Mormon DVD buyers
accidentally sold gay indie movie

Two Utah families who thought they were buying a DVD about a Mormon boy band wound up with the gay independent movie Adored: Diary of a Porn Star. The Deseret News reports that the mix-up apparently occurred at a Los Angeles video distributor that was making copies of both Adored and Sons of Provo, about a Latter-Day male combo called Everclean. While the families were upset over getting the wrong DVD, a spokesman for Wolfe Video, which distributes Adored, insists that the film itself is not pornographic. "It's a very heartwarming film about a porn star [who] reconnects with his family," Corey Eubanks told the News. "It's not a porn film at all. It's just about someone who is a porn actor."

HaleStorm, the company behind Sons of Provo, has a policy of not working with companies that distribute porn, and its lawyers are currently arguing with the distributor over whether or not Adored could be considered pornographic. "This is hugely damaging," said HaleStorm's George Dayton. "We don't want our consumers to associate anything with us, whether it's some soft-core title or whatever--I don't know. But certainly, this title doesn't lend itself to good, clean family or LDS-centered entertainment." Dayton added that the Sons of Provo DVDs had been recalled and that a new shipment could be on shelves this week.