At a all the same more individual invariable it is also 20 years since I enrolled as a PhD student, researching the iconography of gay porn, funded by the British Arts and Humanities Inquire into Stay and inspired before the work of scholars such as Waugh and Dyer (1985, Gay0Day.com 2002). This was the crux at which my lettered shoot becomingly began and a research course was plotted that has led to the issuance, this year, of my own disquisition, Gay Filth: Representations of Sexuality and Masculinity (Mercer 2016). Porn matters as a cultural spectacle, and it uniquely matters to gay men. It mattered in the 1960s when Joe Dallesandro appeared undressed in the pages of Screen out Telling, it mattered in the 1980s sufficiently for Waugh to provoke a case destined for its investigation, it mattered in the 1990s in the middle of the AIDS disaster and it matters now.