Transguys on Good Dyke Porn – Part 2
Here is another interview with one of the guys who’s done some scenes on GoodDykePorn.com. They have requested that I keep their identity private but he’s on the website so when you’re browsing all the scenes you can probably guess or go ahead and pick out whomever you’d like it to be.
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1. What made you want to do porn for Good Dyke Porn™?
There were many motives behind my decision to be involved with the project.
I think my main drive behind it was wanting trans bodies, and variations on the queer body to be visible. Even if it was a limited visibility, it created exposure and demystified different bodies. I hoped in a selfish way that it would make people more at ease with getting down with trans people. At this point the only exposure to queer porn I had, was The Crash Pad and Superfreak, produced in San Francisco. I wanted to increase the scope, for myself and others.
I was also exploring my exhibitionist side. So the thought of being filmed while getting it on, was exciting to me. Then by extension having sex kind of instantly shown on the internet was even more exciting, and knowing that it would educate and get people off. Well its a win win situation.
2. Knowing that GDP is inclusive of a variety of queer representations of gender and sexuality, as an ftm guy how do you feel about being a part of “dyke porn”?
Being under the moniker good dyke porn could be seen as problematic and empowering.
I guess in my mind it wraps itself up in identity politics. Because I identify with being part of a queer community, I think all things a little strange or subversive fall under that identifying word (queer).
Although i don’t really fall under the label of dyke, I defiantly see myself as more of a dyke then a heterosexual white male, or even anywhere in the gender binary.
I think it amazing that GDP is inclusive of all queer bodies, you have a diverse and dynamic cast that is represented on the site that I feel begins to represent a part of the queer community.
3. What is your vision of the future of dyke/trans/queer porn?
I see a lot of great things happening with queer porn right now. There are a lot of great sites out there that are so diverse and inclusive, its really exciting. A lot of queer porn being produced is super DIY and independent. Being produced by people like Bren who just want to see some hot porn with real people, who we (queer folks) find attractive. I see sites now like NoFauxxx and an amazing new publication called Original Plumbing. I also came across Morty Diamond’s work. He does these amazing tranny fag films.
It seems like these queer sites are a place where you can see the diversity of the queer scene in one place. I hope to see that transferred into our real lives and into our communities. I would like to begin to see more and more diversity, and more visibility for different faces, and bodies.
4. How do you think trans bodies should be portrayed in pornographic media?
I think that the portrayal of trans bodies in pornographic media can be a bit problematic, especially in mainstream media. The only representation that you see are these sensationalized bodies. Like Buck Angel, who i feel is a representation of a small population of the world. He is a muscley white male. Perpetuating a main stream stereotype of what a male should be. The same can be said about the representation of trans women in porn. It seems to me that trans people have been marginalized and pin holed through the exposure the public has. Like the only mainstream representation there is for trans bodies are in these very sexualized scopes, so they are only seen as sexual objects and not human beings. It’s a dangerous line between fetishism and sexiness.
I think the same could be said about the representation of queer and gay people in mainstream pornography. I think we need to be careful about how we sexualize the queer body/community and work on different ways of relating to each other.
5. Looking back on scenes you’ve done in the past, how do you feel about having your past physical body captured on film?
It’s exciting for me to have my past body captured. I think it important for me to recognize that that body existed for me, and I lived it in for so long. It’s also interesting to relate so much more to the body I am in now, and see how much I’ve changed. Like my intense amount of body hair, muscles and my lovely scars from top surgery. Its interesting to think that people look at me now and would never imagine that I had breasts and would be called a dyke.
6. What else would you like to say about trans porn representation in general?
I think that trans porn is branching off, and that’s an exciting and scary thought.
Like I said before I think it’s important for trans bodies to have visibility but also, I think it’s important to see them beyond a sexual and fetishized object and recognize that they are something beyond the body.
But I look at work like Original Plumbing and Morty Diamond‘s stuff, and I feel empowered and excited that there is this work being done. It’s important stuff, because it helps people think twice when they look at someone and assume their identity. Yes it’s using a sexualized scope, but it still creates visibility. Like through my exposure to the queer femme community I think twice when I look at a femme person. I’m not going to automatically assume that that person is straight identified. The same can be said about making assumptions about a “straight couple”, later you may be on a queer porn site, and see that same couple getting down.
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