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“I’m going to do what the fuck I want to do, when I
want to do it and how I want to do it.”
Zario Travezz says growing up as a biracial gay kid in a religious family
in Alabama was difficult—and that’s just the start of it.
“I really identify as black,” he shares. “The reason for that is because I
didn’t really know—or have as great a relationship—with the white side of
my family. I knew a couple of my uncles and their families, but everybody
else was gone out of my life because my mom married a black man,
and then she had biracial children.”
Travezz also learned that his maternal grandfather was in the KKK:
“He didn’t come around until I was like 14, and that was only because
he found out that my mom was sick with cancer. So that was just very
different. And I heard that he recently passed away, because after my
mom died, he would send a few cards for me and my sister’s birthdays
and things like that.”
His upbringing as a Jehovah’s Witness and a rough coming out
experience with his father didn’t make things easier. Travezz took
control of his life by moving to Los Angeles and entering the adult
industry in 2018.
“Doing porn…it was like freedom. A lot of people won’t understand
this, but I was bottled up for so long with my sexuality, and people
rejecting me because I’m black…then the religion, and then even some
family members reject me because I’m gay. And then there’s a lot of
other people now, they reject me because I do porn,” he says. “With
everything that I’ve gone through as far as the racism, the homophobia,
I just feel like I don’t give a fuck anymore. I don’t give a fuck about what
anybody says or thinks about me. I’m going to do what the fuck I want
to do, when I want to do it and how I want to do it.”
≠ STORY: BRADY JANSEN
≠ PHOTOGRAPHY: FALCON STUDIOS & PSIMARD_PHOTOG
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