Chatting Up Shine Louse Houston
Excerpt from an interview with Shine Louise Houston, creator of queer porn company Pink & White Productions, crashpadseries.com and heavenlyspire.com.
Have you gotten any backlash from the lesbian community for focusing on male bodies, even though it is through a queer eye?
I’ve gotten some people who don’t particularly like the identity of queer and they say you don’t speak for us, you’re corrupting the lesbian culture, and all that kinds of stuff. I tell those people, I’m one voice. This is my perspective. I am speaking out and representing the community and yes, I am one voice and these are my politics. Really, it’s about the concept of queer and queer sexuality and working outside the norms of the binary, even that binary within the gay community…whether you’re straight or you’re gay. These concepts of where you put yourself in the box and where you put yourself on the binary is in fact your choice that it’s not a linear progression. Sexuality is for anybody, and your object of desire or your particular object of desire aren’t limited to a certain set of people or a certain type of people with a particular body type. For some people I think they really get it and for some people it’s like, ehhhhh. That’s just not for them and what I do isn’t for them.That’s when I’m like, there needs to be more voices. I believe in my politics and some people might not believe in my politics. If you don’t like it, do what I did. I didn’t like what was going on in the porn industry in terms of representation of gay, lesbian, queer, and trans folks so I made my own stuff.
From Curve Magazine Article “Chatting Up Shine Louise Houston”
