We grew up in a very religious family. [Brothers Shane and Hal] are just going back to something they grew up with. When you grow up in a philosophy of fear, the kind of philosophy that Christianity is, it's easy to go back to that. You start to have these visions of yourself in Hell, or whatever it might be.
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Everyone asks me - are you straight or are you gay? It doesn't matter. Who cares? It seems odd to me the people who care the most are not the straight people I know - it's the gay people I know. I don't understand it at all. They're the ones who have been persecuted for many years, who were screaming for justice and equality and basic human rights. Gay people should be more tolerant of someone who prefers not to reveal his sexuality. Straight people tend to be more tolerant, unless, of course, you're going to Texas. Or Alabama. Actually, Alabama is more tolerant than Texas.
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In the Spring of 2002, he was in a serious motorcycle accident while traveling in India. He suffered a near-fatal head injury and had to return to the U.S. to recouperate. He survived the operation.
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After fellow gay porn superstar Ken Ryker confessed to Hal that he was having "a spiritual awakening" and feeling guilt about his past, Hal walked out on his last video, Three Brothers (1998). Although Ryker maintains he didn't know Hal was undergoing the same re-examination of his life and was not responsible for his departure, the video's director, Gino Colbert, claims Ryker told him that Hal and Vince "had found Jesus and wouldn't be returning to the set."
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Brothers Shane, Vince and Hal claim to be strictly heterosexual in their real life, although Vince told a "Men" magazine interviewer that he was bisexual because he felt that this comment would be viewed by his audience as friendlier.
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Of Hungarian descent.
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Raised in Darmstadt and Blansingen, Germany (1973-1981); St. Petersburg, Florida (1981-1982); San Jose, Costa Rica (1982-1985); Santiago, Chile (1985-1987); and Denver, Colorado. Vince moved to Los Angeles in 1998.
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The second of the Rockland Brothers (Shane is older; Hal is younger)
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Son of Christian (Lutheran) missionaries.
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March 2000: Took a break from the industry to go to college, majoring in biology.
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Best Actor 1998, Gay Erotic Video Awards.
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Best Actor 1999, Gay Adult Video News Awards.
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Step-father is a physician in general pediatrics (his father was a pilot who died in a plane crash in 1975), and his mother is a teacher in English and foreign languages.
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