Introduction: Gay Porn Right Away

Stephen Maddison’s article ‘Comradeship of Cock? Gay Porn and the Entrepreneurial Voyeur’ takes up many of the record themes that Waugh has identified, and his intervention can be given both as a response to Waugh’s earlier effort as well as his own perspicacious appraisal of 30 years of inspect into gay porn. Maddison has previously written very astutely far the rubbing away of a distinctive gay savoir faire and the attendant factious implications of gay assimilation. In this article he ages again draws our acclaim to David Halperin’s (2014) recently made excellence between a gay identity associated with capitalism, commodification and Gay0day assimilation and a gay subjectivity that offers the possibility of dissidence. Maddison engages critically with the urging that diverse others give birth to made to the centrality of porn to gay background and interrogates this proclamation during the lens of neoliberalism. In his article he looks at microblogging Tumblr sites that feature obscene load which he sees as acting as a site of a distinctively ‘gay’ and thereby consciously revolutionary gay culture.