Friday, December 13, 2024

Death of a Freak

 October is celebrated as “LGBTQ+ Liberation Month” on the campus of the University of Rhode Island [URI], and as part of that celebration in 2023, URI’s Gender and Sexuality Center hosted an “OnlyFans Entrepreneur Panel” featuring Apollo Moon. Let us pause here to ask an important question: “WTF? A state university is sponsoring panel discussions to encourage students to be ‘entrepreneurs’ on OnlyFans?” What next? “How to Support Your Meth Addiction as a Hooker”?

Leaving aside questions about the lunacy taking hold in academia, what about “Apollo Moon”? Turns out that “he” was a woman originally named Hannah Lynn Harader, who had undergone transgender treatment (mastectomy and testosterone) to become a “trans male porn performer.” Being a journalist, curiosity is a career requirement, so I felt compelled to investigate exactly what “Apollo Moon” did to pay the bills. You should probably hit my tip jar to compensate me for the psychological trauma of seeing it. Why anyone would enjoy watching that — let alone pay to watch it — is a profound mystery, but then I remember that nearly 75 million Americans voted for Kamala Harris, and it’s somewhat less mysterious. In a nation of 335 million people, where everybody’s got access to the Internet, it’s not actually difficult to find an audience of several hundred people who are into whatever kink or fetish you’re peddling, so that “Apollo Moon” could probably collect a few thousand a month as a “trans male porn performer.” The idea that this made her an “enterpreneur” who should be featured in a panel discussion at a public university — well, why not just go down to the nearest truck stop and find some “lot lizards” to tell your students about enterpreneurship?


R.I.P., Apollo Moon, who died last week at age 26, probably by suicide, according to Andy Ngo. “Apollo”/Harader had recently decided to quit “his”/her career as a porn performer, and had a lot of social-media posts about “his”/her personal problems, as @TTExulansic exposed at length.


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