Five politicians and government officials with gay adult film pasts
Pretty much everyone has a past life or two, and that’s nothing to be ashamed of. Life is filled with unexpected twists and turns, career pivots, changes, regrets, and detours.
Roger Montoya is retired gay adult film performer currently running for the state House of Representative. Last week, he publicly addressed his x-rated past after a conservative news organization attacked him for it.
“Thirty-eight years ago, as a 22-year-old struggling college student, I was a modern dancer and performer living in Los Angeles,” he said in a statement before explaining he appeared in two adult films but that he’s “not proud” of it and it was “a very different environment and time.”
“Those experiences do not reflect who I am, and they are insignificant in the scope of my life’s work,” Montoya added, before listing off several of his accomplishments from the past 40 years, like helping people in rural New Mexico deal with life-threatening illnesses during the AIDS epidemic and installing an HIV/AIDS education program in his district’s schools.
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