Gay porn star knocked out outside Castro bar after being mocked for his work

Alfonso Osnaya says a group of men taunted him inside Beaux, then waited outside to attack him.

Told by Jake Donovan · 27 September 2026

Alfonso Osnaya got knocked out outside Beaux in the Castro last Thursday morning by a group of men who'd spent the night mocking him for doing porn.

The adult performer told Out the men taunted him inside the San Francisco bar, claiming to know who he was and what he did for a living. He walked away. They waited outside. "I took the bait from some judgmental comments and I was alone," Osnaya said. "They were waiting for me outside. I got knocked out, and the next thing I knew, I had the people from Beaux helping me out while the paramedics and cops did their job."

Staff from the venue helped him while paramedics and police responded. Osnaya posted a photo to Instagram shortly after showing a cut above his right eyebrow. The caption: "This is how slut-shaming looks like."

He told Out he felt stupid for engaging. "They were instigating things. They were out looking for a fight. I should've disengaged."

Osnaya has worked in adult entertainment since 2021, filming for Falcon, NakedSword, Trailer Trash Boys, SayUncle, Carnal, Men.com and Lucas Entertainment. PinkNews described the incident as driven by "stigma towards his line of work within queer nightlife."

The Castro is one of the most historically significant LGBTQ+ neighbourhoods in the United States. It is also a place where the gap between liberation rhetoric and social reality shows up in ways that are harder to ignore than they are in a straight venue, because the people doing the judging and the people being judged are supposed to be on the same side.

Sex work stigma operates differently inside queer spaces than outside them. Outside, it is often rooted in homophobia or misogyny. Inside, it is about hierarchy: who gets to be visible, who is respectable, who deserves safety. A straight bar might refuse you entry. A gay bar might let you in and then make you pay for it on the footpath.

That is the mechanism Osnaya described when he said the men claimed to know who he was. Recognition is not neutral. In a room where everyone is supposed to be free, being recognised for the wrong kind of visibility turns you into a target.

The attack happened in a neighbourhood that markets itself as a sanctuary. It happened after men who share Osnaya's sexuality decided his work disqualified him from the safety that sanctuary is supposed to provide. And it happened because those men knew that once they were outside, the only people who would help him were the bar staff — not them.

Osnaya said everyone at Beaux was very sweet and thankfully nothing serious happened.

Nothing serious is doing a lot of work in that sentence.