This Retired Gay Porn Star Is Running for Mayor in a Small Spanish Village

Antonio Moreno — more popularly known as the former Spanish gay porn actor Héctor de Silva — is running for mayor in the Spanish village of Carcelén.

“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 said in a statement reported by Spanish news outlet Sur. “It is a stage in my life that I don’t regret because I learned a lot.”

After initially leaving the adult entertainment industry, Moreno later became a forest firefighter for the public company GEACAM in the Castilla-La Mancha region. His time here let him feel more connected with the village of Carcelén (which has a population of less than 500 people) since moving to the region over six years ago.

“I was born in the city of Albacete but when I arrived here I fell in love with this village and its natural environment, which is spectacular,” he said. “I discovered that an aunt of mine had been given up for adoption to a family in Carcelén, I looked for her and I found her.”

Now a livestock farmer who lives with his partner, Moreno says the town “needs to improve in many things because it is very neglected, we have a very high IBI property tax and there is less and less population because there is no work to attract families with children. Carcelén has many possibilities because it has nature, heritage and its August festivals that could be more widely known.”

Moreno will face off against the current mayor, María Dolores Gómez Piqueras, who has held office since 2011, on May 28.