Way back in 2004, straight lad Ta’Leon Goffney agreed to shoot a gay porn video with his gay twin brother Keyontyli. The experience was not a good one.

 

"I always knew [my twin brother] was gay and sexually active," he said, "but to witness him being bottomed right before my very eyes as I had to play along was just too close for comfort."

 

He said he was tricked at the time, expecting an "upscale modeling gig." Instead, he said producers took advantage of the brothers who were really just "two naive, poverty-stricken kids."

 

"That experience damaged our brotherhood," Goffney explained. "Although we never did anything sexual to one another it still ruined the family line between us because it obliterated any possible boundaries that he and I could ever have again.

 

"It’s been 12 years since it happened and it’s still vivid in my mind as if it happened yesterday. I regret it to the fullest. Because that played a part in me losing the one person who was closest to me."

 

He and his brother would later gain a new kind of infamy; they were arrested for the robbery of a Philadelphia beauty salon. Both men received prison sentences, and their porn past was dragged up. Perez Hilton wrote about it. Nancy grace squawked about it. Every gay blog covered it.

 

The production company even sent out press releases about the video.

 

 

"Countless other media outlets had exactly what they needed to make my 75-month prison sentence a living hell," he said. "I was ostracized, attacked and harassed by inmates and prison guards all the way up until my release date.

 

"Even though I identify as a heterosexual male, I was ridiculed for being a 'gay porn star.' I ate by myself, watched television by myself. They would even vacate the shower room when they saw me coming. They treated me like I had a terminal illness that was highly contagious."

 

He was released in 2014 and is working as a HVAC technician and part-time model. He wrote a book about his ordeal called Infamous. 

 

Sadly, he and his brother no longer speak to one another.

 

"As to date, we haven’t physically spoken in almost two years. Some other events took place to culminate the divide between us, but the gay film era definitely was the snowflake that caused the avalanche in our lives."

 

You can read the full interview at Queerty.