A consideration 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 have always been objects of particular magic and have provoked scholarship including Richard Dyer’s essays discussing 1980s monoliths such as Jeff Stryker or Ryan Matin‚e idol and my own intervention in these debates in Su Holmes and Sean Redmond’s edited anthology, https://Gay0Day.com/ Framing Notable (Mercer 2006). In his article Arroyo analyzes the YouTube ‘star’ Chris Crocker, whose identity has transitioned at a range of levels and includes his foray into gay porn. Crocker is an outstandingly useful individual for the dissection of gender identities and is a figure who calls into a indubitably a routine of issues not far from the models of masculinities that gay porn deploys and exploits.