I completely agree that some performers identify as gay but engage in sexual activities with women, often skipping pornographic studios where they get paid for it. This can create a somewhat confusing image, suggesting that one can be gay, have sex with women, and start a family. It's worth mentioning that using porn actors as examples to argue that one's sexual orientation can change is not very accurate. In Poland, for instance, one of the most well-known cases is Jacek Wrangler, who openly declared himself as gay but performed in heterosexual scenes because he claimed he was told to and could earn more money that way. Later, he had a romantic relationship and married the singer Margaret Whiting.
The couple was strongly criticized for the relationship, and Wrangler was accused of "turning straight" and entering the relationship simply for money. However, Wrangler always considered himself homosexual. "I'm not
bisexual and I'm not straight", Wrangler later said. "I'm gay, but I could never live a gay lifestyle, because I'm much too competitive. When I was with a guy I would always want to be better than him: what we were accomplishing, what we were wearing—anything. With a woman you compete like crazy, but coming from different points of view, and as far as I'm concerned, that was doable."- While the argument about competitiveness seems absurd to me, everyone has their own perspective.
Another example is the singer Tom Robinson, who outright denies the existence of bisexuality, which can be both hurtful and somewhat amusing.
Robinson does not identify exclusively as gay. He has had past experiences with women and has asserted that he has always made it clear that he liked both men and women. He now identifies as bisexual, but in the past he used the phrase 'gay', synonymous with 'queer', to encompass the entire LGBT community. He felt the term 'bisexual' was a cop-out.
A longtime supporter and former volunteer of
London's Gay Switchboard help-line, it was at a 1982 benefit party for the organisation that Robinson met Sue Brearley, the woman with whom he would eventually live and have two children, and later marry.
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In the mid-1990s, when Robinson became a father, the tabloids ran stories about what they deemed as a sexual orientation change, running headlines such as "Britain's Number One Gay in Love with Girl Biker!" (
The Sunday People). Robinson continued to identify as a gay man, telling an interviewer for
The Guardian: "I have much more sympathy with
bisexuals now, but I am absolutely not one."He added, "Our enemies do not draw the distinction between gay and bisexual. I erase my existence because I am bisexual myself, but I prefer romantic, emotional, and sexual relationships exclusively with men. I can only have a sexual relationship with a woman and nothing more.
This is why I sometimes have trouble taking gay-for-pay performers seriously, as well as some performers from the bisexual side of things, like Derek Kage. He once claimed to be bisexual, then, after performing with a woman , stated that he was exploring his sexuality and didn't want labels. However, he later identified as gay and corrected anyone who referred to him as bisexual. In an interview, he even said that the term "pansexual" might fit him better. Sometimes, it's hard for me to take porn actors seriously, regardless of their scenes, whether they are heterosexual, bisexual, transgender, or homosexual.