Falcon chose the pseudonym Kristen Bjorn for him due to his resemblance to the Swedish tennis player Björn Borg. This was followed by two appearances in Falcon videos: Biker's Liberty ( Falcon Studios 30, 1983) and The New Breed (Falcon Studios 32, 1983). Around 1980, he was photographed by Fred Bisonnes for Mandate magazine. 't was all very strange to me.' Encouraged by the ideal of male beauty that he found in gay erotic magazines, Bjorn began working out and paying attention to his own physique. I was really very interested in different cultures.' Career ījorn arrived in San Francisco in 1978, where he encountered the gay community for the first time. I wanted to travel across the world and photograph people. His career goal at the time was to be 'a photographer for a magazine like National Geographic. Īfter graduating from high school, Bjorn set out to travel widely, to places including Asia, India, and Europe. In an interview conducted in 1997, Bjorn stated that only one of his sisters knew of his profession as a maker of gay erotic films.
He was raised in Washington, D.C., where his father was stationed as a diplomat. Bjorn was born in London, the son of a Russian mother and a British father.