Remy Duran is the kind of club kid who makes you wonder how he could possibly keep going—someone who sees nightlife as his whole entire life, can’t stop, won’t stop. Duran, 30, grew up in the East Village with his mother—his grandmother lived next door—and started going out early and often. His up-for-anything charisma made him many friends; sex, he tells me, has always been “more social than it is carnal.” (Out magazine once declared him a “renowned top.”) Two years ago, his local horny-party-boy fame went national when he appeared on the queer season of MTV’s reality dating show Are You the One? In quarantine, he started an OnlyFans; his girlfriend, the fellow online sex star Zoey Luna, who is today very pregnant with his first child, helped. “I’m not a mainstream type of person,” he told me when we went out on Friday, May 28.
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