Formerly Gay Porn Star Ready For One More Closeup

Posted on May 19, 2008
Filed Under Gay News Blog

Michael Musto writes:

“Usually I scream bloody murder when a gay man marries a woman, but when Jack Wrangler hooked up with Margaret Whiting all those years ago, I thought, “Well, maybe.” She was 55, he was 33. She was a classic, old-style singer, he was a once-raunchy porn star. She was a woman, he was a gay. But they both liked showtunes! And when Wrangler told her he was gay, Whiting’s response was “only around the edges, dear.”

“They’ve been wed since ’79, which is even longer than the Travoltas. And now, Jack gets the full-blown documentary treatment with Wrangler: Anatomy of An Icon, which is coming to the gay movie festival, Newfest. (www.newfest.org)

“Says the press material: “Although he started as a child actor, Jack Wrangler was one of the first and biggest gay porn stars of the 1970s, appearing in over 85 films. By the 1980s he had begun to appear in straight porn, apparently having his first experience with a woman on screen.”

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