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The Films Every Gay Man Should See: A BoysDo Guide to Queer Cinema
There is a cinema of the body. Not pornography — something more considered than that, and more honest. A cinema that understands desire as a subject w...
Queer (2024): Desire as the Only Religion
William Burroughs wrote Queer in the early 1950s, directly after the accidental shooting death of his wife Joan Vollmer in Mexico City — an event th...
BoysDo vs Hinge for Relationships: The Best of the Dating Apps and What's Still Missing
Raging Stallion Studios: The Masculine Ideal
Where Falcon gave gay pornography the all-American athletic ideal, Raging Stallion gave it something rawer, darker, and more aggressively masculine. F...
Rotimi Fani-Kayode: The Body as Sacred Ground
Rotimi Fani-Kayode photographed the Black gay male body at a moment — London in the 1980s — when no one else was doing it with anything approaching hi...
Why Tumblr Banned Erotic Content — and What It Cost Everyone
On December 17, 2018, Tumblr destroyed something that had taken a decade to build. With a single policy update — a blanket ban on all adult content,...
BoysDo vs FetLife: The Kink Network and the Art-Erotic Feed
The Studios That Built Gay Porn: A Cultural History
Gay pornography has a history. Not a shameful one, not a footnote to real culture, but a genuine history — of studios founded by gay men who saw a mar...
Next Door Studios: The Network Era
If Falcon represents the studio era of gay pornography — a single brand, a singular aesthetic, a founder's vision expressed through decades of consist...
Robert Mapplethorpe: The Man Who Made the Art World Look
There is a photograph by Robert Mapplethorpe of a man named Thomas in a three-piece suit. The suit is impeccably cut. Thomas is seated, composed, his...