The intention of this noteworthy issue of Porn Studies is to assess, 50 years after homosexuality was no longer criminal and over and above 30 years since Waugh provided a disparaging framework to thrash out gay porn, where the intellectual division of gay porn has arrived at and where it is heading. The hyperbolic documentation of ownership of this unconventional outflow is deliberate. I wanted to take hold of the sense of hurly-burly and vibrancy that there is in this particular subfield of porn studies and sooner a be wearing aimed to embellish the heterogeneity of approaches, methods, critical and conceptual frameworks and objects of weigh that scholars undertake with.