Some sites really try to come up with clever names, while others do not try at all. TheGay.com is the one that sits in the second batch. No clever pun, no mascot, no weird made-up word, just “the gay,” as if it is the one and only, the final boss of gay porn. It is quite a bold move to name your platform like that, and honestly, I got to give it credit. It really takes balls to pull off something like this. But I digress, we are here to talk about its crossdressing section, because that is what you came for, whether you want to admit that or not.
I get it, crossdressing is one of those niches people like to act weird about in public, and then binge dozens of videos in private. I am not here to judge. A guy who can pull off stockings, heels, and a bit of lipstick without looking like he lost a bet deserves some respect, and a guy who looks that good while getting railed deserves even more. So, let’s skip the awkward small talk and see what TheGay has in its closet.
Around 8.000 crossdressing gay videos
The crossdressing tag on TheGay has around 8.000 videos, and while that is not the biggest number on the internet, it is a very decent collection for this niche. It will certainly keep you busy for months if you watch a couple every night. Plenty of tube sites would be happy to have this many videos in total, never mind in a single niche like crossdressing.
What I liked even more than the number is how clean the tag is. Crossdressing content has a nasty habit of bleeding into every neighboring niche, so you often expect a guy in a skirt and end up with something that has nothing to do with it. On TheGay, this issue is barely present. Most of what is under the crossdressing tag is actually what the tag promises, and I didn’t have to fight through pages of bullshit unrelated content to find the good stuff.
This does not mean that the tag is perfect, as there are still some videos that are tagged poorly. It is the usual tube-site laziness, and it is not unique to TheGay. It just means that here and there, you won’t get quite what you expected, but compared to anywhere else, this site is only getting a minor complaint from me, and you can trust me that your browsing session won’t be ruined.
Sorting videos is on the old-fashioned side with a twist
You will get the usual sorting and filtering tools, and they are pretty solid. Sort videos by publication date, duration, number of comments, popularity, and rating. If you ask me, popularity is your safest bet, since this will give you the scenes that the community approves of, while sorting something like the number of comments can often give you a good laugh since it shows you videos that get people talking.
Then there are the filters. You can narrow things down by period, including all time, the last month, the last week, or the last day. That's handy if you want to see what's been hot lately instead of the same old classics everyone has already seen. There's a duration filter with less than 10 minutes, 10 to 40 minutes, more than 40 minutes, or any length. That middle option covers a wide range, but it works fine for most people. Finally, there's an HD checkbox, which is simple but useful. Tick it, and the grainy stuff disappears.
What I really have to give props to is the mix-and-match tag system, instead of dumping you on one big tag page and wishing you luck. TheGay gives you an option to check up to three tags at a time to narrow your search. The list is huge, and you've got the classics like amateur, anal, BDSM, big cock, fetish, as well as some less popular ones. For a niche like crossdressing, this is a great feature, since crossdressing is rarely the only thing people want to see, and if you want to see a sloppy-toppy, you can combine it with a blowjob tag and boom, you get a guy in stockings sucking someone off.
There is one catch with this, and that is that the tagging system can get glitched if you fiddle with it too much. If you keep adding and removing them, there is a chance that you are going to get an error that will show you no available videos until you go back to your browsing session or the homepage to reset the tags. Still, a very cool feature, especially for a free tube site.
Video quality is all over the place
It should come as no surprise that the video quality is all over the place. I am not talking about the technical quality, since you can easily solve this problem by showing HD content only. What I am talking about is that the content is extremely versatile, which is, in some sense, a good thing, but once you start browsing, you will see exactly what I mean.
While there are some professionally produced videos on TheGay, the majority is amateur and homemade content, which is usually the case for gay crossdressing porn videos. But the thing is, since a lot of videos are uploaded by the users who browse TheGay, some of them are recorded perfectly, while others are borderline unwatchable. This is somewhat of a double-edged sword, since I know a lot of you prefer this kind of content because it feels more authentic, while the other side prefers something that has a bit more polish to it. Those who love the best of both worlds will probably find this a huge plus, though.
Another thing that I am not a fan of is the player itself. While it would have been good a decade ago, today it just doesn’t have enough options. All you can do is fiddle with the volume, play and pause the video, and fullscreen it. Sure, I know some of you find this more than enough, but I really expect platforms to keep up with the times. There are so many quality-of-life features that a player can bring, and it sucks when you see something that has so much potential bottlenecked by tech that has been surpassed years ago.
Ads that behave on the list and go wild on the player
TheGay is free, so like every free tube site, it pays the bills with ads. The good news is that the browsing pages are not plagued by a lot of them. You will only see a few ads cramped between the video thumbnails, but they are easy to spot since they do not have the view counter or the uploader’s username underneath. After you browse for a while, you will stop noticing them.
However, the moment you open a video, the nice-guy mask comes off, and the ads will come at you hard. For starters, you will get a 30-second ad before your video starts. Sure, you can skip it after a few seconds, but this is quite annoying. On top of this, there are a bunch of ads around the video player, and they are very cluttered and repetitive. Anyone with a bit of experience knows an ad-blocker takes care of most of this, and if you don't have one by now, you really should. If you read my previous work, you should know better by now.
Does TheGay live up to its name?
Mostly, yes.
TheGay gives you around 8.000 crossdressing videos without asking for a cent from you. The tag is surprisingly clean, and the ability to stack up to three of them to narrow your search makes it one of the easiest places to filter out crossdressing porn. Other filters that it offers are simple, but they do the job, and the browsing experience is pleasant until you visit the video pages where the ads will ambush you.
The downsides are that some videos are borderline unwatchable because the uploaders had no clue how to record their content, even if the resolution is decent. Badly tagged videos here and there are also a minor issue. I also don’t understand why the tag system can glitch out, but nothing bad I mentioned is a dealbreaker. If you want a free, well-organized crossdressing gay porn collection where you can mix the tag with some other kinks, then this site is definitely worth bookmarking.
