Keith Griffith (activist)

Darrell Keith Griffith (1959–September 18, 2012) was an American gay activist, pornographic film producer,[1] writer, and webmaster.

[4] Advocating greater militancy, and confrontation with the state, medical establishment and pharmaceutical industry,[5] it became a lightning rod for activism.

"[7] The group's first action was a sit-in at the office of California Governor George Deukmejian, who had refused to sign a bill banning discrimination against people with AIDS.

[9] In 1993, together with activist, pornstar, and trust fund beneficiary Scott O'Hara, he founded the quarterly Steam magazine, which while focused on gay saunas, committed itself to celebrating “all kinds of sex, but especially public, publicly-disapproved, exciting sex.” In their association, O'Hara was an "all-in-one confidante, employer, and sometime lover...Both men approached sex as if it were their last meal.

"[3] Griffith rejected and objected to "the accelerated mainstreaming of gay male life" and its homogenisation, believing that identity categories "limit the fluidity of sex".

[14] It led to Griffith and the website being profiled by mainstream media,[15][16] particularly when police began using the site to arrest men in campaigns of entrapment.