Daniel Laurin

Daniel Laurn is a PhD Candidate at the Cinema Studies Institute and a member of the Collaborative Graduate Program in Sexual Diversity Studies at the Bonham Centre at the University of Toronto. His SSHRC-funded dissertation, “Straight Guys: Heterosexual Masculinity in Gay Pornography,” explores the history of straight performance in gay pornographic film and video since the beginnings of the genre and considers the co-implications of sexual identity, amateurism, and authenticity. His work has appeared in AG: About Gender and in the edited collection I Confess: Constructing the Sexual Self in the Internet Age, edited by Thomas Waugh and Brandon Arroyo. His upcoming project, under contract at Rutgers University Press, is the second edition of Bigger Than Life: The History of Gay Porn Cinema from Beefcake to Hardcore with Jeffrey Escoffier.

Selected Work

• "Fuck Yeah Levi Karter! and New Authenticities.” In I Confess!: Constructing the Sexual Self in the Internet Age, eds. Thomas Waugh and Brandon Arroyo. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, November 2019.

Awards

• 2017-2019 SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship
• 2017 David Rayside Graduate Student Award
• 2014 Ontario Graduate Scholarship
• 2013 SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship