Colt Legend Mickey Squires on His Revealing New Doc 'Mickey & Richard'
Check out my first full-length podcast episode, devoted to survivor Richard Bernstein, the real man behind fantasy man's man Mickey Squires
May 14, 2026
The first full episode of my podcast — Boy Culture with Matthew Rettenmund — is finally here, and its star is Richard Bernstein.
Who?!
You may know him better as Colt legend Mickey Squires, the masc bottom of your dreams since the 1970s.
In his private life, Richard is a bubbly, personable theater queen, a warm and easy conversationalist and a 78-year-old man living a quiet life in Palm Springs. But his previous persona is never far away, with longtime fans still reaching out to express how important his sexualized image was to them in their youth.
And yes, he still signs autographs.
Check Out My First Q&A with Mickey & Richard HERE!
Now, Richard is getting a chance to do something very few other porn greats have ever gotten to do — tell his story. His whole story, from birth to present, including his porn glory and all the ups (love, the Castro in the ‘70s) and downs (substance abuse, HIV, loss).
Thanks to A.P. Pickle and Ryan White’s Mickey & Richard, a revealing doc having its North American premiere at Frameline in San Francisco on June 23, Richard is able to ruminate on his alter ego while lifting the curtain on his own reality. The result is a film that uses a man with a colorful, at times even outrageous, life to teach us lessons about ourselves as gay men. It is a deeply moving portrait, one that touches on all the sexy stuff while never short-changing the audience when it comes to exposing Richard’s humanity.
Please listen to/watch my podcast (embedded above or at Spotify), or read the slightly cut Q&A that follows:
