Queer Pornography Research Articles

Finding gender through porn performance

Queer porn means different things to different people – but to me, it means porn that is out of the box, out of the closet, and shamelessly sex-positive. Queer porn's endless combinations of gender...

Queering pornography through qualitative methods

AbstractThis study explores the meanings of participation for members of the queer pornography community in the San Francisco Bay Area of California by utilizing a mix of qualitative research methods. Research questions sought to grasp the shared values and beliefs of the participants, including factors that might influence identification with this community and its activist roots. Prior research has examined queer porn with regard to the race and gender diversity of performers (Hernandez & Tester, 2004), and the queering of specific sex acts such as penetration (Day, 2009). But a more empirical exploration, including examining the discourse on definitions of both queer pornography and the queer pornography community has not yet been done. Nor have issues of identity making or identify affirmation through participation in queer pornography been addressed (DeGenevieve, 2007; Jacobs, 2007). These unexplored aspects of pornography research and the unique characteristics of the queer pornography community dem...

Trouble ahead: Pleasure, possibility and the future of queer porn

Abstract This article provides a genealogy of a recent wave of cinematic pornography and situates ‘queer porn’ at the nexus of subversive art practice, hardcore pornography and sexual and body politics. The analysis is rooted in a close reading of Courtney Trouble’s film Nostalgia (2009), contextualized within the discourses of porn studies (an area of academic focus in film studies and visual cultural studies), feminism and queer theory. The four ultimate claims are that queer porn is characterized by (1) citationality (i.e., playful references to previous porn films); (2) multiplicity and variety of bodies and genders (trans, genderqueer, modified, fat bodies); (3) perverse and alternative pleasures (e.g., female ejaculation); and (4) queer audience address and community formation.