Let’s Chat With Tim Murphy, Founder of The Caftan Chronicles Interview Series With Gay Men “Of a Certain Age”
Recently, we’ve been loving Substack’s The Caftan Chronicles, NYC-based novelist and journalist Tim Murphy’s monthly very loooong and deeeeep interviews with notable gay men “of a certain age” (usually 60 or older) about, well, every single aspect of their lives, from their public career and persona to their private hopes, dreams, fears, and regrets.
I don’t want to just do a play-by-play of someone’s greatest hits; I’m very interested in how we as gay men see and understand our own lives, how we divide them into chapters, how we learn about ourselves on all levels—sexually, socially, intellectually, artistically. You may help us to build the dating records for Tom Chase!
Facts & Trivia
Tom Ranked on the list of most popular Pornographic Actor.
Chase was intimately involved with professional actor of adult movies Joe Cade; they had an official ceremony to commit in 1998, but they later split at a mutually agreeable point. Tom weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.
Who is Tom Chase Dating?
According to our records, Tom Chase is possibily single & has not been previously engaged.
He often performed as the top performer, however his debut as a bottom during 1997’s California Kings would win him an GayVN Award and a Gay Erotic Video Award.
Height, Weight & Body Measurements
Tom Chase height Not available right now. Tom Chase celebrates birthday on March 6 of every year.
# Tom Chase
tom chase (born March 6, 1965) is an American gay pornographic film actor who was active in the 1990s and 2000s.
They have amazing stories to tell and I wanted to help get some told before it’s too late. And check out and follow Tim Murphy on Instagram.
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Calculated from 1st and 3rd party data. == Biography == Chase was raised in Highland Park, Texas.He relocated from Granbury, Texas and later Dallas before returning to the adult entertainment sector in 2006 to work as Model at Colt Studios, where he was in films with more of a bear-like and hirsute appearance.
Tom Chase Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Pornographic Actor |
| House | Living in own house. |
Tom Chase is one of the richest Pornographic Actor from United States.
Instinct: So you have a $5/month fee to read the entire interview.
These interviews are a record of what it was to be a gay man in the U.S. in an often very hostile time, amidst a plague, and well before gay people were as integrated into mainstream life as they are now. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. I am only passionately curious, and I listen to podcasts. ‐ Albert "Llamacorn" Einstein
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I put a lot of time into showing someone my work and letting them know what kind of questions I want to ask and getting them to trust me and understand that we don’t have to talk about anything they don’t want to talk about. It’s a labor of love. It’s a very intimate and probing look at the lives of older gay men at a time when such lives, with all their ups and downs—the homophobia of the 20th century, the tension between the closet and living openly, AIDS and its aftermath—are often being forgotten as we focus more on the younger, up-and-coming generations of queer people, including trans and nonbinary folks.
Tim’s most recent interview (for October) is with longtime drag queen and porn producing legend Chi Chi LaRue (who talks honestly about her lifelong desire to be popular and her own take on a 2020 sexual assault allegation from porn actor Papi Suave), but in the past year, he’s also interviewed legendary novelist Andrew Holleran (“Dancer from the Dance”), pioneering 1970s disco DJ Nicky Siano, 90s and 2000s porn god Tom Chase (who is nearly 60 but wants to make more porn), groundbreaking 1990s NYC AIDS doctor Gabriel Torres, choreographer David Rousseve and the last remaining producer of “Emerald City TV,” a late-seventies NYC weekly cable show about gay life at the height of the disco era.
We chatted a bit with Tim about The Caftan Chronicles, which is $5/month for full access, even though he usually puts about the first third of his interviews in front of the paywall.
Instinct: Hi, Tim!
How did you come up with this idea?
Tim: Well, I’ve been a journalist for nearly 30 years, mostly on LGBTQ stuff, and I really just wanted to have a platform that was all my own with no editors, where I could do a really long, deep interview that unfolded like a real conversation, sometimes jumping around in time.
He writes about the gay life cycle, especially middle and late age, with such melancholy that it’s actually gorgeous. And I loved doing the “Emerald City TV” interview because somehow I’d had no idea that this show had existed, but once I found the episodes archived on YouTube, I could not stop watching—it’s truly about as close to going back to pre-AIDS gay New York as you’ll get.
Instinct: Is there a commonality to the interviews?
Tim: When I reach out, I tell everyone up front that I want extreme openness, honesty and self-reflection, and thankfully that’s what I’ve gotten, although of course it varies from person to person.
Chase was interviewed by the documentary from 2015 Seed Money: The Chuck Holmes Story that follows his life as Falcon Studios founder Chuck Holmes.
Chase worked frequently alongside directors John Rutherford and Chi Chi Larue at Falcon and was featured in the music video directed by Larue of “I Am a Pig” by 2wo the part-time venture from Judas Priest lead singer Rob Halford.
We’re a generation of gay men who really had to make it up for ourselves without the pre-ordained pathways of legal marriage or having children or even being able to be our whole selves everywhere we go—at least until recently—and I think we’ve shown incredible bravery, resilience and creativity in how we’ve gone about constructing our lives, our sense of family, our sense of romance and intimacy.
Instinct: Who’s up next?
Tim: I hope to get a real legend of the New York theater who is coming up on 80, but it takes time.