February 28, 2004
Cute Mayor Survey
Mayor of New York town marries gay couples
MICHAEL HILL, Associated Press Writer
Friday, February 27, 2004
(02-27) 10:08 PST NEW PALTZ, N.Y. (AP) --
Up to a dozen gay couples began exchanging wedding vows on the steps of village hall Friday in a spirited ceremony that opened another front on the growing national debate over gay marriage.
Officiating was Jason West, the 26-year-old Green Party mayor in this village 75 miles north of New York City, who joined Gavin Newsom of San Francisco as the country's only mayors to marry same-sex couples.
"What we're witnessing in America today is the flowering of the largest civil rights movement the country's had in a generation," West said.
Billiam van Roestenberg, 38, and Jeffrey McGowan, 39, were the first to wed to the cheers of the crowd. Wearing suits, they held hands and carried flowers.
"I feel happy and joyful and peaceful," van Roestenberg said. "A little bit of peace has finally come in. I feel proud to be an American."
"Now I'm normal and equal like every one else," he said.
More than 100 people, mostly supporters of gay marriage, turned out on the green across from village hall, outnumbering family and friends of the couples there to marry. A few scattered protesters carried signs opposing gay marriage.
Jay Blotcher of High Falls, N.Y., said that while West could only give him a certificate and not a marriage license, it was still important to go through the ceremony.
"We have to show people who we are," he said. "We've been badmouthed by religious zealots. We've been deprived by President Bush and we have to show people that we're your friends, neighbors and family."
One protester stood outside the hall with a sign that read, in part, "It's Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve."
"It's against nature," Angelo Da'Quaro said. "It's against religion, it's against all of that."
The ceremonies came a day after the state Health Department said New York's domestic relations law does not allow marriage licenses for same-sex couples. It said a clerk issuing such a license or anyone solemnizing such a marriage would be violating state law.
West and some legal experts said they read the law differently.
"For a marriage to be legal in this state all that's required is for it to be properly solemnized by someone with authority to do so," West told the CNN cable network early Friday. "I'm fully able to do that."
Vincent Bonventre, a professor at Albany Law School, said nothing in New York law explicitly prohibits same-sex weddings, but that the framers "clearly were contemplating opposite-sex marriages."
Discussion of gay marriage heated up this month after the top Massachusetts court ruled that anything less than full-fledged marriage for gays there would be unconstitutional. Since then, San Francisco officials have performed more than 3,400 same-sex marriages and have challenged their state law barring such unions. Earlier this week, President Bush endorsed a movement to amend the Constitution to ban the practice.
A bill in the New York Legislature would ban same-sex marriages. Similar bills have died without action in the past. At least 34 states have enacted so-called defense of marriage laws.
On the Net:
www.villageofnewpaltz.org
February 27, 2004
Olympic Gay Porn Scandal
This could be a big news scoop, but it may be premature to say so without all the facts I need. I am posting it anyway in hopes of getting input from readers to get to the truth. Hey, I never claimed to be a responsible journalist...
From what I can decipher, there is a scandal brewing in Hungary concerning an Olympic wrestler being thrown off his team for appearring in gay porn videos. The guy's real name is Gergo Szabó and he goes by porn name Sergio Foster. Here is a link to the Official Hungarian Olympic Committee site of Gergo Szabó aka Sergio Foster.
A reader of GayPornBlog.com alerted me to this story and provided links. According to my source, "The weird career of Szabó - being in the 66kg category of the 2004 Hungarian Olympic Wrestlers' Team - shocked the directorate. At the same time the Team straightaway inhibits the olympic membership of Szabó, and ordered the Hungarian Wrestlers' Club to take immediate survey about this case."
Here is the link to the official news of his firing from the Olympic team. If I could read Hungarian, I might be able to give more details about the story. Can anyone out there translate it, please?
My source also supplied some links to related stories about connections between sport of bodybuilding, escorting and the sudden emergence of gay porn coming from Hungary and Eastern Europe. The first article, "How Strong Boys Become Girls" talks about bodybuilders who escort, including Mr. Ukraine, Mr. Universe/Mr. World, 1991 US Heavyweight Champ, and the very entrepenurial Scott Sloan, the first Mr. World ("It ain't Porno, it's Slorno!")
The second article mentions several well-known Hungarian bodybuilders, lists the movies they appearred in, and how they get into gay porn as a way to further their careers in legit modeling and film.
The third article is an interview with a Hungarian porn star who didn't give his name, but alluded to even more scandal about Istvan Korda, the gay high ranking government official who paved the way for allowing porn to be shot in Hungary, and was eventually found murdered. And the tabloid also dropped this bombshell: "The world press have recently published an article on the most embarrassing sex-scandal of the season. Michael Jakcson and Fred Scahffer, producer of the song "What More Can I Give', which was written for the memory of the victims of 9/11, have decided to go separate ways. It seems almost natural that we Hungarians are deeply involved in this case, as Schaffer and his colleagues have been shooting their gay-porn movies here in Budapest. This part time job' seems to be highly profitable."
The fourth article seems to talk about the Gergo Szabo story but it doesn't have an English translation either. It has links to tons of free galleries and porn sites that feature all the popular Hungarian porn stars, including George Vidanov, probably the most famous of them all. (George Vidanov is my personal favorite of the bunch, too!)
So, what's the big deal about this story? Sure, we all love gossip for the sake of gossip, but those of us who were here in San Francisco 20 years ago are still stinging from the way the Olympic Committee dragged the Gay Games through the courts over the name "Gay Olympics". The word "Olympics" has become just as generic a word as "Kleenex" and "Xerox", but they chose to go after the Gay Games for reasons of pure homophobia.
It also comes right on the heels of baseball player Kazuhito Tadano's gay porn revelations. Tadano still has his job because there is money to be made from a professional baseball player (and I believe he already had a contract before his gay porn revelations came out).
Before we jump to conclusions about Szabo/Foster's homophobic firing, we should find out the rest of the facts. (Sidebar: he's probably straight in real life, as are many of the guys in gay porn coming from Hungary.) If anyone can help with translating the stories or providing other links, I'd appreciate it.
February 26, 2004
Howard Stern: The Real Story
Love him or hate him, Howard Stern is going to be the person that could determine the rest of your life. As reported in all the media today, Clear Channel has suspended the Howard Stern Show in certain radio markets. As of this morning, Stern, his agents, his bosses and all his associates were given no warning, no reason for the suspension, no details of number of markets effected and no time frame.
From the SF Chronicle: In announcing the new get-tough policy, Clear Channel President Mark Mays said the company is "serious about helping address the rising tide of indecency on the airwaves'' and will suspend any DJ whom the Federal Communications Commission proposes to fine.
"If we or the government ultimately determine the offending broadcast is indecent, the DJ will be terminated," Mays said.
From CNN:
"Clear Channel drew a line in the sand today with regard to protecting our listeners from indecent content, and Howard Stern's show blew right through it," Hogan said.
"It was vulgar, offensive and insulting, not just to women and African-Americans but to anyone with a sense of common decency."
The statement did not outline what parts of Stern's show ran afoul of the policy or how long the suspension might last.
As regular listener to the Howard Stern Show, the timing of this suspension is just too coincidental. If you hadn't heard, there is a presidential election coming up. After 9/11, Howard was very pro-Bush and very supportive of the war in Iraq. On one hand, he's gone through so many fines in the past that in recent years he's had to really pull in the reins. Time after time he's pointed out examples that other radio DJs and TV shows have gone much farther with "indecency" than he's allowed. Last week the Stern show was on vacation and came back on Monday to discuss, for the first time, his PRO-gay marriage opinions. Thinking out loud on the air, it was the first time he pulled together the issues of Janet Jackson's boob, the firing of another DJ for indecency, the religious right's influence on government and all the other issues swirling around.
Now here's the key to the whole story. Earlier this week was the first time Howard Stern indicated that he was not going to support Bush in the next election. Now that FCC Chairman Michael Powell (Secretary of State Colin Powell's son) has deregulated rules regarding radio and TV station ownership, it's now really easy for the government to make one phone call to a large radio syndicate like Clear Channel and get an opposing voice censored.
Howard Stern has been fighting these battles for many, many years. He's made a lot of money and has tons of projects outside of radio waiting for him after his contract expires in less than two years. He's made it clear that he wants to retire and would prefer that his contract gets bought out. The sad irony of this is that if he gets pulled off the air, he will probably only give a half-hearted fight.
Please spread the following statement as much as possible: Howard Stern is being suspended for his opposition to the president, not for indecency.
February 23, 2004
Wanted: Jake Andrews
I got this fan letter from a reader of GayPornBlog.com:
Hi!
Gay porn blog is quite an amazing discovery for such a gay video afficionado like me, so although I've missed lots of thing you had done here I hope the best is yet to come. Some other time I will lament about how hard and frustrating is it to get some gay porn in my sad corner of the world (the Balkans), but right know I would like to ask you do you have any info on Jake Andrews. In a way, my initiation in the realm of gay pornography (and thus my own gay experience) is closely relate to him - Aspen IV: The Rescue is the very first gay video I saw, and among all guys in that video it was Jake Andrews that fascinated me the most with his physique, versatility and something that I can not describe, some elusive factor X that makes him so irresistible (if you ask me). Somehow I managed to get two more videos with him in Idol Country and Matinee Idol and ever since he has the very speci al place at Olimpus of my favorite porn stars... Now, maybe I am not using the right sources of information on the Web, but I can not trace any information that he is still in the bussines. Do you know where is he these days, is he still connected to the gay pornography in any way, and is there any fan e-mail to reach him.
Pardon me for my not very good English,
Keep on rolling, and all the best,
n.
Dear Gentle Reader:
Thank you for writing. I had the pleasure of working with Jake Andrews on two occasions. First on a movie I directed called That Old Whorehouse, and also on a movie directed by Chi Chi LaRue called Link to Link. On both occasions he was very quiet and only interested in performing his job. I can't say I got to know him, because he was quite guarded. If I were a god like him, I wouldn't have time for mere mortals either.
All I know if him lately is that he moved to Australia several years ago, and I assume he's still there. I know he did a movie for Falcon called Good As Gold, featuring Matthew Rush competing at the Sydney Gay Games.
A few of his other movies are:
In Man's Country
Desire
Link
Stud Valley
I don't believe he has a website (otherwise you probably would have found it), and I don't believe he is actively pursueing a porn career right now.
UPDATE From John Rutherford at Colt:
Hello Mark,
I just came across the Jake Andrews piece on your site and wanted you to know that we'll be releasing this Summer a brand new Jake Andrews scene shot in Australia, directed by none other Kristofer Weston. Kristofer has joined the COLT Studio Group's team and will be directing the Buckshot Productions line of movies for us. Also, Jake's scene is with a hot Melbourne-ite who's dick even gagged Jake! Now, that's sayin' somethin'! ;)
Anyway, the movie is called, "Couples II" and also will contain a missing Ray Dragon scene with COLT favorite Felipe, that was shot over 10 years ago. Very sneak peak, but I thought it may add to your Jake Andrews topic on your site and interest your fans.
I hope you're well! Thanks for all your support!
Also, the "HOG" press kit will be coming out very soon!
Ciao for now,
JR
February 21, 2004
Eric Evans Strips
Eric Evans is a porn star that I worked with on two movies I directed (Laid For Work and Online Connections). He's done a zillion movies over the years, and he is still quite studly. He's about 5'10" and about 190 pounds of pure beef and fur. Woof!
Raging Stallion arranged to have him appear at the Powerhouse here in San Francisco on Valentine's Day, which also coincided with Bear Weekend. Although some would say Eric Evans is not a bear, he's the type that bears fantasize about or aspire to look like.
I shot 50 photos of him stripping and throwing tshirts to the crowd. In the photo shown here, Eric is on the right, but the guy on the left is Mr. Powerhouse. Ohmygod, is HE a hottie! I'm going to have to find out more about him!
February 20, 2004
Chris Steele Joins Falcon
From the Adult Video News Website:
Falcon Studios Names New Director of Production
By: Ken Knox
02-19-2004
SAN FRANCISCO - Popular gay adult video star Chris Steele has been tapped for the Director of Production position at Falcon Studios. He follows industry legends John Rutherford and Steven Scarborough in this high visibility assignment. Steele, who has been working with the Falcon production department for several years, will oversee all aspects of video production, including casting and script development, and will work with directors on concepts and the execution of each release for all the Falcon lines.
"I'm very privileged to be working in such a very important position with what I consider to be the top studio in the gay adult industry," Steele told AVN.com in an exclusive interview Thursday. "I'm looking forward to continuing the Falcon legacy of producing quality movies and videos. And while I've been working with this studio for many years, I'm excited to be moving up to this position."
Steele began his XXX career in late 1998 as an exclusive for Studio 2000, and has since appeared in numerous releases for a wide array of studios, including All Worlds Video, Massive Studio, and Rascal Video. His directorial debut was the 2000 GAYVN-nominated Steele Pole. He has since fashioned a side career as a prolific screenwriter. His scripts include Rascal's Below the Rim, Detention, and A Man's Tail. His most recent work in front of the camera for Falcon Studios includes Aftershock 1-2.
Of Steele's appointment, Falcon President and CFO Terry Mahaffey told AVN.com, "My initial impression of Chris was formed four years ago during the filming of Shock 2. I was pleased to see how his easygoing style and comfort in leading people made such a difference to that set. It's been truly wonderful to watch Chris continue to grow in his behind-the-lens endeavors these past few years. I have the utmost confidence that his poise, professionalism, and can-do attitude will be a great asset to Falcon, and that Chris will soon be recognized as one of—if not the—industry's best production directors."
See Chris Steele in action:
by Mustang
Gloryholes of Chicago by Oh Man!
Pride by All Worlds
February 19, 2004
Muscle Bear Cub
I just added 240 shots of Scotty Cubb to my new muscle bear cub model. What do you think?
Yes, I know a lot of guys like twinks, and a lot of guys like muscle heads with single-digit percent body fat. But, there's a zillion and one web sites featuring those type of conventional beauties. How can I, as a webmaster, compete with that?
I ran into Scotty at International Bear Rendevouz last week and among that subculture, he is very, very popular. He's an example of an alternative guy that I would like to feature on my site, so that I have something a little different to offer my customers. I'm hoping to find more models that fit the description of "muscle bear cub".
February 18, 2004
HOG: The Leather File
Press Release:
HOG: The Leather File
A John Rutherford Feature
THE STORY
Experience 13 of the hottest
COLT MEN
Muscular. Hung. Natural.
HOG: The Leather File is the essence of COLT.
A smack across your ass... a hand twisting your tits... a stiff cock forcing your hole open... you know what turns you on, and so does John Rutherford.
This new feature captures the intensity of sex between men who live their lives in leather on bikes known as HOGS. Join COLT Men Exclusives Adam Dexter and Dave Angelo along with Russian sensation Andreas Stern as they explore leather, cigar smoking, spitting, dildos, bondage, plus all the fucking, double penetration, sucking and big cocks you'd expect. In the world of HOG: The Leather File, John Rutherford creates a place - a safe place where leather is a way of life, a place where sex is a struggle for power and control, and a place where all the men are COLT Men!
Will you ever be prepared for the exhilarating shock of having this high-voltage sexual intensity at your command? And once you've experienced the raw sensuality, will you ever be able to get enough? Try, if you dare.
Join COLT Men Exclusives Adam Dexter, Dave Angelo, and International superstar Andreas Stern along with 10 other defiant, unleashed leather men including Leo Bramm, Derek Cameron, Todd Maxwell, Toby O�Connor, Jake Marshall, Hal Rodman, Diego De La Hoya, Tony Dancer, Ross Taylor, and Bo Taylor. HOG: The Leather File has raised the bar by which all other leather movies will be judged.
February 17, 2004
Colt Eye Candy
A little of what was, what is and what will be for 2004! Bringing in the new year with the many colors of the world here at COLT Studio Group! See the COLT Men of 2004 attached!
Carlo Masi (Italy), Edu Boxer (Spain), Tod Parker (Texas), Adam Dexter (Michigan), Dave Angelo (Montreal) and last but not least COLT Man from the past - makes his 10 years later comeback - Karim (New York)! This is the COLT Factor!
February 16, 2004
Bad Tourists
I've been thinking of my travel plans for the year. These are the necessities:
GayVN Awards - Los Angeles - March 11
Phoenix Forum (adult webmaster convention) - Phoenix - March 31
Bad Boys Pool Party - Palm Springs - May 8
International Mr. Leather - Chicago - May 27
Lazy Bear Weekend - Guerneville - July 14
Internext - Ft. Lauderdale - August
Other than that, I would SOMEday like to visit Provincetown, Fire Island and New York.
The last time I was in New York was before the World Trade Center was BUILT. I've heard it's changed since then.
While on the subject, here's some pictures of Bad Tourists.
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February 14, 2004
Wedding Bells and Bears
It was quite a day yesterday.
Gay folks in relationships here in San Francisco are all racing to City Hall to get their marriage license before it gets nullified. A restraining order could be in place as early as Tuesday, so in the meantime the License Bureau is staying open all weekend to get as many processed as possible. Use this link for an eye witness account with photos: http://www.authenti-city.com/friday.htm
To celebrate this history-making event, the guys from Guerilla Queer Bar brought a DJ to throw a spontaneous party in the Castro last night. With such short notice, nobody knew about it and it kinda flopped. On top of that, the old fogeys in the neighborhood complained about the noise.
It did give me a chance to hang with 3 couples that got hitched that day. They had all done "committment ceremonies" at home and even did the "faux wedding" at City Hall with Willie Brown. Each said this one was "different" and felt more real. They came down to the Castro right after their wedding dinner ("Our reception cost $50 a plate! We even ordered dessert wine!"), and talked about getting the Honeymoon Suite at Steamworks.
Another reason that the Castro was a ghost town was because everyone was South of Market for Bear Rendevous. I wandered down to the Eagle to check it. It was a festive crowd, but I always feel out of place there lately if I go alone, so I didn't stay long. Naturally, the hottest guys were not bears. Standing in front of me in the drink line were two skinny alternative boys in a lip lock. Certainly not bears, but WOOF, they were hot, and attracted a lot of attention from the bears.
Over the years I've discovered the sad fact that most bears aren't really into other bears. Most bears are attracted to the same type of men that every other gay man is attracted to. AS proof of my theory, look at the flyer below. Do you see guys like Carl Hardwick running around at bear events, or is it just wishful thinking? (I think he's straight, too.) Creating a "community" for bears is a step in the right direction for eroticizing another alternative look, but there is still a long way to go to make larger, hairy guys more widely accepted as sexy.
I picked up this flyer at the Eagle, and although it's the first I've heard of it, it sounds great. Mark you calendar for Sunday, August 15 for the first Bear Street Fair.
February 12, 2004
Boy Dumps Boy
Remember that little show last summer on Bravo, "Boy Meets Boy"? I admit I was glued to the set for that whole embarrassing mess, but I loved every minute of it. There was behind-the-scenes drama of the star, James, getting pissed off at the producers for throwing him a curve by included straight guys. Afterward, he talked about it on a different show that exposed how reality shows are created.
But that wasn't the only controversy. There were rumors after the show ended that James and the winner, Wes, went through the motions to win the prize money, then went their separate ways. Well, I just got an email promoting a gay cruise that says, Join celebrity hosts Robb McArthur and Brian Hay from Bravo's hit series 'Boy Meets Boy' for this unique and rare weekend cruise experience! Looks like two of the runners-up were the real winners, cause he hooked up with each other instead of James. Confused? So am I.
Okay, in this pre-Valentine week, I'm going to hit you with my Carrie Bradshaw "Sex In The City" style rhetorical questions.
Why is it so difficult to find a good man, and why is it always such an icky mess even if you do? Even with a little bit of outside help, why is it that dating is such a disaster?
Is dating reserved for only the young and cute? Is there (dating) life after 40, or do you have to pay for it? Can love exist past a 34" waist? Why can't hooking up be as easy as they show in porn videos? Will all these questions be answered before Valentine's Day, or at least by the last episode?
February 11, 2004
February 10, 2004
Defense of Marriage
From: Protestants for the Common Good
In Defense of Biblical Marriage
The Presidential Prayer Team is currently urging us to: "Pray for the
President as he seeks wisdom on how to legally codify the definition of
marriage. Pray that it will be according to Biblical principles. With any
forces insisting on variant definitions of marriage, pray that God's Word
and His standards will be honored by our government." This is true.
Any good religious person believes prayer should be balanced by action.
So
here, in support of the Prayer Team's admirable goals, is a proposed
Constitutional Amendment codifying marriage entirely on biblical
principles:
A. Marriage in the United States shall consist of a union between one man
and one or more women. (Gen 29:17-28; II Sam 3:2-5)
B. Marriage shall not impede a man's right to take concubines, in
addition
to his wife or wives. (II Sam 5:13; I Kings 11:3; II Chron 11:21)
C. A marriage shall be considered valid only if the wife is a virgin. If
the
wife is not a virgin, she shall be executed. (Deut 22:13-21)
D. Marriage of a believer and a non-believer shall be forbidden. (Gen
24:3;
Num 25:1-9; Ezra 9:12; Neh 10:30)
E. Since marriage is for life, neither this Constitution nor the
constitution of any State, nor any state or federal law, shall be
construed
to permit divorce. (Deut 22:19; Mark 10:9)
F. If a married man dies without children, his brother shall marry the
widow. If he refuses to marry his brother's widow or deliberately does
not
give her children, he shall pay a fine of one shoe, and be otherwise
punished in a manner to be determined by law. (Gen. 38:6-10; Deut
25:5-10)
G. In lieu of marriage, if there are no acceptable men in your town, it
is
required that you get your dad drunk and have sex with him (even if he
had
previously offered you up as a sex toy to men young and old), tag-teaming
with any sisters you may have. Of course, this rule applies only if you
are
female. (Gen 19:31-36)
February 9, 2004
Bad Boys Pool Party 2004
It's getting close to that time of year again. Preparations are in full swing for the next Bad Boys Pool Party in Palm Springs, again featuring the biggest gay porn stars in the business today. See the Press Release below:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
9 FEBRUARY 2004
WEBSITE: http://www.badboyspoolparty.com
CONTACT:
WILL CLARK Bad Boys Pool Party Producer
To become a cash, product or media sponsor: WillClark3@aol.com
Mailing List requests and Fan/Guest inquiries: WillClark1@aol.com
TICKETS: Call L.A. Shanti at (323) 962 8197 and ask for "Ethel" or go to L.A. Shanti website at http://www.lashanti.org
DON’T JUST GET WET, GET SOAKIN’ WET! (ARE YOU SOAKING IN IT YET?)
(Palm Springs, CA) This year, we’re not just going to get wet, we’re going to get soaking wet as Will Clark’s 4th Annual Bad Boys Pool Party – Palm Springs Edition once again descends upon Palm Springs and surrounding communities!! Presented by the fine folks at ID LUBE http://www.idlube.com, PRIDE NATION http://www.pridenation.com and MY GAY DAR http://www.mygaydar.com this party is sure to be remembered for years to come! Where else will you see CHI CHI LARUE, KEN RYKER and PEPPER MASHAY all in the same weekend?
On Saturday May 8th, from 1pm to 6pm, the party will once again take center stage at the historic Cree Estate (aka "Wally World") in Palm Springs/Cathedral City (located at 67698 Carey Road, Cathedral City, 92234) for an afternoon of fun, frolic and fundraising for one of the country’s oldest AIDS service organizations.
Founded in 1983, L.A. Shanti was the first non-profit organization in Southern California to provide direct services to diverse communities affected by HIV/AIDS. L.A. Shanti’s focus is to empower those living with HIV/AIDS and other life-threatening illnesses to have the fullest lives possible and to provide prevention education in the face of the spread of this epidemic. All of L.A. Shanti’s services, from its cutting-edge HIV prevention programs for youth to the highly acclaimed PLUS (Positive Living for US) empowerment weekend seminars are based on the Shanti Model of compassionate presence, active listening, and a non-judgmental attitude. Efficient operation and assistance from over 600 volunteers enables L.A. Shanti to provide services at twice the value of every contributed dollar. More information can be found on Shanti’s website at http://www.lashanti.org
This year the event is chockablock with a wide variety of performers who will create an amazing day for you to enjoy – the day is led by returning MC’s drag diva MOMMA http://www.outofthecloset.tv and gay gossip columnist BILLY MASTERS http://www.filth2go.com and will feature entertainment by -
International dance diva PEPPER MASHAY http://www.peppermashay.com who appears courtesy of Stephen Ford entertainment, IRENE SODERBERG http://www.imirene.com who has just debuted a new album that you can find on her site, and our newest friend and host of Palm Springs’ “Yellow Brick Road” gay/lesbian cable show, singer DANA ADKINS.
Gay adult performers making appearances throughout the day include KEN RYKER http://www.kenryker.com who now has his own video company -- as well as BILLY BRANDT http://www.billybrandtentertainment.com, BRET WOLFE http://www.bretwolfe.com, BRYCE PIERCE http://www.brycepierce.com, CAESAR http://www.caesarworld.com, DEACON FROST, JAKE GIANELLI http://www.jakegianelli.com, KYLE KENNEDY, MARK WOLFF http://www.markwolff.com, MICHAEL BRANDON http://www.xxxmichaelbrandon.com, MICHAEL KNIGHT http://www.michaelknight.net, MICHAEL SOLDIER http://www.michaelsoldier.com, RIK JAMMER http://www.rikjammer.com, ROCKY, SAM TYSON http://www.samtyson.com, SHANE ROLLINS http://www.shanerollins.com, SIMON COX and a return to the event by the legendary SPIKE who will amaze us again with his amazing bodypainting artistry.
Performing throughout the afternoon will be returning Bad Boys favorites, DINO PHILIPS http://www.greatdaneprod.com, HAWK MCALLISTAR http://www.hawkmcallistar.com, KEVIN KRAMER http://www.kevinkramer.us, and direct from Las Vegas, TONY DANCER.
Additionally we will have the skilled talents of the best flaggers from Palm Springs’ own Heaven nightclub, our open bar, food and a wide assortment of the best massage therapists in the area.
Corey from Pride Nation will be our DJ this year – and those of you who have heard his mixing know you’re in for a terrific treat!
Also, Alyson Books authors Parker Ray (GOING DOWN, HOW TO GET LAID) and Jonathan Bass (101 GAY SEX SECRETS) will be on hand to share tips, tricks, and how-to's on reducing your boyfriend to a quivering pile of lust.
And we haven’t even mentioned the two pools, two hot tubs and silent auction items that are sure to make you quiver in.. anticipation!
Further, JODIE HART will once again read the Tarot, the SISTERS OF PERPETUAL INDULGENCE http://www.lasisters.org from Los Angeles will bless the event, Palm Springs’ IVANA TRAMP will work the crowd passing out rubbers (cuz we promote safer sex) and JASON SECHREST http://www.jasoncurious.com will join us for some porn star interviews throughout the day.
Special features throughout the day will include filming from Club Channel One for a future edition, a photo session by Foto Factory photographer David Sprigle and an art exhibit from various photographers that can be purchased at the event.
Our Big Kahuna sponsors include BIG BLUE PRODUCTIONS http://www.blueblake.com, GAYVIDEOSTORE.COM http://www.gayvideostore.com, JET SET STUDIOS http://www.jetsetmen.com, RAGING STALLION STUDIOS http://www.ragingstallion.com and RYKER FILMS http://www.kenryker.com
Our Surf Doggie sponsors include returning sponsors NakedSword http://www.nakedsword.com, Harry Bitsch http://www.cockring.org, Laxtra http://www.n2mansex.com, Channel 1 Releasing http://www.channel1releasing.com, Great Dane Productions http://www.greatdaneprod.com, Pacific Sun http://www.gaymagix.com as well as new sponsors Red Devil Entertainment http://www.reddevilentertainment.com, Billy Brandt Entertainment http://www.billybrandtentertainment.com and In Touch magazine which celebrates 30 years in publication. Finally of course one of our most special sponsors will again strut her stuff, Miss Sondra Von Smirnoff will regale partygoers with her special talents.
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February 8, 2004
February 7, 2004
Mad About the "Boi"
Nuances of gay identities reflected in new language 'Homosexual' is passé in a 'boi's' life
Rona Marech, Chronicle Staff Writer
Sunday, February 8, 2004
First, there was the term "homosexual," then "gay" and "lesbian," then the once taboo "dyke" and "queer."
Now, all bets are off.
With the universe of gender and sexual identities expanding, a gay youth culture emerging, acceptance of gays rising and label loyalty falling, the gay lexicon has exploded with scores of new words and blended phrases that delineate every conceivable stop on the identity spectrum -- at least for this week.
Someone who is "genderqueer," for example, views the gender options as more than just male and female or doesn't fit into the binary male-female system. A "trannydyke" is a transgender person (whose gender is different than the one assigned at birth) attracted to people with a more feminine gender, while a "pansexual" is attracted to people of multiple genders. A "boi" describes a boyish gay guy or a biological female with a male presentation; and "heteroflexible" refers to a straight person with a queer mind-set.
The list of terms -- which have hotly contested definitions -- goes on: "FTM" for female to male, "MTF" for male to female, "boydyke," "trannyboy," "trannyfag," "multigendered," "polygendered," "queerboi," "transboi," "transguy," "transman," "half-dyke," "bi-dyke," "stud," "stem," "trisexual," "omnisexual," and "multisexual."
"The language thing is tricky," said Thom Lynch, the director of the San Francisco Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Community Center. "I feel sorry for straight people."
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Tricky, maybe, but also healthy and empowering, said Carolyn Laub, the director of the Gay-Straight Alliance Network, which links gay and lesbian student clubs in the state.
"We in society and in our generation are developing new understandings of sexual orientation and gender identities and what that means to us," she said. "We don't really have enough language to describe that; therefore, we have to create new words."
For those back in the linguistic dark ages still wondering what's wrong with "homosexual," the evolution of queer identity language has progressed something like this: "Homosexual" sounded pathological and clinical, so activists went about creating their own words, starting with "gay" and "lesbian." That was well and good, but terms like "dyke" and "queer" had an appealing spikiness and served double-duty by stripping the sting from words that had heretofore been considered unspeakably nasty.
The adjustment took time for some: As recently as 2002, visitors at the San Francisco community center routinely complained about a sign proudly pronouncing it "the queerest place on earth," Lynch said. But in the Bay Area, in the age of "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy," that sort of sensitivity is beginning to seem almost quaint. Even some straight people have adopted the word because they have gay parents or an affinity for gay culture.
These days, "queer" is especially handy because it's vague enough to encompass just about everyone. The word and its newfangled linguistic cousins have become indispensable as the transgender population in the Bay Area has grown exponentially -- into the tens of thousands, advocates say -- and sexual identities have become increasingly complicated.
"If you're not a man or woman, words like 'gay' or 'lesbian' don't fit you anymore," said Sam Davis, founder of United Genders of The Universe, a support group and speakers bureau. "The words from just a few years ago aren't adequate to talk about who we are, where we're coming from and who we like."
Dee Braur, a 17-year-old with a tuft of greenish hair, calls herself "half-dyke." "I'm bisexual but I lean more toward women than men," she said. Men, she added, annoy her.
"Trisexual" also works, she said with a snicker: "I'll try anything once and if I like it, I'll try it again and again and again."
Andy Duran, 19, said: "People are feeling like, what's the point of labeling? If I must label, let me create my own."
That said, Duran uses "queer" -- among others -- because "it's the one that leaves the most for discovery. ... It's not really limiting. I can date a woman or a man. I can date someone who's transgender or genderqueer."
Tiffany Solomon, who is 19 and technically a lesbian, is put off by the word "lesbian."
"I think of a shorthaired woman who wears flannel. It's bad to a degree, but it's something that becomes embedded when you're young and queer and look on TV and you only have stereotypes to go on," she said. She calls herself a "metrosexual" -- the word used to describe straight men who have a gay sensibility when it comes to fashion and grooming -- because she also identifies with gay male culture.
Justin, who is 19 and didn't want to use his last name because he's not out to his family as transgender, calls himself a "boi" -- with an "i" -- because he feels like a boy -- with a "y" -- but "I don't have the boy parts, as much I wish I did."
"I'm still learning the ropes of just being me," he added.
Lynn Breedlove, a musician and author, spent years as a "butch dyke," but nowadays, he prefers to interchange pronouns and, depending on his mood, goes back and forth between the old label and "trannyboy." "Because I'm like Peter Pan -- eternally youthful but I'm always played by a girl," Breedlove said. "It's more a faggy aesthetic thing. I don't want hair on my face and chest. Ooh, I don't want to be transman -- that sounds really furry."
While Breedlove is old enough to have an age complex -- he explained his refusal to divulge his age as a "rock star thing" -- a lot of the identity fluidity, name mania and word invention is bubbling up from the next generation of queer youth.
"Now that community resources are in place and public acceptance has increased, it's more feasible for adolescents to come out during adolescence," said Caitlin Ryan, a researcher at San Francisco State University who has studied lesbian, gay and bisexual youth. "What we're getting in the LGBT community is the power of youth. It's their expression and exuberance and energy and also their contribution to the culture."
It makes sense that youth, in particular, are coming up with new words and trying them on, considering that "identity development is one of the most important developmental tasks of adolescence," she said.
Growing acceptance of gays and lesbians has also encouraged idiosyncrasy, Ryan said. "Identities are very personal. That was much less true 20 years ago, when identity was more around community. Now that there's a community, a vibrant one with resources, there's more room for personal identity. Before, the tribe was so much more important," she said.
To further complicate matters, race and ethnicity affect who is using which words. Some people of color prefer the word "stud" to "butch," meaning a masculine-identified lesbian. Which makes someone who falls between a stud and a femme -- a more "feminine" lesbian -- a "stem."
And genderbending and genderqueerness aren't as prevalent among people of color, said Mateo Cruz, who's Latino and a staff member at the Pacific Center, Berkeley's LGBT center.
In these communities, "queer" and the terms it spawned have a reputation of being "white," so some shy away from them in favor of "same-gender-loving people" or "men who sleep with men," or -- among Spanish-speakers -- "homosexual," which is also a Spanish word.
"A lot of the stereotypes of what a 'queer' person is supposed to be, especially in mainstream media, is always a white person," said Solomon, who is African American. "A lot of issues people of color have with their families is their parents are saying, 'If you're gay, then you want to be white.' Because that's all they see. So yeah, 'queer' is not a word that a lot of people of color use."
No wonder Cruz sometimes grows frustrated when he leads discussions about appropriate language in anti-homophobia workshops. It can take an hour for his savviest students to list the "hundreds" of words they know for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people. Then the discussion about what the words mean, who can use them and whether they're polite, often drags on ad nauseam.
When Cruz's coding system -- circles, big X's and dotted lines to connote cool, uncool, and sometimes-cool terms -- inevitably breaks down, he throws up his hands.
"However people self-identify," he tells students, "we have to respect."
Ann Miller's Obituary
Below is Ann Miller's Obituary written by Rex Reed. You youngsters better read up, you're going to be tested on this. For anyone over 35 reading this, if you don't know Ann Miller, turn in your Gay Card.
She Never Stopped Dancing
by Rex Reed
"Tops in taps, honey, tops in taps!" With quotes like that, Ann Miller was always her best press agent. When she died on Jan. 22, another nail was hammered into the coffin of movie history—especially the chapter about those splashy, glamorous Technicolor musicals so many of us grew up on. In the court of MGM, in the reign of King Louis B. Mayer, Annie Crow—or Annie Pie, as the other members of the legendary MGM stock company called her—was royalty. She couldn’t sing like Judy or swim like Esther, but they couldn’t machine-gun tap, either. She loved the spotlight, she loved the attention, she loved the camera, and she loved to dance. I once took her to a Fourth of July picnic with an American Revolution theme on a farm in Bucks County and, to the delight of the guests, she danced all the way across a cornfield and into the barn draped in the stars and stripes of the American flag, calling herself "Betsy Ross on steroids." God, she made me laugh.
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She was born Johnnie Lucille Ann Collier from Chireno, Tex., and she died Ann Miller from Broadway and Beverly Hills. But first and last, she was a hoofer all her life. And she never tired of the fun and fame that went with it. The night after she opened in Sugar Babies in 1979, 40 years after she first appeared in George White’s Scandals, the biggest, brightest and perkiest new star on Broadway sat in the middle of the floor talking as fast as she tapped about how it felt to be the toast of the town. "Rex Harrison came backstage last night. I’ve got his old dressing room from My Fair Lady. Katharine Hepburn and Melina Mercouri had their behinds in that room, too. They put in a new toilet for me and everything! Richard Avedon is photographing me for Vogue, I’m being interviewed tomorrow for eight hours by People magazine, I’m doing a ‘What Makes a Legend’ ad for Blackglama mink, and I’m so thrilled about having dinner with Ethel Merman I could wet my britches!"
It started, as most things did in my life, with an interview. Then it grew into a friendship that lasted 25 years. Revisiting old notes and interview tapes collected through the years brought back a lot of memories this week. Piecing together the crooked little pieces that formed the colorful jigsaw called Ann Miller was a part-time frolic that was never dull. At her funeral last week in Hollywood, even the priest was confused about her age. (She converted to Catholicism on her death bed.) The books said she was born in 1919, but Annie said it was really 1925, claiming she had to lie about her age as a child to get dancing jobs to support herself and her strict, domineering backstage mother, Clara. Her father was a famous Texas criminal lawyer who represented Bonnie and Clyde. When she was 6, he took her to the state prison where she sat on "Pretty Boy" Floyd’s lap while he drew a picture of a peacock for her with Crayolas. I mean, who could make these things up?
When she was 10, she took tap lessons to cure a case of rickets. One night she came home from her grandmother’s house and found Daddy in bed with another woman, and Johnnie Lucille said, "Mother, pack your bags!" They moved to California, where they hocked their car, their clothes, everything to stay alive. She used to do her little tap act for $5 a night for the Lions Club, and when she was only 11 she told the boss of a seedy dive called the Black Cat Club she was 18 and he hired her. "When the customers threw coins on the floor, I got down on my knees, scooped them up and put them in my tap skirt, and that’s what we ate on. We were so hungry one year that a neighbor baked a chocolate cake and that’s all we had for Christmas dinner."
Former Hattie Carnegie hat model Lucille Ball discovered her and got her a job in 1939 in Too Many Girls. It was Annie who introduced the popsicle-haired star to Desi Arnaz. In 1969, after the collapse of the MGM era, she was the sixth Auntie Mame to follow Angela Lansbury in Mame. And in the 30 years between, there were fabulous musicals like Easter Parade, On the Town, Lovely to Look At and Kiss Me, Kate. "I have worked like a dog all my life," she told me once, brushing away a rare tear, "and, honey, I am here to tell you that dancing, as Fred Astaire said, is next to ditch-digging. You sweat and slave and, in my case, you sprain, twist and break every bone in your body, and the audience doesn’t think you’ve got a brain in your head. So every time a good-looking millionaire came along chasing me with cars and chinchillas, I married him because he always promised I’d never have to dance again."
There were three of them, but she never stopped dancing. The first one was the heir to Consolidated Steel. "Listen, honey, he gave me the biggest ranch in California, next to San Simeon, and we raised prize Herefords for show cattle. Six weeks later, I realized the whole thing was a total disaster when he pushed me down a flight of stairs while I was pregnant and broke my back and I had a miscarriage. Louis B. Mayer said, ‘If you’d married me, none of this would have happened.’ So I dated Howard Hughes instead." Still recovering from the broken back inflicted by the steel baron, she whirled through the show-stopping "Shaking the Blues Away" number in Easter Parade in a back brace.
Twelve years later, she married millionaire No. 2, a Texas oil tycoon "who looked exactly like the first husband. Three months later, he broke my arm." The third marriage was annulled. "He was the nicest guy of them all, but he died." So she immersed herself in her work. "I knew the end was coming when they stopped making musicals and forced me to play Dean Jones’ mother in a baseball picture called The Great American Pastime. I said, ‘I’m not playing anybody’s mother, and screw you!’ That was 1956, and it was my last picture. Mr. Mayer wasn’t chasing me around the furniture anymore, and MGM was no longer any fun. But while it lasted, MGM was the greatest fraternity of all time." Even when former MGM stars like Esther Williams, Jane Powell, Elizabeth Taylor and Mickey Rooney expressed public bitterness over their old studio days, Annie remained loyal. She was MGM’s traveling ambassador for years, claiming she even smuggled frozen funds out of Jerusalem on the Arab side for the studio. "After 12 years there, I owed them something! Honey, let me tell you, when MGM fell, all of Hollywood fell. That was the end of an era."
When MGM faded, so did many of the eight-by-10 MGM glossies. Not Ann Miller: She headed for TV and did Stan Freberg’s now-famous most expensive commercial ever conceived for Great American Soups, dancing on top of an eight-foot can of soup surrounded by 20-foot water fountains, a parade of chorus girls and a 24-piece orchestra, tapping her way into the kitchen, where her husband moans: "Why must you make such a big production out of everything?" She’s been making a big production out of everything all her life. "My fans write me, ‘Thank you for keeping glamour alive!’, and I won’t even go down to the hotel lobby to piddle my poodle without full makeup and a 10-pound Ann Miller wig. But sometimes, honey, you just gotta get outta the blue sequins and just be plain old Lucille Collier from Texas again. I am plumb worn out trying to be cute!"
But she was laugh-out-loud funny even when she didn’t know it. In her dressing room on the opening night of a summer revival of Panama Hattie, I told her I was perplexed because she never sang the show’s most famous song, "Make It Another Old-Fashioned, Please." "Oh, honey, can’t do that," she shot back in her Texas Guinan accent. "I tried it in previews and got protest letters. I have a pure image, ya see, and my fans will not tolerate me with a drink in my hand." She was serious. "Anyway, what this show needs is a big tropical-fruit number. It’s Panama. It’s hot. I see myself tapping in bananas and cherries. But those people who run the Cole Porter estate are the rudest people on earth. I wrote to them asking for permission to put ‘Heat Wave’ in the show, and they never even had the courtesy to reply." I countered with: "But, Annie, ‘Heat Wave’ was written by Irving Berlin!" She gasped, her Nefertiti eye makeup widening her irises to the size of the pyramids. "Oh my God, honey, you just know everything! I’ll bet that’s why those Cole Porter people never answered my letter!"
Her naïve humor made her the butt of so many Ann Miller jokes that her gaffes were legendary. Filling out insurance forms for Mame, when she came to the blank listing "profession", she wrote "STAR." Halfway through an Oscar Hammerstein benefit in L.A., she turned to her escort and asked if anybody had seen Oscar. "Ann," replied her astonished date, "Oscar Hammerstein died in 1960!" "Well, how would I know?" shot back Our Girl Annie. "I’ve been on the road!" When Ari, the ill-fated Broadway musical of Leon Uris’ novel Exodus, was announced, she even rang up the producers and asked if she could audition for the part of Jackie Onassis. Nobody laughed at those stories more than Annie herself. "I’m just a dingbat, I guess," she once giggled to me. "But so what? At least I’m not a Communist."
Instead, she firmly believed in the spiritual world, was often visited at night by the ghost of MGM dancing idol Eleanor Powell and insisted she lived in a former century as Hatshepsut, the first Queen of Egypt. "I’ve been recycled many times, honey. My hand has so many lifelines, it looks like an old monkey’s paw. I’ve drawn pictures of camels, palm trees and mummies since I was 3 years old, and how would I know about that if I didn’t once live there?" She visited Egypt three times and spent every trip crying her eyes out. The last time, the curator of the Cairo Museum personally escorted her all the way to the tomb of a female pharaoh and, when she walked through the door to approach the sarcophagus, she claimed she was bitten by the same kind of viper that killed Cleopatra. Never mind that no asp has been seen in the Valley of the Kings since 1,200 B.C. Ann Miller was flown out in a helicopter, spent three weeks in a hospital and nearly died. "It was a warning," she said. "The spirits don’t want me to return there."
Instead, she moved Egypt to Hollywood. The bedroom of her house on Alta Drive was a $20,000 Egyptian throne room populated by stuffed lions—not because of nostalgia for MGM’s Leo, but because she believed they protected her in a former life. Well, what do you want from a star who got knocked in the head by a steel beam on the opening night of Anything Goes in St. Louis, didn’t walk for two years and suffered from vertical vertigo every time she tapped until the day she died? They laughed at her lacquered Ann Miller wigs, but wearing one is what saved her life that night.
But when the wigs were in their boxes, the fans and autograph collectors were in their beds and the applause was silent, Johnnie Lucille Collier was herself at last. She made one final movie appearance in David Lynch’s bizarro crime melodrama Mulholland Drive and phoned me to say, "I can’t wait to read your review of this thing. Maybe you can explain it to me. The business is in the toilet, honey, but as long as I can stand up, I just say, ‘Point me in the right direction and get out of the way.’" Alone and suffering from crippling osteoporosis, her final days were sad, but she never once admitted she was down for the count. After her funeral, Esther Williams said, "She was lucky, because the entire focus of her life was her work and her career. She was unsullied by the stress and misery of domestic strife some stars go through after the career is over." This was not entirely true. The last time I talked to her, she confessed her only regret in life was never having children or a marriage that worked or someone to make the end less lonely, "because no matter what you’ve achieved, honey, if you’re not loved, you ain’t nothing but a hound dog." She still talked about a comeback, commanding her feet to dance, but her legs would no longer obey. "I can still tap," said flamboyant octogenarian Ann Miller. "But who wants to pay an old lady to tap sitting down?"
You may reach Rex Reed via email at: rreed@observer.com.
February 6, 2004
Reagan is the Anti-Christ
Today is Ronald Reagan's 93rd birthday. Reagan is the anti-Christ and I can prove it.
Count the letters in R-o-n-a-l-d W-i-l-s-o-n R-e-a-g-a-n.
666
93rd birthday on 02/06/04
Add the month and the year, you get 6.
9 minus 3, you get 6.
9 plus 3 divide by two (for the Second Coming), you get 6.
Beware of 6:06 am and 6:06 pm when all Hell breaks loose.
Sounds scary don't it? See, this is how those wacky religions get started.
Chad Hunt Re-surfaces
Porn star Chad Hunt posted a couple comments last night here on GayPornBlog and I thought I should re-run them. I've only met him briefly, but he seems like a really nice guy. Too bad he's way out on the East Coast.
We have a running joke about Chad Hunt on the ReelGuys TV show. Chi Chi loves to have Chad Hunt show up in the middle of an ongoing fuck scene, say some goofy line completely out of context, then jump into the scene. We've seen that done in three different movies!
Good luck at the awards!
Here's what Chad wrote:
WOW ... Thanks for all the votes for Performer of the Year!, and in the other categories.... It's nice to know that what you do is enjoyed by people.... I had a great Year with such good Bottoms as Tag Adams to add to my list of favorite Co-workers...
I'm missed, I feel special now! ... Sorry I haven't posted in ages guys but I have been enjoying time to myself lately.... Just for an update I recently headed back to the gym and am trying to make myself gain a little mass for returning to videos this year... I wanted to thank anyone who voted for me in the Adams report end of year best lists... I will be at The GAYVN awards this year where I have a total of three nominations... two for group scene and one for best sex scene with Tag Adams in "Detention" from Rascal Video... All though I did 14 movies last year I somehow got left out of the Performer of The Year nomination but hey I guess you can't be in the running every Year...LOL Hope everyone is well and playing safe ...
XOXO
CHAD HUNT
February 5, 2004
Josh Weston, Barrett Long on TV
The (Occasional) Weekly Report returns to NakedSword.com with appearances by Falcon's Josh Weston and big-dicked newcomer Barrett Long (the episode was shot in December). Plus a January episode with a Hawaiian theme show. Check out the HUGE arms Josh Weston has built over the winter months!
The Weekly Report goes Hawaiian! Join Tim and Roma! as they celebrate NakedSword's 2004 Cybersocket award for Best Pay-Per-View Site. Directors Steven Scarborough and John Rutherford join the Weekly Report team to celebrate Tim's birthday: he turns the big three-oh! And, as always, we've crammed the episode full of porn-tastic stuff. Special hot guests include two yummy porn stars: newcomer Diego De La Hoya, who can be seen in COLT Studio's latest release "HOG, The Leather File" and Collin O'Neal from Hot House Entertainment. Did we mention that the taping of the Weekly Report was being taped by a German television film crew?
It's a party. No it's a soir�e, or is it a fiesta! Whatever it is, it's BIG and it's Roma!'s birthday. In honor of her "sweet sixteen" we have assembled quite a collection of porn stars and industry elites. Be sure to check out this special birthday edition of the Weekly Report with special guests: Josh Weston, Barrett Long, Doug Jeffries and new Falcon director Mike Youens!
February 3, 2004
GayVN Nominations
CHATSWORTH, Calif. - Forty-seven studios and 102 individual performers, directors, screenwriters, composers, directors, and videographers are nominated for the 2004 GAYVN Awards.
Honoring excellence in the gay and bisexual adult video industry, GAYVN, the Gay and Bisexual section of AVN magazine, has presented its own awards show in Los Angeles since 1999.
All Worlds Video heads the studio list with 19 nominations in 16 categories. Falcon Studios, Rascal Video/Channel 1 Releasing , and Titan Media follow closely with 17 nominations each.
Jet Set Productions' The Hole and All Worlds Video's There Goes the Neighborhood are the movie nominations leaders with nine nods each, including the Best Video and Best Sex Comedy categories. Gorge from Titan Media and Arena Entertainment's Sex Psycho are the second most-nominated titles with eight citations each.
The complete list of nominees can be found at GAYVNAwards.com.
Winners will be announced on March 11 at the 6th Annual GAYVN Awards Show at The Rage nightclub in West Hollywood, Calif. Attendance at the invitation-only event is limited to nominated individuals and studios.
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2004 GAYVN Awards Nominations
Best Actor
Tag Eriksson, The Hole (Jet Set Productions)
Joe Foster, A Man's Tail (Rascal Video/Channel 1 Releasing)
Paul Johnson, There Goes the Neighborhood (All Worlds Video)
Lance Landers, Dear Dick (All Worlds Video)
Jason McCain, Sex Psycho (Arena Entertainment)
Jason Ridge, Nasty Nasty (Red Devil Entertainment)
Rob Romoni, Canvas (Red Devil Entertainment)
Michael Soldier, A Porn Star Is Born (Raging Stallion Studios)
Carlo Cox, 8 Inches (Marcostudio)
Josh Weston, Big Timber (Falcon Studios)
Best All-Sex Video
Aftershock 1-2 (Falcon Studios)
Bone Island (Sarava Productions)
Downright Dangerous (Raging Stallion Studios)
Fire Island Cruising 5 (Lucas Entertainment)
Gorge (Titan Media)
Reload (Colt Studio)
Sex Pigs (MSR Videos)
Skuff 2 (Hot House Entertainment)
Temptation on the Force 2 (Diamond Films/IMD)
What Men Do (Rascal Video/Channel 1 Releasing)
Best Alternative Video
The Agony of Ecstasy (Sarava Productions)
Beyond Vanilla (Hanky Code/Strand Releasing)
John Holmes Vintage 8MM 2 (L.A. Heat Video)
Totally Billy (Billy Brandt Entertainment)
Where Are They Now? (All Worlds Video)
Best Amateur Video
Cornfed Boyz 2 (Sports & Recreation Video)
Fantasy Cum True: Aaron�s 19th Birthday (CruisingForSex.com)
Flight Deck Dick (Miami Studios)
Mykonos: LKP Casting 3 (Lucas Kazan Productions)
Porn Star in Training (Dragon Media)
Best Art Direction
Carny (Titan Media)
The Haunted House on Sex Hill (Arena Entertainment)
Marc Anthony (Mansize by Private)
R.E.M. (Titan Media)
Taggers (Pacific Sun Entertainment)
There Goes the Neighborhood (All Worlds Video)
Under the Big Top (Sarava Productions)
Best Bisexual Video
Be Bi Me (Blue Pictures/Caballero)
Bi Group Sex Club (Macho Man/Legend)
Bi Uprising (Macho Man/Legend)
Bisexual Houseguest (Over There/Male Media One)
Dirk Yates Private Collection 208 (All Worlds Video)
Best Classic DVD
Best of Colt 7-8 (Colt Studio)
Cousins (Catalina Video)
Northern Exposure (Video 10)
The Other Side of Aspen 2 (Falcon Studios)
Sailor in the Wild (Catalina Video)
Best Director
Blue Blake, Lords of the Ring (Big Blue Productions)
Jett Blakk, Canvas (Red Devil Entertainment)
Bruce Cam, Gorge (Titan Media)
Chip Daniels, Man Hunter (Centaur Films)
Chi Chi LaRue, Detention (Rascal Video/Channel 1 Releasing)
Michael Lucas, Vengeance 2 (Lucas Entertainment)
Brian Mills & Harold Creg, Carny (Titan Media)
Jean-Marc Prouveur, Legionnaires (Oh Man! International)
John Rutherford, Reload (Colt Studio)
Steven Scarborough, Skuff 2 (Hot House Entertainment)
Thor Stephans, Sex Psycho (Arena Entertainment)
Rick Tugger, There Goes the Neighborhood (All Worlds Video)
Chris Ward, A Porn Star Is Born (Raging Stallion Studios)
Wash West, The Hole (Jet Set Productions)
Best Director (Bisexual)
M. Max, Be Bi Me (Blue Pictures/Caballero)
Karen Dior, Bi Uprising (Macho Man/Legend)
Dirk Yates, Dirk Yates Private Collection 208 (All Worlds Video)
Best DVD
Carny (Titan Media)
Descent: Collector�s Edition (Hot House Entertainment)
Detention: Director's Cut (Rascal Video/Channel 1 Releasing)
Gorge (Titan Media)
Just For Fun (Bel Ami Entertainment)
Nexus: Director's Cut (Raging Stallion Studios)
Skuff 2: Directors Cut (Hot House Entertainment)
Best DVD Extras
Carny (Titan Media)
Fire Island Cruising 5 (Lucas Entertainment)
Gorge (Titan Media)
Nasty Nasty (Red Devil Productions)
Skuff 2 (Hot House Entertainment)
Best Editing
Kevin Dupe, Aftershock 1-2 (Falcon Studios)
Ann Igma, The Bombardier (Arena Entertainment)
Andrew Rosen, The Hole (Jet Set Productions)
Thor Stephans, Sex Psycho (Arena Entertainment)
Chris Ward, Gay Dreams (Raging Stallion Studios)
Jim Wigler, Skuff 2 (Hot House Entertainment)
Chris X, Biff, and Phil St. John, Taggers (Pacific Sun Entertainment)
Best Ethnic-Themed Video
Black, White & Hotter (Grey Rose Productions)
Desert Sol (Latin Pacific Productions)
Fantasies of White & Black 2 (Thor Productions)
Freaky Thugz (Liquid Dreamz/Tiger Tyson)
Sins of the Father (All Worlds Video)
Best Foreign Release
8 Inches (Marcostudio)
Crossroads of Desire (Sarava Productions)
Dreamboy (Eurocreme/IMD)
Hotel Cazzo (Sarava Productions)
The Innkeeper (Lucas Kazan Productions)
Legionnaires (Oh Man! International)
Sex Pigs (All Worlds International)
Temptation on the Force 2 (Diamond Films/IMD)
Best Group Scene
Aftershock 2 (Falcon Studios): Matthew Rush, Colton Ford, Blake Harper, Joe Foster, Chad
Hunt, Chris Steele, Bret Wolfe, Peter Raeg, Cody Wolf, Jake Marshall, Jim Slade, Antonio Majors
Big Timber (Falcon Studios): Clay Maverick, Leo Bramm, Justin Dragon, Jack Ryan, Joe Foster,
Brad Benton, Trey Rexx, Josh Weston, Paul Johnson, Ross Stuart
Detention (Rascal Video/Channel 1 Releasing): Johnny Hazzard, Matt Summers, Logan Reed,
Chad Hunt, Matt Majors, Andy Hunter, Mike Johnson
Nexus (Raging Stallion Studios): Tom Vacarro, Carlos Morales, Rik Jammer, Tony Serrano,
Bruce Jennings, Riley Porter, Fyre Fli
Reload (Colt Studio): Ray Dragon, Marcus Iron, Dave Angelo, Rob Romoni, Matt Colmar
Best Leather Video
Aftershock 1-2 (Falcon Studios)
Lord & Master (All Worlds Video)
Man Hunter (Centaur Films)
Skuff 2 (Hot House Entertainment)
Your Masters (Raging Stallion Studios)
Best Music
Gian Franco, There Goes the Neighborhood (All Worlds Video)
Rock Hard, Sex Psycho (Arena Entertainment)
Sharon Kane & EM Diaz, Drenched 1-2 (Falcon Studios)
Matt Locke, Crossroads of Desire (Sarava)
Andrea Ruscelli, The Innkeeper (Lucas Kazan)
JD Slater, Gorge (Titan Media)
JD Slater & Michael Soldier, A Porn Star Is Born (Raging Stallion Studios)
Best Newcomer
Tag Adams
Gil Cortez
Tag Eriksson
Joe Foster
Tyler Gunn
Johnny Hazzard
Ollie Kicks
Jason Ridge
Shane Rollins
Filippo Romano
Best Non-Sex Performance
Rowdy Carson, There Goes the Neighborhood (All Worlds Video)
Critt Davis, Goldenrod (Studio 2000)
Tom Flynn, Daddy Does It Best (All Worlds Video)
Jack Hazzard, Man Hunter (Centaur Films)
Kylie Ireland, Canvas (Red Devil)
Chi Chi LaRue, Homecoming (Studio 2000)
Best Oral Scene
Below the Rim (Rascal Video/Channel 1 Releasing): Filippo Romano, Danny Vox
Drenched 1 (Falcon Studios): Brad Patton, Lane Fuller
Gorge (Titan Media): Dred Scott, Ray Dragon
A Man's Tail (Rascal Video/Channel 1 Releasing): Alex LeMonde, Matt Summers
Temptation on the Force 2 (Diamond Films/IMD): Lucio Maverick, Shane Rage, Adriano Lazzari
Best Overall Marketing Campaign
Drenched 1-2 (Falcon Studios)
The Hole (Jet Set Productions)
A Porn Star Is Born (Raging Stallion Studios)
Rear End Collision (Raging Stallion Studios)
Temptation Series (IMD)
Best Packaging
Carny (Titan Media)
Desert Sol (Latin Pacific Entertainment)
Detention (Rascal Video/Channel 1 Releasing)
Mo� Bubble Butt (Hot House Entertainment)
Sex Pigs (MSR Videos)
There Goes the Neighborhood (All Worlds Video)
Performer of the Year
Trent Atkins
Brad Benton
Joe Foster
Michael Lucas
Jason Ridge
Victor Rios
Filippo Romano
Dred Scott
Josh Weston
Parker Williams
Best Screenplay
Blue Blake, The Bouncer (Big Blue Productions)
Jett Blakk, Canvas (Red Devil Entertainment)
Josh Eliot, His Terrible Twin (Catalina Video)
Jim Gary & Sean Storm, Man Hunter (Centaur Films)
Scott Masters, The Seeker (Studio 2000)
Alex Poole, Strangers of the Night (Lucas Entertainment)
Thor Stephans, Sex Psycho (Arena Entertainment)
Rick Tugger, There Goes the Neighborhood (All Worlds Video)
Chris Ward & Michael Soldier, A Porn Star Is Born (Raging Stallion Studios)
Wash West, The Hole (Jet Set Productions)
Best Sex Comedy
Dear Dick (All Worlds Video)
The Hole (Jet Set Productions)
Homecoming (Studio 2000)
Marc Anthony (Mansize by Private)
There Goes the Neighborhood (All Worlds Video)
Best Sex Scene
The Bombardier (Red Devil Productions): Parker Williams, Braeden Casey
Detention (Rascal Video/Channel 1 Releasing): Tag Adams, Chad Hunt
Drenched 1 (Falcon Studios): Chase Hunter, Lane Fuller
Exhibition (Titan Media): Dred Scott, Ray Stone
Homecoming (Studio 2000): Ace Hanson, Joe Foster
Sex Psycho (Arena Entertainment): Jon Ashe, Paul Johnson
Sex Pigs (MSR Videos): Rod Barry, Trent Atkins
Take One For the Team (Channel 1 Releasing/Rascal Video): Eddie Stone, Jason Ridge
What Men Do (Rascal Video/Channel 1 Releasing): Owen Hawk, Ollie Kicks
Working Men (Dragon Media): Ray Dragon, Aaron Parker
Best Solo Performance
Michael Brandon, Nob Hill All Stars 1 (Raging Stallion Studios)
David Chelsea, Working Men (Dragon Media)
Justin Dragon, Alone With� 4 (Falcon Studios)
Tag Eriksson, The Hole (Jet Set Productions)
Jerek, Big Timber (Falcon Studios)
Best Solo Video
Boywatch 4 (Bel Ami Entertainment)
Dirk Yates Private Collection 214 (All Worlds Video)
Jerkin� It (Mick Hicks XXX/IMD)
Latin Sex Confessions (Latin Pacific Entertainment)
Single Handed (Titan Media)
Best Specialty Release
Bear Cage (Pacific Sun Entertainment)
Below the Rim (Rascal Video/Channel 1 Releasing)
Butt In (Falcon Studios)
Cops.Online (South Beach Video)
Furry Fuckers (Factory Video)
Man vs. Machine (Sports & Recreation Video)
Mo� Bubble Butt (Hot House Entertainment)
Best Specialty Release (18-23)
American Way 3 (Rad Video)
Pickin' Up Tricks (Video 10)
Skaterboyz Diaries (CitiBoyz)
Starting Young (Rascal Video/Channel 1 Releasing)
Something About Dolphins (Dolphin Video)
Voyeur Cam (Reality Czech/Marina Pacific)
Best Supporting Actor
Rafael Alencar, 8 Inches
Brad Benton, There Goes the Neighborhood (All Worlds Video)
Josh Hammer, The Hole (Jet Set Productions)
Paul Johnson, The Haunted House On Sex Hill (Arena Entertainment)
Clay Maverick, Big Timber (Falcon Studios)
Shane Rollins, A Porn Star Is Born (Raging Stallion Studios)
Jim Slade, Lords of the Ring (Big Blue Productions)
Anthony Shaw, A Man�s Tail (Rascal Video/Channel 1 Releasing)
Best Threesome
Gay Dreams (Raging Stallion Studios): Michael Vincenzo, Peter Raeg, Shane Rollins
Gorge (Titan Media): Dred Scott, Chad Williams, Carlos Morales
A Man's Tail (Rascal Video/Channel 1 Releasing): Matt Summers, Filippo Romano,& Nick Piston
Mo� Bubble Butt (Hot House Entertainment): Collin O'Neal, Paul Johnson, Alex Collack
Trucker (Massive Studio): Joe Foster, Filippo Romano, Rob Romoni
Vengeance 2 (Lucas Entertainment): Michael Lucas, Richard Black, Andrew Addams
What Men Do (Rascal Video/Channel 1 Releasing): Gus Mattox, Johnny Hazzard, Gage
Matthews
Best Video
Big Timber (Falcon Studios)
Canvas (Red Devil Productions)
Detention (Rascal Video/Channel 1 Releasing)
The Hole (Jet Set Productions)
Legionnaires (Oh Man! International)
Lords of the Ring (Big Blue Productions)
Man Hunter (Centaur Films)
A Porn Star Is Born (Raging Stallion Studios)
Sex Psycho (Arena Entertainment)
There Goes the Neighborhood (All Worlds Video)
Best Videography
Andre Adair, Fire Island Cruising 5 (Lucas Entertainment)
Bruce Cam, Gorge (Titan Media)
Michael Clift, Skuff 2 (Hot House Entertainment)
Faye DuBois, Andre Adair Desert Sol (Latin Pacific Entertainment)
Ed Maxxx, Sex Pigs (MSR Videos)
Brian Mills, Carny (Titan Media)
Todd Montgomery, Reload (Colt Studio)
Max Phillips, Drenched 1-2 (Falcon Studios)
Leonardo Rossi, The Innkeeper (Lucas Kazan Productions)
Thor Stephans, Sex Psycho (Arena Entertainment)
February 1, 2004
Vidkid Timo
Around 1998 I used to see posts from an amateur pornographer named Timo on a gay video discussion forum. I was working at NakedSword.com at the time and contacted him to start showing his videos on the site (and he's been getting nice checks from them ever since).
Through watching Timo's videos, I learned to appreciate the genre of "amateur" porn videos that are personal, humorous and "real". I even used some of his ideas in my own videos. He also keeps an online diary, called a "blog", and linked to a blog called Sturtle. I didn't know anything about blogs, but I was facinated by reading intimate details about these guys.
I kept reading Sturtle for years not knowing any other blogs existed. Then suddenly in 2003 blogs became all the rage, and I somehow decided to check out another blog linked to Sturtle's blog, which turned out to be none other than the patron saint of gay bloggers, Jonno. Jonno's original personal blog is "on hiatus while it's being redesigned". In the meantime, enjoy his other project Fleshbot and GayFleshbot.
Fast forward to yesterday, and I get an email from Timo:
Subject: How Do I Get Listed on GayPornBlog?
Hey,
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I'm an award-winning porn actor, acclaimed writer, director, producer... all-around cock-sucker... and I've kept an online diary every single day for over three years.
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Please check out "Vidkid Timo's Online Diary"
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The URL is:
http://vidkidtimo.diaryland.com/older.html
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Thanks so much for your consideration,
VidkidTimo
:-)
After explaining to him that he needed to prove the "all-around cock-sucker" part in person, I reminded him who I am. We've exchanged links, I still love his videos and highly recommend them. Here's links to some recent movies:
Pueris Collection 38
Pueris Collection 37
Pueris Collection 36
