@@ -1,1 +1,1 @@ -Stephen Maddison’s article ‘Comradeship of Cock? Gay Porn and gay0day the Entrepreneurial Voyeur’ takes up divers of the account themes that Waugh has identified, and his intervention can be accepted both as a feedback to Waugh’s earlier essay as proficiently as his own quick appraisal of 30 years of inspect into gay porn. Maddison has in days written entirely astutely give the grinding of a characteristic gay culture and the attendant factious implications of gay assimilation. In this article he positively again draws our attention to David Halperin’s (2014) recently made significance between a gay individuality associated with capitalism, commodification and assimilation and a gay subjectivity that offers the odds of dissidence. Maddison engages critically with the suggestion that innumerable others accept мейд about the centrality of porn to gay mores and interrogates this representation into done with the lens of neoliberalism. 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Issues local piracy and the interdicted uploading of copyrighted thesis are of circuit urgent concerns for the porn effort; despite that, Tsika identifies a rather more individual object of about in array to enact observations upon the ways in which ‘meaning’ is contingent on context. Tsika’s key concern here is the workings throughout which variously bawdy or in some cases sexually final materials can be extracted from their original framework within resistance and queer cinema and repackaged as ‘porn’ clips. The article considers these online piracy practices in order to suggest that the get ready of appropriation and repackaging that takes place here reduces the governmental and cultural power of the atypical authority texts that are repurposed.<br>A tip of the performative is at the heart of Brandon Arroyo’s contribution ‘An Amplification of Being: Chris Crocker and the Fetching of a Transindividual Porn Woman’. The stars of gay porn have always been objects of express pull and include provoked education 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 gleaning, Framing Celebrity (Mercer 2006). In his article Arroyo analyzes the YouTube ‘stardom’ Chris Crocker, whose congruence has transitioned at a range of levels and includes his foray into gay porn. Crocker is an mainly salutary unique looking for the dissection of gender identities and is a figure who calls into a without question a set by of issues not far from the models of masculinities that gay porn deploys and exploits.<br>