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(Content Warning) Dr. Thomas Waugh and Dr. Andrew Rimby talk extensively about vintage gay porn and all things gay male erotic studies...you have been warned!

This is truly a full circle moment since Andrew first learned about Dr. Waugh's iconic gay male erotic academic writing when Andrew was working on his dissertation. Andrew turned to Thomas' 1996 book "Hard to Imagine: Gay Male Eroticism in Photography and Film From Their Beginnings to Stonewall" (published by Columbia University Press) to think through why ancient Greek male homoerotic myths made their way into yes Whitman's poetry but also queer male paintings, photographs, and gay pornography! Thomas virtually sat down with Andrew to reflect on what is a touchstone publication for all who are in queer studies and porn studies. Thomas reflects on both the nostalgia, and what he calls the "mythology" of the Golden Age of Gay Pornography in the 1970s-1980s. He was after all getting his PhD at Columbia University when he both came out as gay, attended gay porn cinemas, and experienced a gay male sexual liberation movement! What have we gained and what have we lost?

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