Gay Porn Community Mourns Passing of Scott Morris

GayVN Hall of Fame director mr. Pam submitted this tribute. -Ed. LOS ANGELES—Robert Todd Fulton, also known by his professional name, Scott Morris, passed away on April 14 in his home in Cathedral City, Calif., after almost a year long-battle with squamous cell cancer of the tongue, head, and neck. He was 68. Fulton is survived by his husband, Gordon Fulton (aka Gord Reece), of 31 years and their loving dog, Truvada (Truvy), and his sister Jenny and brother Bruce. Todd was a deeply involved community member, activist and event promoter for the gay community in New York City, Fort Lauderdale, San Francisco, and Palm Springs. In 1969, immediately following the Stonewall Riots, at age 14, Todd volunteered at the Firehouse Dances in NYC, which were fundraisers organized to support the legal fees for the Stonewall freedom fighters. In 1970, Todd marched proudly in the Christopher Street Freedom Day Parade, a pre-cursor to the first LGBT Pride Parades in the United States. Throughout the 1970s, Todd became one of the first disco club DJs, a model and adult entertainer throughout the early 1980s. From 1982 to 1989 Todd was a DJ in Fort Lauderdale, winning multiple awards for his creative dance sets and mixes while promoting Fort Lauderdale’s active gay night life. From 1989-96, he became a nightclub manager and was the concept creator for the Stud Fort Lauderdale, an industrial/leather/Levi dance club. He was also the creator of the Fort Lauderdale Gay Business Association and the Gay Leathermen’s Group. In 1989, Todd was widowed from his prior partner, Bob Sweeten, who passed away of AIDS; diagnosed posthumously during the early days of the global pandemic. In 1998, Todd founded the San Francisco Fetish Factory, an online fetish wear website which prompted an expansion into a gay studio called Factory Video Productions in the early 2000s. Factory Video was one of the first pro-am adult companies owned and operated by former models and industry insiders. In 2008, due to police crackdowns on adult public play at San Francisco’s Dore Alley and Folsom Street Fairs, Todd created safe spaces for adult men who have sex with men by creating CumUnion Party Events, which has grown into a global play party phenomenon in more than 50 cities in seven countries.Before being diagnosed with cancer in 2022, Todd intended to create and promote a Men’s Adult Safe Spaces Coalition to provide global advocacy and activism for the community. This was a by-product of a need Todd saw as a reaction to the recent Covid and Monkeypox pandemics. In 2021 and 2022, Todd was an active participant and liaison to the bathhouse business community on the Center for Disease Control (CDC) Monkeypox Task Force. Todd’s advocacy helped to bring treatment options to gay men at the venues where they congregated and to curtail a broader potential impact from this new health crisis. Todd had always been a fierce fighter for the disenfranchised in the gay community. He created safety and dignity for so many gay men who were estranged by their friends and families simply for living their lives authentically, and he wanted to see a world where love and acceptance were the norm. Anyone who knew Todd and Gordon, knew they were an inseparable and a formidable force—fun, outrageous, and truly devoted to one another. Gordon often retells the story of meeting Todd in 1991 as being “picked-up by the hottest guy in the bar” and from that day on he began living his true and best life.The family would like to thank everyone who has been supportive with their love, generosity, compassion, and kindness toward Todd during this past year as they have dealt with this terrible illness.Todd often said “that through the grief, through the conflict, through the fighting, and all the adversity our community kept on dancing.” Keep on dancing.