ABSTRACT
In the long-running debate on sexual representation, gay men's pornography has proved as controversial as its heterosexual counterpart, if only because the two have so often been equated. One way of resolving this dispute is to follow Tom Waugh's exhaustive taxonomy of gay and straight male pornographies and declare everyone right. Gay porn, like other forms of representation, includes work distinguished by misogyny, racism and homophobia, and invitations to non-macho identifications, satires of heterosexuality and safer-sex information. It would be difficult to maintain, particularly in regard to a movie entitled More of a Man, that gay pornography is never 'about gender'. In considering this product of a crucial moment in gay representation, this chapter argues that it may also be 'about sex', and sex's relation to both politics and the cinema itself. More of a Man turns gay activism into a religion — the sequence of confession, conversion and profession which narrates so much of identity politics so problematically.
