I first saw porn star Arpad Miklos banging the bejesus out of someone in a Michael Lucas movie. But what made him endearing were his non-porn appearances, like on this BUTT magazine-produced beach towel for American Apparel, or in the Perfume Genius music video below.

Anyway, as Towleroad informs us, “Arpad Mikos (aka Peter Kozma), a NYC-based gay adult film actor who appeared in more than 58 films, took his own life sometime on Sunday.”

(Also from Towleorad: “Miklos…was discovered in Hungary by Kristen Bjorn while working as a chemist…”)

RIP, nice-seeming former chemist porn star.

David Schmader—former weed columnist and Stranger associate editor—is the author of the solo plays Straight and Letter to Axl, which he’s performed in Seattle and across the US. His latest...