Popular gay porn websites including (where Curtis works), Men.com, and all offer movies proudly featuring straight actors. “You’re seeing hypermasculine situations or sometimes professions, a construction worker and so on,” David told.
“It’s not only subconscious cues, it’s promoted as this by the studios: ‘Look at these straight guy f**k!’”ĭavid became aware of the trend for heterosexuals to “go gay” for parts after he appeared in LGBT-orientated supernatural soap Dante’s Cove in 2004 and discovered he was the only “out” gay actor on set. He realised this was increasingly reflected in both mainstream movies ( Brokeback Mountain, Dallas Buyers Club) and porn.
“A lot of the main studios’ producers are straight men or women,” he said.
