Dirk Shafer

Birth Name:

Dirk Alan Shafer

Birth Place:

Carbondale, Illinois, United States

Profession

Writer, Director, Actor

Was chosen to be Playgirl's Man of the Year in 1992
Won a Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival Award for best film for "Circuit" in 2001
Became an icon in the mid-1990s after coming out as gay to Playgirl's primarily straight female audience, and made the film "Man of the Year" to document the pressure he was under to pose as a straight man
Best known as a former Playgirl model who wrote, directed and starred in the mockumentary film "Man of the Year․"
Made an appearance on the TV series "Will & Grace" as a character named Blaze in 2001

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