While on the road and dining (if that's the word) from Dumpsters, he tried to sell his gay erotica.
He has also made work based on gay male erotica.
As a younger man, he attended college for a while and wrote short fiction and gay erotica.
The foundation was also the first to exhibit the gay erotica of renowned commercial illustrator Bob Ziering.
What's erotic about gay erotica is the stranger and the strangeness, a complete lack of affection.
Slater was soon appearing in films by Wakefield Poole and other early producers of gay erotica.
In the 1980s and 1990s Barrus had published numerous articles and several novels of gay erotica under his own name.
From 1985 to 1992, he published five novels, four characterized as gay erotica.