John tagged along to the interview, and was soon on his way as an adult film performer. Eventually John picked up a guy cruising who happened to be a model who had an appointment later that day with a photographer. This changed when his lover got a job and the two young men decided to stay. Deciding that he was going places and doing things hed never done before John Gaines and his then-lover came to Los Angeles while on summer vacation in 1980, with plans to go back to school in Florida after he had finished having fun. At some point in his teens he had read about Jack Deveau, owner of Hand In Hand Films, and sent the producer some dark and fuzzy pictures of himself. He had been interested in pornography since finding a Playboy magazine his father owned when he was twelve years old.
When asked in interviews, Jon rarely discussed his life in Florida in much detail, except that it did involve quite a bit of getting into trouble. One of the most popular gay adult film stars of the 1980s. Jon King (12 January 1963 Jacksonville, Florida - 8 March 1995 Santa Fe, New Mexico) Born John Nelson Gaines, he died of complications of AIDS at the age of 32.
