ABSTRACT
The manifestation of a social movement’s popular memory is a valuable political tool. Gay male video pornography works doubly well in destroying social truths which are often predicated upon the constructs of the social control of time and space. Porn videos deconstruct the social order’s oppressive discourse of time and history. Gay porn disrupts the social constructs of space on two levels: one immediate, and one metaphoric. The visibility of these videos in daily life immediately destroys the public/private dichotomy so cherished by heterosexist society. On a more metaphoric level, gay porn videos break down the public/private dichotomy through their representations of sex in public spaces or typically “heterosexual” spaces. The production and study of gay pornography is just one of many possible starting blocks from which to begin this political marathon toward a “better world” in which the diverse gay communities are of an equal status with the rest of society.
