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The Internet is a fantastic (and, well, the only) way to follow what’s happening within the Occupy movement. However, just Googling “Occupy Wall Street” or even looking up the hashtag for your city of interest can be incredibly overwhelming.
The primary way I’ve been staying in the loop is by keeping track of people I already know and care about – friends, family, and the performers, producers, bloggers, and viewers of queer porn.
I propose that anyone who considers themselves to be within the queer porn community (this includes fans) who is posting about their city’s Occupation should be included in a single database. Keeping track of the familiar faces within the movement will strengthen our solidarity!
Are you tweeting/blogging about Occupy Wall Street and/or Occupying your own city? Leave us a comment or tweet @GoodQueerPorn with your link, and you’ll be added to the database!
It’s tricky to simultaneously maintain an income, a home, relationship(s), a social life, a social movement, one’s own sanity, and a regularly updated blog.
I suspect that I’m preaching to the choir.
Queer porn is no frivolous side project. It’s not an instant moneymaking problem-solver like in The Amateurs or Zack and Miri Make a Porno. You cannot rely on well-timed orgasms, retailers selling your fisting DVD, your fans being able to afford monthly memberships, or even on your cum, sweat and tears being reciprocated in any form of cash flow.
One of my favourite depictions of a hard day on set: BehindKink.com – Learning the Ropes with Madison Young Full-time bondage model Madison Young has a busy life as a gallery curator, writer, artist, activist and director of BDSM videos. Combining all her interests into one project, Madison sets out to direct, produce, write, light and star in her third bondage video, Bride Of Sin.
While there are plenty of people who may not understand the artistic value of pornography, it is unquestionable that the process behind the creation of queer porn makes it an art form. In order to create queer porn, you must be willing to:
Sacrifice 110% of your own time and money
Convince others to work for you or give/lend you resources for little or no money
Collaborate schedules around day jobs and other projects
Create a project that will likely be flawed, and then accept those flaws
Find a way to earn money from your project, working around the fact that many places will not sell content like yours
Be content that after paying back what you owe, you may have lost money
Continue to love your project while others question its merit
Trust that your project will inspire others
Fight for your right to do it all again
In looking at queer porn as Art, I’ve come up with four helpful reminders for myself.
1) Do not feel undervalued as an artist because performing in porn is “easy.” When you are queer, the way you fuck is your art.
2) Love what you do. Never stop actively loving what you do. If you forget, you will stop doing it. Work, pause, reflect, continue.
3) As you get caught up in Occupying Vancouver, remember that queer porn is also a political movement. By participating in the queer porn revolution, you are representing another 99% – those of us who have fat, glasses, pores, crooked teeth, tattoos, disabilities, bodies that don’t fit quite right, scars, cracking voices, fantasies, and a right to our own DIY expressions of sexuality.
4) Some things cannot be done alone.
This blog is a project that I love. However, I acknowledge the fact that in order to keep it active and engaging, I need content from voices other than my own. If you have something you’d like to write and submit about queer porn, please email your piece to spats AT charliespats DOT com with your name, a brief bio about yourself (optional) and a link to more of your work (optional). Currently, I’m looking for individual pieces, but if you have an idea for an ongoing project, please email me about it. Let’s talk!
This week, I plan to end the hiatus with posts about queer porn that made me fall in love with this punkass industry. I will write about experiences as a viewer, a performer, and a camera operator. I will write about new projects and developments in queer porn that you should know about. I will write about porn that I meant to rave about months ago.
I invite all of you to contribute pieces on what made YOU fall in love with queer porn. (Bonus points if your scene involves fisting – make a note of it if it does and I’ll post it strategically on Fisting Day.) Your work needn’t be posted exclusively on Good Queer Porn – I’m more than happy to link to your pornlove, wherever it may be.
Do not forget:
WE are the media.
WE start the mania.
