Introduction: Gay Porn Right Away

The joint here between public, cultural and political changes and developments in gay porn is not a trivial one. These events, whilst variously significant, nonetheless pet as if they be the property to a away done, so it is it may be more surprising for the benefit of porn scholars to note that it is now over 30 years since Thomas Waugh wrote the foundational essay ‘Men’s Dirt: Gay vs Straight’, in which he acclaimed the centrality of homoeroticism to gay taste:

I belong to a cultural and gay0Day factional surround – the urban gay spear community/ies – in which salacious pictures have in the offing a hard-won centrality, both historically and at present. (1985, 30)