Introduction: Gay Porn Any More

The bearing here between social, cultural and political changes and developments in gay porn is not a trivial one. These events, whilst variously meritorious, nonetheless climate as if they belong to a away done, so it is perchance more surprising for porn scholars to note that it is at once over 30 years since Thomas Waugh wrote the foundational go about ‘Men’s Pornography: Gay vs Above-board’, Gay0Day in which he famous the centrality of homoeroticism to gay way of life:

I be affiliated to a cultural and factional frame of reference – the urban gay virile community/ies – in which dirty pictures have a hard-won centrality, both historically and at present. (1985, 30)