Jack Mackenroth

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Jack Mackenroth Biography

Fashion designer who came to prominence on the fourth season of Project Runway.

He was the first openly HIV-positive contestant on Project Runway.

After a strong showing, he was forced to withdraw from the competition due to a contagious MRSA/Staph infection.

He grew up in Seattle, Washington, one of three children raised by his single mother.

He won a Project Runway challenge with his design of a three-piece outfit for Tiki Barber, which he wore for The Today Show.

Jack Mackenroth (born April 29, 1969) is an American swimmer, model, gay pornographic film actor, and fashion designer who competed in the fourth season of American reality show Project Runway. Mackenroth was the first openly HIV-positive contestant in the show’s history.

Mackenroth has been very open about his positive HIV status. Since his diagnosis on August 18, 1990, he has tried to combat the stigma of HIV by living honestly and being a role model through professional and athletic achievements.

Mackenroth first competed in the Gay Games in 1990 in Vancouver, British Columbia, without a team but won a bronze medal in the 50-meter breaststroke. He has won at least one gold medal in every one of the international competitions since.

As a fitness and fashion model through the 1990s, Mackenroth appeared in numerous magazines such as Paper, DNR, Men’s Fitness, Men’s Journal, Men’s Health, Genre, Blue (Australia) and L’Uomo Vogue . After Project Runway, he graced the covers of many magazines including reFresh, POZ, HIVplus, and Gloss. His fashion illustrations have also been featured in Nylon, Elle, and in ad campaigns for Tommy Hilfiger and Sushi Clothing.

In 1991, Mackenroth moved to New York City to study Fashion Design at Parsons School of Design. After Parsons, Jack opened a menswear store on Bleecker Street in New York City’s West Village called “Jack”. In 1997, Mackenroth went to work for Tommy Hilfiger and then designed for Levis Slates brand. From 2003–2007, he was the Design Director at Weatherproof Active Wear.

His mother watched his relay team set the national record at the 2006 Gay Games.

Mackenroth was a competitive swimmer in elementary and high school and continued competing after college at the Masters level. Jack has earned three All-American titles and in the summer of 2006, he set a national record for the breaststroke leg of the 4 x 50 meter relay at the Masters World Championships in Stanford, California.

In 2008, Mackenroth partnered with Merck & Co., Inc. to launch a national HIV and AIDS education campaign called Living Positive By Design. Living Positive By Design events have been held in Miami/Fort Lauderdale, Florida at the 2008 United States Conference on AIDS (USCA), Atlanta, Georgia and in New York City at the Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC) Fashion Forward 2008 fundraiser.

In 2008, Mackenroth also he appeared as an extra in the Sex and the City movie as “Hot Guy #17.”

On October 15, 2008, Mackenroth unveiled a custom-designed wedding gown crafted entirely of condoms as a visual reminder of the importance of safer sex and correct, consistent condom use for San Francisco’s Project Inform.

He competed in the 2009 Outgames, held in Copenhagen, Denmark, and the 2010 Gay Games in Cologne, Germany, where he earned seven medals.

In January 2016, he was named Wet Platinum Man of the Year for 2015.

In early 2018, Mackenroth began doing pornography though his OnlyFans page, after gaining 100,000 Instagram followers, stating, “Officially, I’m a porn star now, whatever the fuck that means.”

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