There’s an entire body of work around how problematic sexual discourse in the LGBTQ+ community can be. I don’t do this solely because I love seeing the same actor in different roles: It’s mostly because mainstream gay porn is incredibly racist. Twitter has allowed people like me to ditch mainstream porn sites to follow individual porn stars instead. Not so on Twitter, where on any given day I can scroll past news of the latest clusterfuck in politics followed by a 30-second clip of an actual clusterfuck. Because most social media platforms’ rules against porn and nudity, sex workers’ accounts are often blocked, heavily censored, or altogether deleted. Twitter has done many good things for sex workers in general. On the one hand, the promise of a less censored platform could guarantee that porn on the site continues to go unregulated on the other, it could very likely expose LGBTQIA+ sex workers to more trolls. Since then, some queer sex workers on Twitter have been scrambling to figure out what Elon Musk’s latest impulse purchase will mean for them. When Grimes’s ex decided to buy Twitter last week, he promised to make that platform a haven for free speech, which always sounds like code for letting white supremacists say whatever they want.
