Now, Everyone Wants to be Gay; or at Least Bi.

Back in 1990, Madonna, my favorite person in the whole wide world at the time, released the video for her single “Justify My Love.” I found it a revelation. As I was already in the gay lifestyle, had done my first few porn films, and very much enthralled with the Castro scene, she verified much of my feelings and actions: that bisexual swinging was beautiful and glamorous. I went to a local Tower Records Store and looked for the video, which she marketed on VHS tapes for less than 10 dollars a piece. Before that, MTV had refused to air it. The prized videos were being kept behind the counter. Fast forward, over 20 years: everyone wants to be gay. While Madonna spawned a rather short-lived, but still potent, trend of homo-chic, all that happened in the 1990s pales in comparison to the mass-media saturation blitz that conveniently coincides with the world-wide push for gay-marriage. The idols of pop-culture: actors, singers, and models, are all making homosexuality seem like your everyday activity; following Katy Perry's lead: “I kissed a girl and I liked it...” But, interestingly, as always is the case, Playboy predates it all (see below.) For, they have been pushing sexual deviancy for decades. And, then it goes back to Hefner's hero, Alfred Kinsey, and the dawn of the modern pornographic age. In that foreboding and dark attic at the Kinsey home, the sexual sadist who became a media-darling; filmed his grainy pseudo-scientific porn films. The box had been opened; the demons unleashed; and the world would never be the same.