Vintage Gay Porn Taught Me To Name What (And Who) I Want

“G Books, a gay used bookstore, was crouched at the garden level of a brownstone on DC’s U Street, back when the block was still snaggletoothed. I went there often in college, to browse videos and rummage through magazines from that golden age of late- ’80s gay porn. So often that, at a certain point, I exhausted their supply and was forced to choose something from the more sanitized stack of ’90s mags that I usually avoided. I liked the look of the cover model, his handlebar mustache a relic of a bygone era. But the model, when I opened up the centerfold, turned out to be a bait-and-switch. In the photograph — just a still from a movie, when I looked closer — he stood wreathed by text: a column that posed the question of whether gay men were in danger of OD’ing on porn.”

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/frederickmckindra/gay-porn-gave-me-the-sex-education-that-real-life-didnt