Vincent DeSalvo, a 22-year-old Randy Blue model who has done scenes with Leo Giamani and Reese Rideout, was expelled from Grove City College, a Christian liberal-arts college in Pennsylvania where he was a senior studying molecular biology. Supposedly committed to "a vision of Christian society transcending denomination, creeds, and confessions," the school has indefinitely expelled Mr. DeSalvo for 1) sexual misconduct, 2) participating in a public display of pornography, and 3) having been engaged in conduct that is contrary to the college's mission and values of and likely to bring it dishonor.
DeSalvo began modeling as a sophomore and worked for two years—leaving on weekends shoot in LA, Miami, and Chicago and earning about $3,000 to $5,000 per scene—before the school found out. "I've paid my entire way through school [doing porn]," DeSalvo said, "and, truth is, if I didn't do porn, I wouldn't be able to [go to school]."On April 24th, another student "discovered" (re: jerked off to) DeSalvo's porn pics and sent them out to some friends. Being a small school, the pic spread a faster than swine flu, and and DeSalvo suddenly had hate mails from about 150 student (roughly 6% of the school's entire student population).
DeSalvo can return to the college in fall 2010 if he promises to quit porn, but a majority of the student population have been openly hostile to him on-campus (some have thrown food at him in the cafeteria). He fears that "a bigoted prejudiced group [might] want to do something worse." The school's indefinite expulsion goes beyond the punishment usually metted out for the listed offenses, which the bisexual DeSalvo accounts to his doing gay porn. An appeal of the school's decision seems unlikely and it's also uncertain whether DeSalvo would even feel comfortable if he did return to campus. The story's been big news in the gay porn blogosphere, but there's no mention of it on the school's news and media page, which is too bad, because they could have run THIS:
Personally, we at QC hate seeing news items like this. We too keep our identities hidden in fear of similar discrimination. Remember Fratmen wrestler, Paul Donahoe expelled from University of Nebraska and Kurt Wild fired from Subway. We understand why a private Christian college might might not want to bestow a degree to an unrepentant cocksucker. But Jesus hung out with whores! Mary Magdalen ring a bell? The rest of his time, Baby J hung out with the 12 men he asked to leave their wives to follow him around. We're not saying Jesus was(n't) queer, we're just saying, if a gay sex worker wanted to study alongside him, he'd probably embrace that person into the flock rather than cast them out.
It's no small irony that this news breaks on the same day as another auspicious gay dismissal—that of Lieutenant Dan Choi, an Arabic linguist Westpoint grad who served twice in Iraq. Choi has been dismissed from the National Guard for "for moral or professional dereliction... [that] negatively affected the good order and discipline" of his fellow soldiers. How did he do this, you ask? By announcing his homosexuality on a political talk show; in open defiance of the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy banning gays from the U.S. military. Like DeSalvo, he plans to fight his dismissal.
Vincent and Dan exist at two ends of a persecuted homosexual continuum—one, a reviled social pariah for acting out his sexual instincts on film and the other, a reviled social pariah for acting out his sexual instincts in private. The only openly gay American Episcopal bishop, Gene Bishop, recently said he believes that the religious right is 95% responsible for LGBT oppression. The U.S. Military is hardly a non-religious institution and though anti-gay supporters of the gay military ban regularly cite sexual come-ons as the number one threat to unit cohesion, in the end, such expulsions are only about a useless concept of morality intended to shame gays for their sexual desires and remove them from society at large.
Thanks to XBIZ and Slog. WYTV conducted a great interview with Vincent DeSalvo. We've also created a Vincent DeSalvo QC Fan Page—check it out.
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