Michael Stabile III (1974) is an American journalist and documentary filmmaker best known for his work in and about the sex industry. He is the director of Seed Money, a documentary about pioneering gay porn producer Chuck Holmes, of Falcon Studios. Stabile's written work on sex and sexuality has appeared in Playboy, The Daily Beast, BuzzFeed, and New York Times, among others.
In 2003, he became interested in the intersection of adult content and LGBTQ culture. He took over as editor of Gay Porn Blog and the producer of The Tim and Roma Show,[4] a web-based talk show about the gay adult industry.
In 2004, he and Jack Shamama co-created [5] the gay pornographic soap opera Wet Palms for which they won a GayVN Award for Best Screenplay. He has also written several other GayVN-nominated movies including Spokes III, Cross Country, and Master of the House. Two of the films were included in "Top 10 Gay Porn Movies of the Decade" by Gawker Media's Fleshbot [6] with credit given to the writing team of Stabile and Shamama.
In 2008, Stabile launched gay news site TheSword.com.[7] He was named "an arbiter of taste for gay porn" by the Village Voice.[8]
Film Work
Stabile's documentary short, Smut Capital of America premiered at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival on April 24, 2011.[9]
In 2015, his documentary Seed Money played over 50 festivals across the world and was acquired for distribution by Breaking Glass Pictures.[10]