Going deeper than its hedonistic surface, doing porn actually means something to me. As Stabile said in his Huffington Post piece, “We might scoff at porn theaters now, but looking up at that screen, a closeted man could see promise of gay life that was open and positive, with larger-than-life men who were bold and unashamed in ways he might only aspire to be.” Gay pornographic actors are symbols - gay sex symbols - representing our sexuality in its crudest form. There isn’t a more perfect depiction of our sexuality than the very act of gay sex, no greater display of pride than gay pornography. We, the LGBT community, are sexual deviants. The gay rights movement is fundamentally about sexuality.
