“I was just posting nudes on Reddit to buy boba.” That’s how Noah Way—social media wit, adult content star, and unofficial Patron Saint of Unbothered Trans Guys—describes his launch into sex work. A million followers and a FleshJack controversy later, Noah has become a cultural Rorschach test: hero, target, meme, mouthpiece.
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And while much of society is just now catching up to the fact that queer people—gasp—also have sex, it’s people like Noah who are busy redefining what public sexuality, trans joy, and online fame can look like when filtered through the gaze of someone who refuses to be boxed in.
This insight comes from Noah’s recent conversation with Boomer Banks, legendary performer and outspoken advocate, as part of Them magazine’s Superlatives series, where he was named “Most Valuable Twink.” In the interview, the two discuss trolls, trans identity, sex work stigma, and the very gay art of not giving a damn.
Onboarding via Reddit and Boba
Noah’s journey into sex work started with a pandemic dropout and some casual nude posts—“Maybe someone will ask me for a custom one. I can make an extra few hundred dollars a month I can spend on stuff.”
There was no grand strategy. No desperate hustle. Just a trans kid with a sense of humor, a casual relationship to sex, and a high tolerance for public scrutiny. The irony? He doesn’t even watch porn. Never has.
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“I just imagine things most of the time,” he says.
The Porn World: Welcome, but With a Side of Weird
Boomer opens the floor with a reality check: sex work is not always a welcoming utopia, especially if you’re not what the industry expects.
“I thought because I was brown and a person of color that other people like me would be like, ‘Oh great, another person of color that’s amazing in porn.’ But instead I was met with a very nasty reception.”
For Noah, who came out at 14 and was immediately met with resistance from family and peers, rejection isn’t new—but that doesn’t make it any less bizarre when it comes from other trans men.
“There are a few guys who won’t work with me or want anything to do with me at all because they’re mad I’m a twink and think that’s the reason I do well, which maybe it is, but it’s not my fault.”
His use of the term “twink” isn’t aspirational—it’s pragmatic. “It’s the best physical descriptor for me and also a descriptor of the way I interact with the gay community at large.” As always, he’s direct, dry, and unshakably self-aware.
Not a Cry for Representation—Just a Call for Room
What’s most striking about Noah isn’t that he’s a trans guy doing porn. It’s that he refuses to make that fact his entire personality. That hasn’t stopped the outside world from trying.
“Doing porn has been interesting in that it definitionally does make [being trans] the most important aspect of me— and a lot of times, I’m not sure how I feel about that.”
He’s not here to be your teachable moment, but he’ll tolerate being one if it helps another trans guy somewhere take up space.
“A lot of times, when people say things to me that are transphobic, they think they’re the first person to present the idea that I’m weird and freaky… And I’m like, ‘You don’t think I know that?’” He leans into the absurdity, not out of resignation but ownership.
Drive, Law School, and the Exit Strategy
Off-camera, Noah is studying for his SATs and learning to drive. He’s got law school on the brain—he’s not sure what kind of lawyer yet, but you get the feeling it’ll involve advocacy in some shape.
“Thank you,” he tells Boomer after being complimented on his smarts, in that polite, reflexive tone of someone who’s heard a few too many backhanded versions of it.
The endgame? “If I want to have any broader impact, I just want some other trans guys to feel a little more confident in themselves.”
The Politics of “Shoving It in Our Faces”
Noah has no patience for the rhetorical gymnastics people do to justify transphobia. “I’m not doing anything different than what thousands of other people in porn are doing,” he says, baffled by the “Why do you have to throw it in our face?” brigade.
“I’m just doing it while I’m transgender.”
It’s the same playbook used to demonize queer people in general—if you’re visibly yourself, somehow that’s activism, or worse, aggression.
“If you’re like a straight guy who’s into very stereotypically masculine things, that is not thought about the same way at all, even though those two things, logically speaking, are no different from each other.”
The Legacy Plan (No, It’s Not a FleshJack)
When Boomer asks about the legacy he hopes to leave, Noah shrugs off the grandeur. Studios have been slow to embrace him despite his numbers. Being “undeniable” isn’t always enough. But he still sees value in the impact he has on his community.
“Even before starting hormones… people would try to discourage me from physically transitioning by telling me I wouldn’t be sexually or romantically desirable to anyone… and I just accepted that as true and was like, ‘Well, I guess I’ll just be single for the rest of my life, whatever,’ and transitioned anyways.”
It’s the most powerful kind of self-love: the “I’m doing it anyway” kind.
The Final Word? He’s Just Living.
Noah’s charm is in how ordinary he insists he is. His transness is not his tragedy. His sex work is not his shame. His Twitter followers are not his full identity.
And as for those trolls?
“You could solve the issue of seeing this for yourself right now.”
In a world still struggling to hold space for trans joy and unapologetic queerness, Noah Way isn’t waiting for permission. He’s driving—slowly, sure, but with purpose—and he knows exactly where he’s going.
Whether you call him a twink, a trailblazer, or just a guy trying to buy boba, one thing’s for sure: he’s doing it his way.
Noah Way.
And honestly? There was no other way he could have done it.
Source: Them