lot of the people in my unit had never met a gay person, so I had to teach a lot of them. I didn’t mind it. It was very repetitive but I knew I was doing more good than I would if I said, “Shut the fuck up, I don’t want to tell you.”

What did they ask?

“How do you know you want to be gay?” The biggest misconception is gays want to be women. They thought I wanted to be a drag queen or a transsexual.

You’re like, “No I’m a boy impersonating a boy, Mister Texas Continental.”

Right! They were like, “You’re not attracted to women?” I was like, “No I think women are gorgeous I just don’t want to have sex with them.” I was like, “When you see an Abercrombie and Fitch guy you think he’s good looking right?” They were like, “Yeah.” “But you don’t want to have sex with him right?” “No.” But I still had some conflict in the military with regards to my Christianity. I wanted to talk to chaplains, and one was trying to get me to go Exodus, which is the conversion therapy, and I was like, “Are you fucking kidding me?” He was like, “We see your parades have go-go boys dancing on floats?” I was like, “You have the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders dancing on your floats, whats the difference?” He tried to break apart the differences. I’ve read the Bible and I know the seven verses in the Bible that depict homosexuality, and he was trying to read those back to me, and I was like, “You’re missing the Leviticus laws, how can you apply this to me, but you’re not applying all these others that say you can’t wear different types of clothing made of the same material, and you can’t eat shellfish?” And he didn’t know how to answer that. We were there for three hours and dealing with it. I think I gave him a different perspective and I’m glad that I could give an officer something like that, especially as a recruit in basic boot camp. Once everyone in my unit realized I didn’t want to fuck them they were cool with me. They would joke and make me rate their hotness. “Why does he get a higher score than I do?” It’s funny, once you pass the fear of not knowing, a lot of people fear what they don’t know, once you get past all that people start learning and exploring and accepting. That’s what I feel like you should do, especially in the gay community. Go teach someone.

Well you’ve certainly taught me a lot these past forty-five minutes. Thank you, Leo.

 

Watch Leo in a recent Bound In Public scene below.

 

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Adam Baran is a filmmaker, blogger, former online editor of Butt Magazine and co-curator of Queer/Art/Film. His short film JACKPOT, about a porn-hunting gay teen, won Best Short Film at the Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, and was recently featured on The Huffington Post, Queerty, and Towleroad, among others. He is a features programmer at Outfest Los Angeles LGBT Film Festival and NewFest in New York. In his spare time, he complains about things to his friends. “Fisting for Compliments”, his weekly musings about the intersection of sex, art, porn, and history, will appear every Monday on TheSword. You can contact him at Adam@TheSword.com and follow him on Twitter at @ABaran999. Check out his previous columns in the Fisting For Compliments Archive.

69 thoughts on “Leo Sweetwood Talks Un-Drag Queen Pageants, and Being Openly Gay In the Marines”

  1. he must have had only female friends growing up. it’s not hot. he can act however he wants and i accept him, it doesnt mean his voice and mannerisms make me hard. it dissapointing to a man who appeciates masculinity. if i wanted to see a girl i would watch one. porn is suppost to be sexy. a “top” with a bubbly tranny personality, to me, is not :( nothing about me hating myself or gays… just a preference for my porn.

  2. It’s sad when gay men have internalized heteronormative values to the point they disparage other gay men for being too fem. Really pathetic!

    1. It’s really just some gay men which really comes down to preferences although the way they express it seem “disparaging.” And a few actually do disparage those they perceive as “too fem.” This is the male of the species whatever the orientation!

      1. I understand your point. My point is being gay isn’t about fitting into a box. Isn’t that the point of the struggle for acceptance of LGBTQ people? We want the right to be who we are. It doesn’t help when their are those who are supposed to be our brothers and sisters in arms are the most critical of those who they deem unacceptable in some way.

        1. Not everyone can or chose to see sexuality through a political lens gay or not. As long as they don’t vote against their interests or try to be a spokesperson for us gays(15 min of fame), I won’t want to twist their nuts in a vice!

          1. As I stated, I understand your point. However, my perspective is different and has nothing to do with politics. You have many strong opinions but may want to consider respecting other people’s space to express their own without attacking them. I’m referring to some of your previous comments.

          2. My attacking comments are? When you comment that’s your “space.” No one has limited it! And yes your statement is political, not negative, though I could have characterized it as a “strong opinion!” I personally see things from your perspective, others don’t. Your comments, given how you characterized mine was of the “strong opinion” kind as others you have made. So it’s the pot calling the kettle black.

          3. I believe what he is referring to is the way that you state your opinion which comes off as very rude and attack like.

          4. Well, thank God neither one of you is our president if “very rude” and “attacking” is what you get from my comments. I was simply making a point that many people, gay as well, aren’t political/advocate types and don’t see their sexuality through that lens like “pornfreak” or myself. How you get “very rude” and “attacking” is beyond me. I will say that I “attacked” someone is a “strong opinion!”

          5. You miss understand me, I do not believe that you attacked me or any else. What I was saying is the way you state your opinions could be read as attacking/is bit on the rude side. Thats all I meant, not that you were attacking. I guess the best way to put it is you could be a bit more tactful in stating your opinions(then again compared to some these comments you have been very tactful).

  3. I don’t get the Leo hate. Like with all interviews everyone is trying to paint a picture and unless the interviewee is feeling particularly open or the interviewer is asking the right questions and willing to dig you get empty, hollow interview.

    I enjoy Leo and it’s interesting to see the beginnings of his formation. I’d like to see more fan interaction and get a better sense of his personality

        1. I think you mean masculine bottoms but anyway I never said I was a masculine top or bottom or feminine. I’m me and don’t need box category like feminine or masculine, some stuff I like would be considered fem and some mas but who is to say what is fem or mas anyway? If you feel the need to put me into a box i’ve been told i’m an average dude so check in to what ever box. As far topping or bottoming i’m versatile and enjoy both pretty equal with some variant depending on the guy i’m with.

          1. My comment wasn’t intended to put you in a “box,” you did that yourself by labeling yourself “VERSATILE!” However, the words, “fem,” “masc,” wouldn’t be used by YOU or anyone else if there wasn’t some criteria to give them value like “day” and “night” and “VERSATILE!” That being said, “masc,” “fem,” “top,” “bottom,” “VERSATILE” are cultural concepts/ constructs that for humans communications and describe behavior – sexual behavior. They help us communicate our needs and desires. It would be extremely difficult to post comments without them. My box: I’m a pseudo-masculine “BOTTOM” for a masculine, passionate, not versatile “TOP who is pleasured by my “feminine” qualities!

          2. I’ve never considered top or bottom etc as a box but simply as a sexual position. Now you say you want a non versatile top, you do realize that all being versatile means is that you are open to doing either right? So you could very well date a versatile guy who prefers to top/never expects you to top. One finale note lay of the exclamation marks.

    1. So fucking what? I’m masculine and love to get fucked just as much as I love to fuck. Just because he is fem doesn’t mean he doesn’t love to fuck.

      1. Maybe they equate “fem” top with a “trannie?” A bottom would most likely not find that appealing. I suspect, however, will allow you to still be “prince charming” even when your legs are behind your ears!

          1. Well you’re the ignorant one not all Christian people were like that. We the Catholic, I mean those straight one are now beginning to understand that we gay should be respected, Pope Francis said it many times. Maybe you’re pertaining to the other groups like Mormons.

          2. Don’t get it twisted, isn’t for you. Either way, until he stop kissing the feet of prisoners and deal with the pedophiles and child rapist in the Vatican and all Catholic spaces, he continues to be window dressing for the corruption going on behind the scenes. Jesus wasn’t Catholic, so you can fill you God card elsewhere!

          3. Jordi I never said all christians were like that, but a good majority in America are. Yes some christians understand that we are just people who deserved the same rights etc but a good major still think of us as less then human and denying that just because you subscribe to said religion does not help you or your community. As far as your beloved pope he has said we should be treated with respect but that we are still very much an abomination and committing a sin just by being, so I suggest you stop picking and choose what parts of his to quote.

            Denying a problem exists doesn’t make it go away.

            Also you do realize it’s possible to love god and not worship the pope with out question right?

          4. Read my comment again. Backwards may help! Christians aren’t ignorant, per se, but there are many ignorant ones. The problem I have is when they confuse fact, fiction, and beliefs. And, no, I don’t get the comparison since you didn’t read my comment as written!

          5. @JJ Do you really want me to use Google in your deep english like “bigotry” and now “abomination”? I wasnt worshipping the Pope but I respected him coz he deserved to be respected, so sincere, so down to earth human being. I couldnt wait for him visiting us next year.

          6. Jordi Abomination is not deep english, it is used very regularly in your believed bible. A man who thinks you are sining just by being deserves to be respected? Wow you have a warped mind.

        1. I don’t like getting fucked on my back, I prefer to site on dick when I bottom. Either way what happens in bed doesn’t affect me being thebh one who opens the door or pulls his chair out etc.

          1. Why because you will feel too much like a “fem” on your back or not feel “in control” with your toes to the ceiling? For me, I just wouldn’t like my prince charming taking my position, then I would feel like a lesbian, not that there’s anything wrong with lesbians.

          2. I said I don’t prefer it not that I don’t do it. If I’m with a guy fem or not and he wants to top and he wants me to lay on my back I will. I prefer other positions because they feel more pleasurable. When I’m on my back it’s less pleasure and it hurts my back a bit due to a back injury.

            If you don’t like fem tops etc it’s pretty simple don’t date one.

  4. I just watched a couple of his Vine videos and he is a big queen I guess being in the Marines has not rubbed off much on him.

  5. I swear this kid looks exactly like a guy in my gym. When I first saw Leo, I seriously thought it was my guy from the gym, who I have a big crush on.

  6. Rare for me, but I’m lost for words! Okay, I think I found my head. I am baffled by his reported military experience (99% of it!!!) having serviced 10 years active and currently provide professional services on a major marine base; How do you spell gullible: “… the first openly gay infantry rifleman in the US. Marine Corps!” All the porn that marines have been doing, for at least the last 30 years or more, and most during the last 10, they are in no way as naive as he reports – gullible again. How does the saying goes? Oh yeah, “just pulling his chain.” Pun intended! I do wonder if he completed his contracted tour of duty; and whether or not he received an “honorable” discharge. Puzzling that he wasn’t asked and didn’t mention any of the “curious” sex requests/conquests?

    There’s a difference between being “a top” and “topping!” Him being a “Christian,” whatever that means today; giving “love” as an “escort;” the vile imaginary of that “bondage” scene; the whole go-go boy drag pageant queen scene; etc., etc. etc. Don’t get the “twunk” thing? I just “see” this young, bright, full of wonderment, misguided kid with a lot of concern for his psychological well-being!

        1. this chaotic ramble

          “There’s a difference between being “a top” and “topping!” Him being a “Christian,” whatever that means today; giving “love” as an “escort;” the vile imaginary of that “bondage” scene; the whole go-go boy drag pageant queen scene; etc., etc. etc. Don’t get the “twunk” thing? I just “see” this young, bright, full of wonderment, misguided kid with a lot of concern for his psychological well-being!”

          1. Precisely! This is how I perceive his inner world, therefore, the concern for his psychological well-being. I read this interview (by default) from a parental and a gay youth (14-25) wellness advocate and clinician, not as a fan.

  7. BUT HE IS A FUCKING WOMAN. PURSES FALL OUT OF HIS MOUTH. IT’S NOT HOT, IT’S CREEPY. HE IS LIKE A BUFF CHRIS CROCKER. NO!

    1. “HE IS A FUCKING WOMAN”

      I see no Vagina, do you? What was that? No I didn’t think so. I don’t care if an entire department store falls out of his mouth he is hot and actually gay. So keep your self hating bigoted mouth shut.

    2. There is something wrong with you. He clearly has no problem with who he is. You might want to ask yourself why YOU have an issue with the way he is.

  8. I follow him on twitter and no regret. He’s really a nice guy and very sensible. I was surprised knowing he’s a top in real life, I guess coming from military makes someone more manly. We’re both Christian but proud gay and yes the Bible was incomplete according to St. Peter ( San Pedro ) I guess gay acceptance was really in there. I hope he’ll find a guy that accepts him like what happened to Liam Magnuson.. YES he’s a pornstar/escort, but having sex w/o love to people off camera/work bothers me for him. Anyway, this is an awesome interview to get info from our fave models. SALAMAT!

    1. Right because being a top = masculine and being a bottom = feminine. when you finally have sex, please let me know which position you choose.

      1. -Siguro bottom ako pero di ako effeminate tignan. Di pako nahalikan, kaya imposible na makipag-sex ako agad. Sana dumating na yung lalaki para sa akin.

        -Hmm I would be a bottom although Im not effeminate. I’ve never been kissed yet so the sex thing was kinda impossible for now. I hope that guy will come soon.

    2. I guess you not just Bi ignorant, your LGBTQ ignorant completely. So here let me explain masculinity and femininity have nothing to do with topping or bottoming and a fem man can be either and same for a masculine one. The act it self is neither manly or womanly but simple a sexual act. Also plenty of men are versatile and will do both. God you have a lot of learning to do.

        1. 1. I’m an out proud gay man, so how am I gay bashing?
          2. I’m not bashing you, i’m educating you.
          3. How am I ignorant? Everything I stated is true fact.

          1. @JJ Thanks for educating me and please stop this arguing ok?
            @Adam Baran I enjoyed reading your article but please stop being rude. Yes I maybe ignorant with this so what are you happy now?

          2. Jordi i’m sorry you feel that i’m arguing with you, i’m not trying to. Whether you like it or not your a member of the LGBTQ community and with the rampant ignorance spread by bigots we can’t afford ignorance from our own community. So when you say something ignorant i’m going to correct you.

          3. to each his own whatever opinion I gave its my prerogative as a PROUD gay man myself, you and this interviewer, who only started to embarassed me when I said his vine model interview was his worst.

          4. “to each his own whatever opinion I gave its my prerogative as a PROUD gay man myself”

            That’s just it it’s not opinion it’s facts, that you are very wrong and ignorant on. You may be a proud gay man but you lack basic facts about your own community.

  9. Another excellent interview, Mr Baran. Thank you for this series – I learn something new every week.

    Sweetwood comes across as a thoroughly pleasant, down-to-earth man – I see exactly why he’d be perfect for the Boyfriend Experience. But boy pageants…? Mind blown!

  10. I skipped over everything and had to read about the Marine Corps as that was going to interest me the most in this interview.

    Definitely love his experience of explaining it to people, and honestly that’s all it really is, people are curious and have questions about homosexuality, and we shouldn’t feel angry or agitated or nervous about asking those questions, no matter how ridiculous they may sound.

    1. His roommate Killian James swears up and down that he doesnt do bareback yet his cam shows are just that. bareback. I wonder if this guy would’ve said the same thing. No bareback question about the industry? :(

      1. so did you want me to ask his roommate Killian James, who wasn’t there a question about bareback sex? let me hop in my time machine. or did you want me to ask Leo a question that frankly, I’m tired of asking every single person. So far I haven’t seen him have bareback sex and so nothing indicated I needed to ask about it. sorry the discussion wasn’t your cup of tea, hopefully next week i’ll interview someone you can get real fired up over.

        1. I’m sensing a bit of hostility there. Porn interviews tend to be very “paint by numbers” which is why it’s odd that that question was missing.
          The military bit was the only interesting bit as it offers insight into something not all of us are familiar with but curious about.

          1. so you are saying next time i should ask all the expected questions and be more paint by numbers since you didn’t think the interview was good because I didn’t do that?

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