Fredrik Eklund, featuring in the October 2005 issue of Scanorama

Fredrik Eklund (b. 17 January 1977 in Stockholm) is a New York City real estate broker, who was formerly an Information technology (IT) entrepreneur in his native Sweden, and has also made a name for himself as a gay porn actor (under the pseudonym Tag Eriksson, also written Tag Ericsson) and most recently as a novelist. Image File history File links Scanorama1. ... Image File history File links Scanorama1. ... The October 2005 issue of Scanorama Scanorama is the name of the inflight magazine of SAS, published by SAS Media. ... January 17 is the 17th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ... Stockholm panorama from the City Hall (IPA: ; UN/LOCODE: SE STO) is the capital of Sweden, and consequently the site of its Government and Parliament as well as the residence of the Swedish head of state, King Carl XVI Gustaf. ... Nickname: Big Apple Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area    - City 1,214. ... A real estate broker is in the business of brokering real estate transactions; that is, finding sellers for those who want to buy real estate and finding buyers for those trying to sell real estate. ... Information Technology (IT)[1] is a broad subject concerned with the use of technology in managing and processing information, especially in large organizations. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... For other uses, see Gay (disambiguation). ... A pornographic actor or a porn star is somebody who appears in pornographic movies, live sex shows or peep shows. ... A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ...

Early life

He is the son of Klas Eklund, author of several books on economic subjects and a political thriller made into a TV-series, and (as of 2005) chief economist at Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken. He is a grandson of the famous actor couple Bengt Eklund (1925-1998) and Fylgia Zadig (1921-1994). Fredrik Eklund's older brother Sigge is a writer and web designer who has published three novels. Klas Eklund (born 16 July 1952) is a Swedish economist and writer. ... SEB in Estonia SEB, or Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB (publ. ... Bengt Gunnar Eklund (1925-1998) was a Swedish actor. ... Fylgia Ester Zadig (1921-1994) was a Swedish actress. ... This article needs translation. ...

Fredrik Eklund studied at the Stockholm School of Economics, and also worked for the financial newspaper Finanstidningen. During his student days, he was involved in the Stockholm gay club scene, and with some friends started a club named "Billy". In 1999, he founded the internet company Humany, with his father and the former Swedish prime minister Carl Bildt on the board, among others. Eklund was the CEO and had 45 employees at the age of 23. The Stockholm School of Economics or Handelshögskolan is a business school and private university in Stockholm, Sweden. ... (help· info) (born July 15, 1949) is a Swedish politician, diplomat and nobleman. ...

With the passing of the IT boom, he started a music production company, Cave Entertainment, for a year and published 8 song writers with #1 hits in Japan, Sweden and on the Billboard Latino list.

Previous careers

He then left Sweden for New York City and entered a brief career in gay pornographic film under the pseudonym Tag Eriksson (or Tag Ericsson). A representative of a company producing gay porn, Jet Set Productions, having seen images of him on the internet, wrote him an e-mail asking if he wanted to make movies with them. After considering the offer for a long time, he decided to accept it "as an experiment", as a way to satisfy his own curiosity, and something to write about. He starred in the movie The Hole (2003), and for this role received a GayVN award for Best Solo scene. He made six other pornographic movies after this. Eklund also appeared as the cover boy for gay pornographic magazine Freshmen March 2003 issue. Nickname: Big Apple Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area    - City 1,214. ... Pornographic movies appeared shortly after the creation of the movie technology that made them possible. ... Gay pornographic magazines, sometimes known as adult magazines or gay sex magazines, are magazines that contain content of a sexual nature, typically regarded as pornography, that relates to men having sex with men. ...

After his stint in pornography, he went into the real estate business in New York City and became vice president at the Chelsea office of the company JC DeNiro & Associates. Since 2005 he is Vice President at Core Group MArketing. In the presentation of Eklund on the corporate website, he is called "one of the city's best brokers, being quick, efficient and always on top of the market," and has sold for more than $75,000,000 the last 18 months. Chelsea is located on the West Side of Manhattan, New York City. ...

In March 2005, Eklund made his literary top 10 bestselling debut with a novel called Bananflugornas herre ("The Lord of the Fruit Flies"), a story based on his experiences in the gay porn industry. The book was released in Norway and Germany in 2005. Because of the subject matter and the background of the author, it has received a considerable amount of publicity. The reviewer in the Swedish daily paper Svenska Dagbladet commented that the novel describes the choice of the author's alter ego to enter a career in porn as "a kind of salvation from a society trying to force him into the TV-night and suburban normality, a way to find the true self". Others have commented on the liberal and unabashed attitude towards pornography of the novel, uncommon in Sweden, where the view of pornography as a form of oppression is dominant in political discourse. An article author in the other large Swedish daily paper, Dagens Nyheter (presumably humorously) commented that he saw Eklund's work as a successful real estate broker as morally more dubious than his work in pornography. Svenska Dagbladet (SvD) is a daily newspaper in Sweden. ... Alter Ego has multiple meanings: Alter Ego is a game for the Commodore 64 computer. ... â–¶(?) (DN) (Swedish: lit. ...

The cover story of the October 2005 issue of Scanorama, Scandinavian Airlines's inflight magazine, is about the life and career of Eklund with the title "Restless in Manhattan". The October 2005 issue of Scanorama Scanorama is the name of the inflight magazine of SAS, published by SAS Media. ... Scandinavian Airlines System, now SAS AB, was founded in 1946 when the flag carriers of Denmark, Sweden and Norway formed a partnership to handle intercontinental traffic to Scandinavia. ... The Borough of Manhattan, highlighted in yellow, lies between the East River and the Hudson River. ...

Present career

Currently Fredrick Eklund is working as a broker at New York City real estate firm CORE Group Marketing, which he joined as vice president according to the July 13, 2005 issue of Real Estate Weekly.

Filmography

All with Jet Set Productions

• The Hole, 2003
• American Porn Star, 2003
• Desert Pick-Up 2
• Training Camp 1, 2003
• Jet Set Direct
• Lords II
• Training Camp 2, 2003
• Tag Eriksson Collectors Edition

Bibliography

• (2005) Bananflugornas herre. Stockholm: Debutantförlaget. ISBN 91-85477-00-1.

References

• (English) Profile of Fredrik Eklund at the CORE Group Marketing website
• Scanorama, Oct 2005, Scandinavian Airlines
• (Swedish) Fredrik Eklunds många ansikten, 'Fredrik Eklund's many faces', on the Swedish gay website "Sylvester".
• (Swedish) Jag vill pusha gränserna, 'I want to push the limits', on the website of the Swedish gay magazine QX.
• (Swedish) En porrfilmstjärnas bekännelser, 'Confessions of a pornographic movie star', promotional autobiographical presentation on the website of Svensk Bokhandel, a magazine co-published by the Swedish national societies for booksellers and publishers.
• (Swedish) Review of Bananflugornas herre by Eva Johansson, in Svenska Dagbladet, 24 March, 2005.
• (Swedish) Utanförskapets manifest: Med porr som uppror mot förljugenheten, 'The Manifest of Outsidership: With Porn as a Revolt against the Falsity', article by Lennart Kuick in Dagens Nyheter, 24 March, 2005.

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See also

• List of gay porn stars

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External links

• Tag Eriksson at the Internet Movie Database
• Jet Set Productions