Johnny Mathis on the Long Road to Gay Rights: ‘People Are Stubborn; There’s a Wag Perd Until They Catch | Billboard – Billboard

Contents:

• JOHNNY MATHIS ON THE LONG ROAD TO GAY RIGHTS: ‘PEOPLE ARE STUBBORN; THERE’S A WAG PERD UNTIL THEY CATCH UP’
• IS JOHNNY KNOXVILLE GAY? KNOW HIS SEXUALY & PERSONAL LIFE
• GOG BAREBACK: TIME AND AGG A GAY-FOR-PAY PORN CAREER
• PONYBOY WAS NOT GAY (NOT THAT THERE IS ANYTHG WRONG WH THAT!)
• GAY ENTREPRENR FOUND THE ROAD TO SUCCS FULL OF SLURS
• S.E. HTON: NO, THE OUTSIRS DIDN’T HAVE ANY GAY LOVERS
• THE OUTSIRS AUTHOR: MY CHARACTERS ARE NOT GAY

JOHNNY MATHIS ON THE LONG ROAD TO GAY RIGHTS: ‘PEOPLE ARE STUBBORN; THERE’S A WAG PERD UNTIL THEY CATCH UP’

After mors swirled this morng, Jt Bieber has e forward and said he never refed a movie role that would have clud a gay sex scene. A Bieber rep told Gossip Cop that the origal story by the New York Post was Purpose sger reportedly told screenwrer Pete O'Neill, who is workg on a part for Bieber the g-of-age flick Uber Girl, that he wanted a gay sex scene rewrten--or he wouldn't jo the movie.

IS JOHNNY KNOXVILLE GAY? KNOW HIS SEXUALY & PERSONAL LIFE

It was regnn for an artist who has long sung of romance— but also has supported civil rights and gay rights, om sgg wh activists at the Salute to Freedom ncert Birmgham, Ala., 1963 to acknowledgg his own sexual orientatn two s later. [The threats followed a 1982 terview Us Weekly which Mathis was quoted as sayg, “Homosexualy is a way of life I’ve bee acctomed to. Footnote 1 He was also named as the send most searched for gay porn star Pornhub’s 2017 “Year Review” annual analytics report (beaten to the top spot by relative new-er William Seed, also a Men exclive)Footnote 2 and was the 2017 recipient of Str8UpGayPorn’s Bt Gay-4-Pay Performer award.

Through reflectn, I arrive at the ncln that the time was right for an agg twk performer to be hened-up by a transn to bareback; siar transns of which have bee wispread across the gay porn landspe the years that have ticked over sce the 2015 Johnny Rapid Go Bareback event and our prent day (see Brennan, 2020a)—due to the wispread mastreamg of bareback mercial gay porn, which has been buoyed no small part by advancements HIV preventn technologi. Johnny Rapid’s bareback but served as the lnch event for Bromo; a se that shared a parent pany (MdGeek) wh Sean Cody and Men, the latter two s that 2018 held the distctn of beg the first and send most equented sourc of gay porn on the web, rpectively (Brennan, 2018).

” Dennis Wt onted the mpaign wh a vio that teased: “I jt n’t believe the scene I shot wh one of the top gay performers out there. My analysis is drawn om 293 ments posted to six blog entri on Str8UpGayPorn, a popular gay porn blog that vered the mpaign. I observe that while Rapid’s first-time bareback performance is marketed as a up for viewers, the general nsens among Str8UpGayPorn’s rearship is more my readg of the disurse will show, the largt proportn of those mentg on the mpaign exprsed a cidly negative viewpot.

GOG BAREBACK: TIME AND AGG A GAY-FOR-PAY PORN CAREER

But first, let nsir the mentary that emerged on Str8UpGayPorn that cril perd before and durg Bromo’s lnch.

Str8UpGayPorn was selected partly for s pth verage of this particular mpaign, and partly for the notoriety of s creator, Zach Sire. Footnote 11 In fact, by Lus’ acunt, Sire’s reportg style led to his removalFootnote 12 om another popular gay porn gossip blog, The Sword.

Such fixated verage has fostered ndid ment cultur across Str8UpGayPorn that are ripe for analysis, reports of Rapid beg chief among the.

PONYBOY WAS NOT GAY (NOT THAT THERE IS ANYTHG WRONG WH THAT!)

Especially as this trend relat to the Johnny Rapid Go Bareback Barebackg CoupAnalysis of viewer receptivens to the Johnny Rapid Go Bareback mpaign offers particular sights to the functn of ‘bareback event marketg, ’ and wh the impact that the movement towards a “state of ndomlsns” (Brennan, 2020a, 131) gay porn has had on dience expectatns around what nstut a newsworthy performance—together wh dience views on the ethics of ndomls promotn self. Jt as the 2010s hered the equent prentatns of acts that would have been nsired extreme pornography a earlier—such as anal creampi—on s that are generally nsired “vanilla” gay porn (Kiss Nielsen & Kiss, 2015, 132), Morris has himself been forced to gravate towards more extreme portrayals orr to mata his radil reputatn.

GAY ENTREPRENR FOUND THE ROAD TO SUCCS FULL OF SLURS

”Footnote 18Morris’ pursu of perpetual notoriety/attentn is remiscent of the symbolic importance of the ‘first time’ hook gay porn.

S.E. HTON: NO, THE OUTSIRS DIDN’T HAVE ANY GAY LOVERS

This hook is employed pecially by gay-for-pay (see Mercer, 2011) s such as Broke Straight Boys and Ba B, together wh virgal twk properti such as Boys First Time (which is among Rapid’s first creds). The ‘hook’ the se of Bromo’s lnch (and Morris’ attempts at ntued relevance an era where ndomls gay porn is the norm once more) is to be able to make some claim that what viewers are seeg is new.

The novelty of the Johnny Rapid Go Bareback mpaign, therefore, through the prentatn of a sue of scen pictg a prolific, yet still young, gay-for-pay performer beg perated ‘raw, ’ and perhaps ‘seed’ for the first time on screen. For example, one ment that lls for “real creampi” and “felchg” (the act of eatg a creampie), “bee regular barebackg has bee so mon gay porn now ’s almost borg. ” (see Florênc, 2018) Also, as John Mercer (2017) not, the “first time” vice is “one of the key disurs of youth that is summoned up gay porn, ” (89) which is an unrstandg of the genre that helps expla the stg of Rapid for this particular re of passage.

Consirg first the reactns to the news of Rapid’s bareback performance, the failure of Bromo to stir up tert—and for s tend msage to land wh Str8UpGayPorn rears—is surmised by two them; namely: bareback as self now mundane, and Rapid’s bareback but as dangero. ’” (C55) The more plited of the two them that emerged the wake of the announcement is the healthism 2: As DangeroOf urse, bareback sex was once the norm gay pornography—before the HIV/AIDS era—, and was mpaigns of another kd—namely for safer sex—that have created the opportuni for harsh judgement, even censure, here and more broadly. As one mentator cril of the anti-bareback discsn surmis: “for 99% of ‘anti barebackg’ gay upl, ’s bee they don’t tst each other and themselv.

THE OUTSIRS AUTHOR: MY CHARACTERS ARE NOT GAY

A perhaps more nuanced view is that barebackg as a practice and (as of 2021) a now domant ndn of gay pornography, as nsumed and experienced the 21th century, is a se of creasg negotiatn and tst. Weeks wr that sexual inti are “necsary fictns” (1995, 98) shaped by historil circumstanc: the spread of HIV wh Wtern gay and queer male muni of which is a se pot, and a circumstance om which we vised a “grammar for safer sex.