Latino Fan Club

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Latino Fan Club is a gay pornographic film and magazine production company that specializes in producing videos that cater to viewers who are attracted to Latino men, with emphasis on the casual sexual interaction between heterosexual men, and on uncircumcised penises. The company began in 1985 when a number of pornographic production companies surfaced specializing in films featuring men who were gay-for-pay. Writer-director-producer Brian Brennan has been the principal force behind the Latino Fan Club since its inception. Several actors appeared in a number of different features, including Rico Suave, Romeo Castillo and M. Vic Mann in the early years of the studio.

Some of the actors in the films produced by Latino Fan Club identify as heterosexual strictly in the films for business. Some of them used to offer prostitution services via the company's website. In the beginning the actors where portrayed in racially stereotyped situations, i.e., prison inmates, drug dealers, gang bangers. They are generally portrayed as fellas from "around the block". Many of the early films featured older white men paying for the services of younger men of color. The films and the subject matter has broaden over the years to include an SFI themed series and themes involving various parts of urban NYC life featuring mostly, Latino, black, and other young men of color, including Tiger Tyson. Some of the company's titles include: Urban Jungle Gym (set in an all-Latino clothing-optional gym,) Boyz in the Crib, Cock Doctor and Juice Bigelow, Male Gigolo.

Many of the Latino Fan Club films are remarkable for the humor. One early feature was set in a drug rehabilitation clinic, which was given the name "Latinos In Crisis Keeping It Together," or "LICKIT." Another film was based on the popular Mario Brothers video games produced by Nintendo. The studio also regularly produced sequels of popular features, including the "Speedy Rodriquez" series that followed the adventures of a team of bicycle messengers, a "Latino Showboys" series about strippers in a Times Square club and a dozen "Horse Hung Hispanic" films presenting jerk-off solo scenes by well endowed models.

Less often, the spare stories that provide the opportunity to showcase the sexual activities of the attractive models included a serious message, such as in "Jacknives," "Homeboy Hoodlums" and "Rocky Ruiz." Several films portray the consequences of alcoholism or drug addiction. These messages though sincere are a bit taciturn considering the use and glorification of drug sales and casual pot smoking in many of the features. To LFC's credit the safe sex message is and has always been fairly consistent. In frustration over the “Latino hustler” as object themes, several companies have cropped up over the years presenting men of color in more varied settings with a narrative directed at other men of color. Chief among these is Enrique Cruz's company Lamancha Videos founded in 1995.