# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dom-orejudos
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:38:02.589Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dom-orejudos"
name: "Dom Orejudos"
slug: "dom-orejudos"
description: "Domingo Francisco Juan Esteban \"Dom\" Orejudos, Secundo, also widely known by the pen names Etienne and Stephen, was an openly gay artist, ballet dancer, and choreographer, best known for his ground-breaking gay male erotica beginning in the 1950s. Along with artists George Quaintance and Touko Laaksonen —with whom he became friends—Orejudos' leather-themed art promoted an image of gay men as strong and masculine, as an alternative to the then-dominant stereotype as weak and effeminate. With his first lover and business partner Chuck Renslow, Orejudos established many landmarks of late-20th-century gay male culture, including the Gold Coast bar, Man's Country bathhouse, the International Mr. Leather competition, Chicago's August White Party, and the magazines Triumph, Rawhide, and Mars. He was also active and influential in the Chicago ballet community."
tagline: "American artist, dancer, and choreographer"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/40/DomOrejudos.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1933-07-01"
deathDate: "1991-09-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.89
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.740106666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dom_Orejudos"
    title: "Dom Orejudos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%88%D9%85_%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%B3"
    title: "دوم اوريودوس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dom_Orejudos"
    title: "Dom Orejudos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dom_Orejudos"
    title: "Dom Orejudos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dom_Orejudos"
    title: "Dom Orejudos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dom_Orejudos"
    title: "Dom Orejudos"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28595304"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump