Their name, their son, and the gay adult film industry.
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My profession now is going to register way off the morally acceptable Richter scale, and my last name - their last name - will forever be linked in to the Lexis-Nexis-Google-sphere-of-forever-and-forever. While they have since accepted my sexuality, they still feel it’s a sin and in the later years of their life, I did not want to confront them over this issue yet again. They are very religious, and after having been rejected by them once already for being gay, I never wanted to repeat the event. I never wanted to tell my parents I’m an adult filmmaker. He claims his identity proudly, but he’s clearly trying to manage the reality that the revelation of his profession will have a serious personal cost. He stands in defiance of the Daily News piece’s pearl-clutching tone.īut Buchtel spends most of his meandering post navigating and negotiating the fact that he’s been outed to the world as a porn filmmaker. He stands by his chosen profession, the decisions and accidents that led him there.
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Last week Buchtel posted on his blog an intimate, tenderly felt history of his relationship with his family–especially his parents, who never knew Buchtel was involved in the industry until he was outed in the piece.īuchtel’s letter walks the line between shame and triumph. Among the names named was Jason Buchtel, a New York-based man and CEO of. A few weeks ago the New York Daily News published a lurid hit piece on Glenn Greenwald’s past, including a stint at the helm of a gay adult film company.