article_snippet: A filmmaker and Playgirl 'Man Of The Year' centerfold model who made waves when he came out as gay has died.
article_snippet: he became a pioneering mouthpiece on the subject of gay lifestyle and the heated circuit club scene in the 1990s.
article_snippet: D' Satirizing the need to appear 'straight' in D' modeling career, Shafer directed, wrote and starred in the acclaimed mockumentary Man Of The Year in 1995.
article_snippet: Six years later, Shafer movie about the gay club scene, Circuit, was awarded Best Film at the Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival.
highlights_snippet: Playgirl's Man Of The Year made mockumentary Man Of The Year about pressures on gay men .
  