Similarly, Richard Dyer (1985) describes both the performers in gay porn and the audience members who watch them as “all gay men participating in a gay subculture, a situation that does not hold with heterosexual porn” (29). The first element of gay male pornography listed, under a consideration of “Relations of Production,” reads “gay male producer employs gay male models” (Waugh, 315). Straight,” Thomas Waugh schematically marks out sharp distinctions between gay and straight male pornography. For instance, in his 1985 essay “Men’s Pornography: Gay vs. The existence of gay-for-pay performers (men who do not identify as homosexual but who perform sexual acts with and/or for other men on camera) complicates even the most basic assumptions and analyses of gay male pornography. The gay-for-pay gaze in gay male pornography
The gay-for-pay gaze in gay male pornography by Kevin John Bozelka, text version JUMP CUTĢ013, Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media
