At a nevertheless more personal with it is also 20 years since I enrolled as a PhD evaluator, researching the iconography of gay porn, funded by the British Arts and Humanities Scrutinization Cabinet and inspired nigh the duty of scholars such as Waugh and Dyer (1985, 2002). This was the point at which my academic career fittingly began and Gay0day.com a probing flight path was plotted that has led to the publication, this year, of my own treatise, Gay Filth: Representations of Sexuality and Masculinity (Mercer 2016). Porn matters as a cultural happening, and it especially matters to gay men. It mattered in the 1960s when Joe Dallesandro appeared nude in the pages of Screen out Clear, it mattered in the 1980s sufficiently against Waugh to urge a the actuality for its interpretation, it mattered in the 1990s in the midst of the AIDS calamity and it matters now.