Introduction: Gay Porn Any More

The connection here between community, cultural and state changes and developments in gay porn is not a trivial one. These events, whilst variously significant, nonetheless intuit as if they belong to a away gone, so it is perhaps more surprising seeking porn scholars to note that it is in the present circumstances upward of 30 years since Thomas Waugh wrote the foundational essay ‘Men’s Pornography: Gay vs Above-board’, in which he acclaimed the centrality of homoeroticism to gay way of life:

I belong to a cultural and federal surround – the urban gay male community/ies – in which befouled pictures have a hard-won centrality, Gay0day both historically and at present. (1985, 30)