Publication: Reseña del libro Diarios porno: Cómo triunfar en el hardcore sin ni siquiera proponérselo
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Cerón Calvente, Pau
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Universidad Pablo de Olavide
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La presente reseña analiza Diarios porno: Cómo triunfar en el hardcore sin ni siquiera proponérselo, un compendio de textos autobiográficos, crónicas de rodaje y reflexiones artísticas del cineasta canadiense Bruce LaBruce, figura clave del movimiento «queer punk». A través de un estilo confesional, irónico y provocador, LaBruce reconstruye dos décadas de experimentación estética, política y sexual en el margen de la cultura popular, particularmente en los márgenes del cine porno gay. Dividido en capítulos que alternan entre memorias, diarios de filmación y textos curatoriales, el libro ofrece una mirada radical sobre la performatividad del deseo, la violencia de los códigos normativos, la mercantilización del cuerpo y la dimensión política del arte sexualmente explícito.
La publicación no solo constituye un archivo «queer» invaluable de prácticas y procesos creativos, sino también un manifiesto irreverente contra el orden establecido del porno comercial, el activismo asimilacionista y las representaciones higienizadas de lo LGBTIQ+. Este recorrido está atravesado por figuras icónicas como Peter Berlin, François Sagat, Kembra Pfahler o el propio LaBruce, en una suerte de archivo sentimental de la contracultura audiovisual. A través de sus diecisiete capítulos, Diarios porno ofrece un testimonio encarnado, lúcido y visceral de cómo se puede triunfar en el hardcore sin proponérselo… o precisamente por no proponérselo.
This review examines Porn Diaries: How to Succeed in Hardcore Without Even Trying, a compendium of autobiographical texts, shooting chronicles and artistic reflections by Canadian filmmaker Bruce LaBruce, a key figure in the queer punk movement. Through a confessional, ironic and provocative style, LaBruce reconstructs two decades of aesthetic, political and sexual experimentation on the margins of popular culture, particularly on the margins of gay porn cinema. Divided into chapters that alternate between memoirs, film diaries and curatorial texts, the book offers a radical look at the performativity of desire, the violence of normative codes, the commodification of the body and the political dimension of sexually explicit art. The publication is not only an invaluable queer archive of creative practices and processes, but also an irreverent manifesto against the established order of commercial porn, assimilationist activism and sanitised representations of LGBTIQ+. This journey is traversed by iconic figures such as Peter Berlin, François Sagat, Kembra Pfahler or LaBruce himself, in a sort of sentimental archive of the audiovisual counterculture. Through its seventeen chapters, Porn Diaries offers an incarnated, lucid and visceral testimony of how it is possible to succeed in hardcore without setting out to do so... or precisely for not setting out to do so.
This review examines Porn Diaries: How to Succeed in Hardcore Without Even Trying, a compendium of autobiographical texts, shooting chronicles and artistic reflections by Canadian filmmaker Bruce LaBruce, a key figure in the queer punk movement. Through a confessional, ironic and provocative style, LaBruce reconstructs two decades of aesthetic, political and sexual experimentation on the margins of popular culture, particularly on the margins of gay porn cinema. Divided into chapters that alternate between memoirs, film diaries and curatorial texts, the book offers a radical look at the performativity of desire, the violence of normative codes, the commodification of the body and the political dimension of sexually explicit art. The publication is not only an invaluable queer archive of creative practices and processes, but also an irreverent manifesto against the established order of commercial porn, assimilationist activism and sanitised representations of LGBTIQ+. This journey is traversed by iconic figures such as Peter Berlin, François Sagat, Kembra Pfahler or LaBruce himself, in a sort of sentimental archive of the audiovisual counterculture. Through its seventeen chapters, Porn Diaries offers an incarnated, lucid and visceral testimony of how it is possible to succeed in hardcore without setting out to do so... or precisely for not setting out to do so.
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RELIES: Revista del Laboratorio Iberoamericano para el Estudio Sociohistórico de las Sexualidades, ISSN-e 2659-8620, Nº. 15, 2026




