Where Str8 No Chaser is Headed Nine months and 50 essays in, Str8 No Chaser (SNC) has grown into an amplified inquiry into sexuality, identity, and sexual labor. Here’s where the work is headed next—and how readers can support SNC'...

Nine months in and 50 essays deep, "Str8 No Chaser" has grown into a sustained inquiry into sexuality, identity, sexual labor, and cultural history.

If you’ve ever wondered about the larger arc behind this project, this is a good place to start.

#sexuality #str8nochaser

What Soldiers Can Teach Us About Sex The closing essay of t Str8 No Chaser's military series, which explores how servicemen have long revealed the gap between behavior and identity, and what they can still teach us about sex, humanity, a...

What can soldiers teach us about sex?
The coda of the Str8 No Chaser® military series explores same-sex intimacy, sex work, and the courage to live beyond labels.

#Str8NoChaser #EssaySeries #Masculinity #Military #Sexuality

Coming Out Again: Why I Stopped Waiting to Belong Years after coming out, I realized I was still waiting–for community, for permission, for reflection. This essay is about what happens when you stop waiting and start building your own language of bel...

“Visibility without depth is a mirage.”

My new essay, Coming Out Again: Why I Stopped Waiting to Belong, is live.

A reflection on self-acceptance, sexuality, race, and the courage to be a majority of one.

#identity #queerness #raceandsexuality #culture #selfacceptance #SubstackSky #Str8NoChaser

Don’t Ask, Don’t Videotape: The Military Porn Scandals The porn panic that made heroes into criminals.

Why would mostly straight soldiers risk everything to make gay porn? Money? Curiosity? A sense of autonomy?

The higher-ups didn’t care.The fallout was brutal.

Read "Don’t Ask, Don’t Videotape" (link below)

#QueerHistory #SexWork #DADT #MilitaryLaw #Str8NoChaser #Masculinity #Identity #GayPorn

Brothers in Arms: How Same-Sex Intimacy Shaped Military History From bunkhouses to battlefields, soldiers and sailors forged intimacies the military couldn’t erase. Str8 No Chaser® uncovers their hidden history.

Before there were labels, there was connection.

“Brothers in Arms” explores the hidden history of intimacy between soldiers: how proximity, danger, and loyalty created bonds that defied definition. Link below.

#Str8NoChaser #MilitaryHistory #Masculinity #QueerHistory #LGBTQHistory #Homosociality

Incoming: Real Marines & Rough Trade –  The Hidden History of Gay Porn Real Marines, rough trade, and the hidden history of gay porn - where identity and desire blurred with duty, and the consequences were unforgettable.                   Photo by Anima Visual on Unsplas...

Coming up: I’m dropping new essays on soldiers turned sex symbols, scandals that ruined careers, Jeff Stryker’s superstardom, and the history of trade.

Read to find out what’s coming up from Str8 No Chaser®.

#GayPornHistory #Trade #Marines #Hustlers #LGBTQHistory #AdultFilmHistory #Str8NoChaser

Sex Among Men: Why I Created Str8 No Chaser® I recently got into an online tiff with a fellow gay man who proclaimed that tops don’t get rimmed.

Why talk about sex among men? Because the conversation has been hijacked for too long.

Here’s why I created Str8 No Chaser® (Link below)

#malesexuality #masculinity #str8nochaser #identity #sexwork #gayforpay #socialconstruction #sexworkhistory #maleintimacy #blackwriters

Incoming: Hustlers, Soldiers, and the Spaces Between Upcoming essays, musings., and obervations about identity, culture, masculinity, and memory. Photo by Lucas Newton on Unsplash

From the barracks to the backroom. From street corners to the battlefield…the spaces between hold more than we were ever told.

Sometimes it was for love. Or lust. Survival. Or daring to be.

Doesn't matter. They’ve been shamed long enough.

#Str8NoChaser #sexwork #hustler #soldier #masculinity

Incoming: Hustlers, Soldiers, and the Spaces Between Upcoming essays, musings., and obervations about identity, culture, masculinity, and memory. Photo by Lucas Newton on Unsplash

The space between a hustler’s stare and a soldier’s salute tells a story most of us were never meant to know.

Coming up…from Str8 No Chaser®.

#roughtrade #sexworkhistory #homosocial #maleintimacy #masculinity #Str8NoChaser #LGBTQhistory #hiddenhistories #hustlers #soldiers #militaryhistory

The Velvet Rage of Truth: What Kinsey Tried to Tell Us A personal reckoning with desire, identity, and the forgotten legacy of Alfred Kinsey.

Alfred Kinsey didn’t study sex for titillation or shock. He did it because he was broken open by repression, silence, and his own private grief.

The latest essay:
"The Velvet Rage of Truth: What Kinsey Tried to Tell Us"📝

#Kinsey #Sexuality #Str8NoChaser #Fluidity #Identity #LGBTQHistory #Science

The Velvet Rage of Truth: What Kinsey Tried to Tell Us A personal reckoning with desire, identity, and the forgotten legacy of Alfred Kinsey.

Before “gay” or “straight,” there was behavior. Desire. Complexity.

Alfred Kinsey saw this. He recorded it. And he paid the price.

My latest essay is part tribute, part takedown of how we were hoodwinked.

#Kinsey #Sexuality #LGBTHistory #Str8NoChaser #SubstackWriters #Fluidity #Identity

Gay-for-Pay: Polarization, Posers, and the Pleasure Principle Gay-for-Pay: Polarization, Posers, and the Pleasure Principle

📣New on Substack: Straight men have appeared in gay porn for decades. So why the outrage now?

We explore queerbaiting, label policing, @derekkage.com's badassery & when fantasy exceeds our limits.

Gay-for-Pay: Polarization, Posers & the Pleasure Principle. ⬇️

#GayForPay #Sexuality #Str8NoChaser

Gay-for-Pay: Polarization, Posers, and the Pleasure Principle Gay-for-Pay: Polarization, Posers, and the Pleasure Principle

What happens when desire and identity collide?

In my latest piece, we unpack the backlash against gay-for-pay models, the viewers who love them, gay models who don't fit into a box......and what that backlash says about us.

Link below.

#GayForPay #Identity Desire #Str8NoChaser

The History of Gay-for-Pay, Part II From the Golden Age to the Digital Frontier

What do a bodybuilder, a hustler, and the original owner of Gold’s Gym have in common? Read Part II of the history they never teach.

"The History of Gay-for-Pay, Part II” on Substack
Str8 No Chaser®

#GayForPay #GoldsGym #LGBTQHistory #Str8NoChaser #SubstackWriters #GayPornHistory #Trade #Hustle

The History of Gay-for-Pay, Part II From the Golden Age to the Digital Frontier

In Part II of the #GayForPay series, we trace the bodybuilders, hustlers, and street-cast performers who helped build the gay porn industry.

Read it now at Str8 No Chaser®, on Substack.

#Str8NoChaser #QueerHistory #SexWorkHistory #GayPorn #LGBTQMedia #OldReliable #Hustlers #Masculinity

Sexual Behavior vs. Sexual Orientation vs. Sexual Identity. What we do. What we feel. And what we call sex.

“He sleeps with men, so he’s gay.”
“She bi, so what? All women are."
"He sleeps with transwomen, he ain't straight!”

What if we say about sexuality is more social script than scientific truth?

My new Substack post breaks this wide open.

#SexualIdentity #Str8NoChaser #LGBTQ #QueerTheory #Pride

Str8 No Chaser®: The Social Construction of Sexual Orientation I was asked if I was gay when I was nine—before I even knew what “gay” meant, what sex was, or how any of it worked.

Sexual orientation as we know it was shaped by doctors, not desire.
Freud saw bisexuality as a perverse phase.
Even heterosexuality started out as a pathology. Yikes!
Read on Substack (link below)
#QueerTheory #Sexuality #Freud #Str8NoChaser

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Str8 No Chaser®: The Substack Series “Before it was a post, a podcast, or a docuseries-in-the-making, it was just a question that wouldn’t let me go: why do we cling to labels that both shape and shatter us?”

What if everything we’ve been taught about masculinity and sexuality was wrong?

I just published the launch post for Str8 No Chaser®—a personal + provocative multimedia project exploring how labels shape and shatter us.

#Str8NoChaser #QueerVoices #LGBTQHistory #Masculinity #QueerVoices #Gay4Pay

Authoritarianism Cannot Trump the Power of the Dollar Americans concerned about the rise of a billionaire ruling class should pay more attention to where they spend their hard-earned money

New post on Substack. #Str8NoChaser