Introduction: Gay Porn Promptly

A rumination of the performative is at the callousness of Brandon Arroyo’s contribution ‘An Amplification of Being: Chris Crocker and the Becoming of a Transindividual Porn Woman’. The stars of gay porn have every time been objects of express pull and have provoked lore including Richard Dyer’s essays discussing 1980s monoliths such as Jeff Stryker or Ryan Fetish and my own intervention in these debates in Su Holmes and Sean Redmond’s edited anthology, gay0Day Framing Celebrity (Mercer 2006). In his article Arroyo analyzes the YouTube ‘toast of the town’ Chris Crocker, whose sameness has transitioned at a run the gamut of levels and includes his foray into gay porn. Crocker is an mainly usable discrete looking for the analysis of gender identities and is a figure who calls into a suspicions about a routine of issues not far from the models of masculinities that gay porn deploys and exploits.