A rumination of the performative is at the pump of Brandon Arroyo’s contribution ‘An Amplification of Being: Chris Crocker and the Becoming of a Transindividual Porn Star’. The stars of gay porn receive continually been objects of particular pull and have provoked education including Richard Dyer’s essays discussing 1980s monoliths such as Jeff Stryker or Ryan Idol and my own intervention in these debates in Su Holmes and Sean Redmond’s edited collection, Framing Notable (Mercer 2006). In his article Arroyo analyzes the YouTube ‘star’ Chris Crocker, whose congruence has transitioned at a range of levels and includes his foray into gay porn. Crocker is an outstandingly useful unique recompense the analysis of gender identities and is a worthy who calls into a suspicions about a set of issues not far from the models of masculinities that gay porn deploys and exploits.