Former Adult Performer Becomes Conservative Mayor in Spain

CARCELÉN, Spain — A retired Spanish adult performer running as a candidate for the conservative Partido Popular unseated the Socialist incumbent and will become the mayor of the small town of Carcelén, in the Albacete province of the Castile-La Mancha region.

Last month, Antonio Moreno — who performed as Héctor de Silva in several gay titles for MenAtPlay and Men.com between 2015 and 2018 — defeated his progressive PSOE rival, María Dolores Gómez Piqueras, by 12 votes in the municipality of around 450 inhabitants she had led for over a decade.

The 38-year-old has over 50 IAFD gay adult credits, including “Hung Country,” “2 Wet,” “Spanish Connexxxion” and “Star Wars: A Gay XXX Parody.”

According to press reports, Moreno, who is gay, lives with his partner and, before his entry into local politics, worked as a firefighter and livestock farmer 

“I take it my past as a porn actor normally because my family, who supported me, knew about it and I have always told them about it,” Moreno told Spanish outlet Sur. “It is a stage in my life that I don’t regret because I learned a lot.”

Moreno also said that he had never had problems in town because of his sexual orientation or his former career, stating that he actually garnered more criticism for his alignment with the Partido Popular.

The PP has over the years platformed several figures associated with the extreme-right Francisco Franco dictatorship that ruled Spain from the 1930s until the 1970s.

Moreno said one of his priorities is lowering property taxes to encourage wealthier people to settle in the area.