Great news! The "Smut Capital of America" documentary that Jack, Ben Leon and I put together about the birth of the porn industry in the late 60s, is going to premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival next month. We'd love to see you guys there!

For screening times and ticket info (as well as extended clips and assorted sexual detritus, check out our Facebook page. We're using that as the film's home base for now.

The film premieres on April 24 as part of Tribeca's "Off the Grid" shorts program. To whet your appetite, a clip from an interview with we did with John Waters, about sex culture in San Francisco in the 70s.

Like us, damn it:

"Smut Capital of America" (Official Facebook Page)
"Smut Capital of America" (via Tribeca Film Festival)

By which we mean, thanks -- we couldn't have done it without you.

-- Mike

Johnny Hazzard has always been a reliable nut for me. But after landing a role on here! tv's The Lair, he pretty much disappeared from sight, or at least from porn. So when Randy Blue called a few days ago to tell me the good news, I was stoked. Johnny's contract with Chi Chi ended after Steven Daigle Exxxposed, and he's raring to get his claws into the Blue boys.

Randy won't reveal who is first scene is with yet, but I've got some ideas. Or maybe just some preferences In the meantime, get a look at the hairier new Hazzard.

Video after the jump ...

Well, they aren't twins exactly, but if you throw a full-length mirror in, it certainly ups the ante ...

Staghomme's always had a bit of an arty Black Spark streak. I think back to Staghomme's "Senses" which also starred happened to star Adrian Toledo. His ass in blue light was one of the finer things of 2009:

A few weeks back, I met up with director Joe Gage, who took me to meet David Hurles, the pioneering gay pornographer and founder of the Old Reliable company. Despite a recent stroke, Hurles and Old Reliable are experiencing a revival of sorts these days -- John Waters dedicated a chapter to him in his recent book, Role Models and last year the Marianne Boesky gallery organized a show dedicated to his 'outsider porn.' His shots of hustlers, addicts and murderers in the 70s and 80s were in many ways the an antidote of the slick images being produced by studios like Falcon and Catalina.

Gage is shooting a documentary on Hurles, and I followed up with him to talk about the project.

In the first big splash as head of Falcon, director Chris Ward is bringing back the Other Side of Aspen franchise. And Aspen, you might remember, never ends without an orgy.

Falcon's original "Other Side of Aspen" is arguably one of the most important films in gay porn history. Not only did it bring together the supermodels of porn at the time -- Casey Donovan, Al Parker, Dick Fisk -- with newcomer Jeff Turk, it's insanely hot. The Parker/Donovan scene in particular wasn't even meant to be on film -- director Colin Myer caught them messing around during a snowstorm and immediately grabbed the camera.

(Clips after the jump...)

Sadly, I wasn't able to make it to the Cybersocket awards this year, and by all accounts it appears I missed a really fun one one. Check out this absolutely hilarious clip of red carpet highlights from Tim and Roma:

There was a time when chest hair on a Sean Cody model was as rare as a condom on a Treasure Island set. But maybe things are changing. Last week, the San Diego-based site debuted two models, Colin and Mike, both as furry as a Raging Stallion exclusive, if still a bit lithe. Could he be trying out a new look on us and, more importantly, does it work?

Last night was the annual Cybersocket Awards in West Hollywood. You can check out more pictures from the night here, but I think the video gives a pretty good idea of how it went.

30 Loads of Facials - The Sequel, Part II (via StaghommeStudios.com)

-- Mike

When it rains, it pours. We asked for a few new cocks to get the new year started right, and Bel Ami's George Duroy sent us a boatload. The studio that gave us Lukas Ridgeston and Tommy Hansen and the Peters twins introduces Peter Fleming ...

Since the end of last year for me was all about vintage, I thought I'd pull out some new meat for the first entry of the New Year. I started with Kristen Bjorn's Casting Couch series and -- as often the case with Kristen Bjorn's stuff -- I had a hard time looking at anything else. Part of the appeal is that he won't settle for anything less than a big dick. So to clear your head for two thousand eleven, I present five of the newest big dicks from one of the industries most influential directors ... after the jump.

In a weekend move that shook up the gay porn industry, video-on-demand powerhouse AEBN (Raging Stallion, NakedSword) announced last night that Raging Stallion's Chris Ward would be taking over the reigns of production (above, directing a scene from NakedSword's Golden Gate). We gave him a call this morning and caught him on his way to his first Falcon meeting.

Why did you want to take on Falcon?
It's an iconic brand -- I've always loved their product. Raging Stallion and Falcon are two biggest production companies in the world . And they were looking for a buyer. Certainly the combined operation is twice the size of any other competitor. We're going to have a lot of press, shelf space. Raging Stallion serves a different niche, so it fits in nicely.

What does the Falcon brand stand for to you?
I think that Falcon is a company composed of multiple labels. When one thinks about Falcon, you think: the clean cut guy in underwear with a big dick. He's the boy next door, but when you dig deeper is he's pretty dirty. It's guys who don't look like they're going to do.

Raging Stallion films tall, dark and handsome -- more hair, older. Falcon is 20 to 30; Raging Stallion is 28 to 40. There are exceptions of course, but Raging Stallion has a much more ethnic look. Falcon is smoother, younger, more collegiate.

Falcon Studios -- the historic home of gay porn classics like Spokes and Other Side of Aspen, and home to stars from Dick Fisk (above) and Al Parker to Matthew Rush and Landon Conrad -- has finally, after years of speculation, been sold.

The legendary gay porn studio founded by Chuck Holmes in 1971 has been bought by VOD-giant AEBN, but will be run by San Francisco-based Raging Stallion Studios. While Falcon will continue to exist as it's own brand and film line, film production will be overseen by director Chris Ward, head of Raging Stallion, Ward confirmed with us this afternoon.

Derek Chambers, a gay-for-pay porn star best known for his work with Jet Set Men, says he tested positive after a gay shoot in September. The actor spoke with the Los Angeles Times earlier this week, immediately igniting a firestorm over safe sex on porn sets.

Part of the storm is that Chambers claims he got HIV on a set where condoms were being used (albeit not for oral sex). Chambers, who also works in straight porn name under the name Cameron Reid, says he doesn't have gay sex off-set, or sex with anyone besides his girlfriend in his regular life -- therefore he must have gotten it on the September shoot. Because the claims have threatened to shut down production on even safe sex sets -- and so far been used to deny a license to an industry testing center -- the Chambers story has come under fire from industry sources who feel he's not telling everything.

For example, perhaps he's not so straight. After the jump, an interview we found from September, where Chambers says that he actually prefers shooting gay porn, that it was "something he's always wanted to get into" and that he loves getting fucked. His scene with Jamesson had him, in his words "on Cloud Nine." His girlfriend has got to be just a little confused.

A judge in Orlando ordered former Corbin Fisher model Jake Lyons to pay the porn site $54,160 for using their photos on his gay escort profile. Lyons promptly made his a gay face and announced that he was filing for bankruptcy. Corbin Fisher had sued Lyons in January for $1,000,000 over copyright violations.

Like most gay porn models. 20-year Lyons doesn't receive residuals from shoots (well, not monetary ones at least), so no amount of our frantic masturbating will help him settle his debts. However, with his $300 an hour escort rate, we figure Lyons can settle his debts with only 191 hours of what we like to think of as gay "community service."

After the jump, Lyons gets really screwed ...

Mike and I have talked about Tony DiMarco's boxing movie BRUTAL a couple times so far: We know it's Jason Adonis' first movie for Raging Stallion's, and Mike snuck these snaps from the set last month. Now a few more pieces to the puzzle of what's shaping up to be quite possibly one of the biggest movies of the year. Box cover below, teaser trailer after the jump.

With less than a week left to raise the funds to finance our 'Smut Capital' documentary, I thought I'd release a longer clip. I hate to sound like NPR during funding drive, but once we finish this, we'll be able to move on to posting even juicier stuff -- interviews with Jim Bentley, Kevin Williams, Tom Chase, Aiden Shaw, Kris Lord and others.

'Smut Capital' (Teaser Clip) from Michael Stabile on Vimeo.

So far, we've kept the film's integrity -- if we want to tell this story, and the larger gay story of Chuck Holmes, we feel we need to do it independently. But this takes money, and we're running dry. I used to hate to beg, but then I got a credit card statement. I know it's a recession, but if you've got a few bucks, we'll make it worth your while.

--Mike

Don't be fooled by their fondness for lollipops (and beer?). One of these twinks was just arrested for murder.

With the exception of a handful of studios, the gay porn industry is flat or severly down from a few years ago. The reasons are many -- a bad economy, the end of the DVD boom, the proliferation of content on torrent and filesharing sites. But the single biggest reason? You can blame Kevin Goyette, currently hawking his free gay wares on DudesNude.

-- Mike

While Al Parker was never able to get his foreskin back, I'm glad to report that some things from the 70s can be fully restored to their original gay glory. Radley Metzger's sexploitation classic Score is being re-released in HD, with formerly deleted man-man sex scenes that were chopped from the original. (The movie, which is based on a Jerry Douglas play that originally starred Sylvester Stallone, isn't the only porno chic revival these days -- Douglas is directing The Deep Throat Sex Scandal at the Bleeker Street Theater in New York.)

Score, a story about a couple swingers on vacation in the European city of Leisure was part of the all-too-brief period of porno chic when everyone felt that hardcore sex and polite cinema were bound to merge. The trailer (after the jump) is closer to Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice than a 8mm peep show loop. Incidentally, Score was a big influence on director Travis Mathews, who's I Want Your Love project has been getting so much press. Maybe the dream of integration hasn't died ...

For the past year or so, Jack and I, along with Ben Leon (previously of Raging Stallion) have been working on a documentary about Falcon Studios founder Chuck Holmes. While the full documentary won't be finished until next year, we did finish a short. The short, "Smut Capital of America," about San Francisco in the 70s, is currently in festival release, but we thought we'd give you a sneak peak. Above, late Falcon director John Summers and others talk about the relationship between gay liberation and gay porn. (Footage of Falcon's Help Wanted loop courtesy Falcon Studios)

The full short is still under-wraps, while we complete the fund-raising, but you can see an extended clip -- about the birth of hardcore porn here (along with your chance to become part of the project). If you feel like tossing us a few bucks to help defray costs, it'd be great, but we'd also just love to know what you think.

Smut Capital of America: Tenderloin and Hardcore (SFSmut.com)

-- Mike

Raging Stallion took home top honors again last night at the 2010 GayVN Awards, with Focus/Refocus (and the Ward-Leon-DiMarco team behind it) taking home Best Feature and Best Director (they tied with Joe Gage for intergenerational sensational, Dad Takes a Fishing Trip). I'll post the rest after I find my underwear, and a Vicodin. Above, Logan McCree winner for Best Actor.

In the meantime, if you're dying to know check out the winners on TheSword's twitter feed.

-- Mike

I've been hiding in the woods for the past few days preparing for the upcoming Folsom weekend, so forgive me for a little lag. Tomorrow night, the stars will converge on the Castro for the GayVN gay porn Awards ( presented by NakedSword.com), and while the streets will be flowing with rum and Diet Coke, it seemed worthwhile to spread Chi Chi's latest message. While I doubt many holes will be shut this weekend, hopefully they'll at least be safe ...

Of course, the safest sex of all is porn, so in the case that you won't be joining us on the red carpet, you can at least vote (with a show of hand, that is)

GayVN Nominated Movies (NakedSword.com)

-- Mike

The GayVNs are coming up in a week, and despite the fact that they're the most nominated studio in 2010, Raging Stallion already seems to be thinking of 2012. Currently they've got two different productions that could vie for the title in 2011 (Tony DiMarco's BRUTAL and Golden Gate, the NakedSword co-production). This week, they announced a huge two-part movie filming in Sonoma right now that will release next year, putting it in play for 2012 awards.

Of all the people I've met working on this Chuck Holmes documentary, director John Summers was one of my favorites. He died yesterday morning in his North Hollywood home from an apparent heart attack.

Summers was one of the people most responsible for the Falcon look -- he brought a style and class to post-Aspen movies that really set the studio apart. He claimed that one of my favorite of Summer's movies, Style (1981) was the first porn where the boys were shaved. He also had Bruce Weber's assistant Kyle Martin style the movie -- clothes were brought in from Wilkes Bashford, hair was done, the feet were bleached and the 80s were ON.

Summers had come to San Francisco in the late 60s and ran a series of boy brothels with John Travis. Later, he, Travis, Matt Sterling and Chuck Holmes would become the founders of the industry as we know it. It was illegal, it was dangerous and to hear Summers tell it, it was a lot of fun. He was always behind the scenes (he never liked to be photographed) and always cooking up trouble (Vanity Fair once referred to only as the mysterious Black Buddha of Porn), but in my experience, always a pleasure to deal with. We shot an interview with him in March, and he'd call every couple of weeks to talk about bad Hollywood movies, money-making schemes, and the importance of high-quality mixed nuts. He loved art and orchids and preppies with big, big dicks. I'll miss him a lot.

-- Mike

Select Filmography
Style (Falcon)
Big and Thick (HIS)
Two Handfuls (Bijou)

After a dramatic exit during which he assured his loyal fans that he was, in fact, straight, and several follow-up interviews during which the buck-hungry buck explored his sexuality, violated a banana, escaped from a sex slavery ring, wrote a book and swore-off gay sex, 25-year old dad Malachi Marx is back at Randy Blue. You can grab your pitchforks if you want, queens, but my hands will be busy elsewhere.

Malachi Fucks Diego (via RandyBlue)

-- Mike

Start picking out your harness now, because the GayVNs are back and filthier than ever! The nominations for the 2010 Awards -- presented by NakedSword, hosted by Alec Mapa, filmed by Showtime and scheduled to take place over the shockingly perverse Folsom Fair Weekend -- were released under cover of darkness last night, and we're gearing up to rub ourselves raw evaluating the competition. In terms of volume, Raging Stallion was the big winner again (Focus/ Refocus and Tales of Arabian Nights), with tight competition from Lucas (Wall Street, Inside Israel) and Chi Chi LaRue's Rascal (Taken: to the Lowest Level) and, perhaps not surprisingly, veteran gay porn director Joe Gage's self-produced Dad Takes A Fishing Trip.

The full list of nominees is available here, but we've come up with a few battles that we're really curious about.

Best Proxy Battle for the Mosque at Ground Zero
Lucas' Inside Israel vs. Raging Stallion's Tales of Arabian Nights

About a thousand years ago, Jack and I wrote a porny gay soap opera called Wet Palms. Six years later, I still can't quite believe they let us go through with it -- giving us three mini seasons, endless hours of howling laughter, and at least one memory that I wish I could have kept blacked out. Evidently we'll be getting residual checks in the mail, because like bedbugs and red states, Wet Palms is suddenly back in fashion. At the time, it was billed as the world's first gay porn soap opera, but that's only if you don't count Dynastud.

Rob Romoni, who starred in the second season as a underwear exec (I think) sent us an email announcing that Jet Set, which originally produced the series with NakedSword, is re-releasing the whole series on a download to own basis. Maybe Jack and I will download it and record our own Wet Palms commentary track telling everyone who couldn't bottom, who was having sex with a writer off-set, who was a hot psychopath, who was not really straight, who was stealing, and who was so much of a waster that it took him 23 takes for on line reading. I guess that's what you get for filming the whole thing at a bathhouse, and make the entire crew live there during filming. Fun times, 2004. I have a production diary around here somewhere ...

Wet Palms Downloads (JetSetMen.com)

-- Mike

For an amazing third year in a row, porn powerhouse Raging Stallion took home the top prize at the Grabby Awards, nabbing Best Porn Movie (for Focus/Refocus), Best Director (Leon/DiMarco/Ward, in a tie with Chi Chi LaRue for C1R's Taken to the Lowest Level), Best Actor (Cole Streets) and Best Group Scene, among others. But despite the studios dominance for a third year (they won in 2009 for The Drifter and 2008 for GRUNTS), the night was packed with plenty for everyone. But the trending topic on Twitter was Best Cock (Cut) winner Tony Buff, who's fetish crew is gay porn's Haus of Gaga (pic, and list of winners after the jump)

Normally, we don't bother with straight porn because a) everybody flips out in the comments and b) it has women in it. But sometimes something is so damned well, gay, that it doesn't seem to matter that there's a vagina in there. Case in point: This Ain't Glee XXX from Hustler Video. Is it an attempt to woo gays to the dark side? If you're that much of a musical queen, I'd suggest Chi Chi's classic "Songs in the Key of Sex" with Randy Mixer and Joey Stefano) from HIS Video instead.

Or maybe we teach just teach these guys how to sing?

-- Mike

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Chi Chi Invents Straight for Pay Porn

While Bel Ami has been busy making the Peters twins fuck like Jarics, William Higgins is doing what I would: making twins Adam and Konrad Richter have sex like Doublemints. The young studs were a little awkward a year or so ago when they made their first film -- it's nice to see they've spent some time at the gym. Watching them is like playing a really hot game of Can You Spot the Difference?, or coming across an issue of highlights where Goofus fucks the shit out of Gallant. There's a picture of the year in here somewhere...

Is there such a thing as a butch theater queen? Sure, Jeff Stryker does a stage show every once and awhile, but director Sean Abley is upping the ante with "L.A. Tool and Die Live: A Pre-condom Comedy" a production of Joe Gage's masterpiece of masculinity. The original, which features gruff daddy Richard Locke along with guys like Will Seager, Paul Baressi, Casey Donovan, is not only a porn classic, it's also rightly a classic of gay cinema. The third installment of Gage's "working man trilogy" (starting with Kansas City Trucking Co. and El Paso Wrecking Corp.) is phenomenal. And thirty years later, the late Richard Locke (above) is still the hottest bear I know (although old COLT Men like Steve Kelso and Bruno still give him a run for the money).

But to get to the stage, the director is looking to raise a little money. And to entice you, he's throwing a little flesh -- in the form of L.A. Tool and Die Live! star John Gale. (He's hot, but I'm still stuck on Locke -- more Locke pics after the jump).

Kris Evan's is one of those god-like, perfect-in-every-way Bel Ami boys who I've never talked about here before because he's so fucking hot I wanted to keep him for myself ... until now. TheSword is reporting that when some bitter queen tipped off local press that Kris is a porn star, the poor thing was so embarrassed that he quit his job as a police officer and fled his remote Hungarian hometown of Nagyatad (population 12,000).

Let's take a second to appreciate what a perfect specimen he is:

Let's hope this angel lands on his feet. After the jump, a must-see clip of Kris shooting such a massive load that he freaks out his scene partner ...

The sweet life of Aden and Jordan Jaric always made me a little queasy. The couple announced this week that they were breaking up after five years of saccharine bliss, but they did us the favor of banging out one more hardcore scene. Does their emotionally raw break-up sex make the flip-flopping twinsy dolls less diabetic in their once endless crush? And will they both be keeping their Falcon contract, or will they, you know, be able to see other people. Most importantly, will this finally help me tell them apart?

"I Want Your Love" is a full-length feature film that's loosely based on the short film series In Their Room (which intimately documents readers of hipster bible Butt Magazine).

The first scene for "I Want Your Love" premiers exclusively on NakedSword this Friday, but until then, here's a teaser of the clip featuring Writer/Director Travis Mathews, explaining what he's trying to do with this ground-breaking, genre-bending project:

Check out some more sneak-peek images over at TheSword.

Forget celebrity nudes Levi Johnson and Ronnie Kroell -- Raging Stallion has topped them today, announcing that the porn studio has offered newly gay pop singer Ricky Martin the chance to star in a porno with Raging Stallion Man of the Year Austin Wilde. (Sure, they also offered Martin a $1,000,000 contract for the deal, but we suspect that the driving force in the pop star's decision is going to be a smaller but no less impressive number -- Austin's 9.)

After cover-boy Levi Johnson decided to keep his pants on, Playgirl announced today that their newest celebrity would be Paul D, Kirk McKambley Make Me a Supermodel's openly gay activist Ronnie Kroell. Hmmm. Having seen what Playgirl svengali Daniel Nardicio is packing, I'm sort of disappointed they didn't use him.

Related:
Playgirl: Pauly D Nude Next?
Reality Porn: 'Tool Academy' Studs Get Naked

-- Mike

In case you forgot why print media was killed by the internet, the Levi Johnston issue of Playgirl will not hit stands later this month. That's means that the time betweenthe actual shoot and the arrival of the hot-off-the-presses issue is roughly 5 times as long as it took for the final pictures to show up on the internet. Daniel Nardicio sent along the picture of the cover, and promised new, never before seen photos of Young Levi (in color, we hope?). Frankly, I'm more interested in the naked shots of New York's hottest bartenders.

When I asked him why they Photoshopped out Levi's pubes like a Ken Doll (see cover), he quickly shot back. "No, HE shaved them." I've never heard a gayer-for-pay thing in my life.

Nardicio also told me that they've got their next star lined up -- they'll be announcing it next week -- and hinted that among the offers that have gone out are Pauly D from Jersey Shore and Kirk McCambley -- the hunky ginger that brought down the government of Northern Ireland.

And in case you haven't seen them ... Levi Johnston Nude (@Playgirl.com)

-- Mike

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Levi Johnston's Nude White Ass in Our Face
Levi Johnston Arrives for Playgirl Shoot

What TMZ is calling a "man-on-man-on-man sex tape", we're calling a gay porn. If you've met Steven Daigle -- or follow him on Twitter -- you wouldn't be surprised that this rodeo champ and reality TV also-ran turned to porn. So why the blurry, caught-in-the-act photo? That's Jeremy Bilding on the right ... but any guesses who's on the left? Also, check out this interview I just did with Jeremy at the AVN Show in Vegas:

Porn-star-turned-paralegal Jay Armstrong is filing a harassment suit against a professor at University of Louisiana who allegedly called the Mustang star's gay past "vulgar," threatened to reveal his porn identity to the Political Science department, intimating that Armstrong might be expelled for work in films like Forced Entry.

In an email to Jay Armstrong (real name Jeremy Williams), Dr. Bryan-Paul Frost, a Crocker endowed professor of Political Science at UL-Lafayette, reportedly told Armstrong that he needed psychiatric help for working in the adult industry and, according to Armstrong, that he would "face consequences" for, I suppose, things having a publicly double-penetrated asshole. Armstrong, who tells us he has a "near-perfect" GPA and is close to graduating panicked. He's taken his story to the local media, but sent us an email in hopes to publicize his plight in the gay community.

Thankfully, we'll always have Sao Paolo ... as well the Carvalho twins, and whatever Brazilan-loving Tommy Lima brings home. Below, a few of my favorite gay things from Brasil, after the jump ...

Yes, he's jerking off with his dad.

When horse-hung high-school student Rhett and helicopter dad Rhett Sr. heard that brothers get paid more for jerking off together, they asked Straight College Men if they could get in on the action. They both claim never to have seen each other hard, but that's probably because Rhett Sr. only sneaks under the covers after lights out.

What's more disturbing, though, is Rhett Sr.'s detailed recollections of his son's bulge in biking shorts. I think we'll hear more from these guys in the future, and it's going to involve fishnets, Natty Light and a mug shot.

Awkward, uncomfortable, clip after the jump ...

For the first half of the decade, Falcon Exclusive Matthew Rush really dominated gay porn, and really defined the Falcon muscle gods look of the '00s: built, smiling and without a trace of hair. And traditionally, he was paired with the same -- Zeb Atlas, Rob Romoni, Erik Rhodes. Frankly, it all began to blur. But you can teach and old dog new tricks, I guess: his scene with furry bottom Orlando Toro for Staghomme made remember why Matthew was so appealing in the first place.

I don't think I've ever seen Matt fuck anything so unpumped and unplucked (granted, I haven't watched the Patheon scene with daddy Tim Kelley), and half of what is so exciting their difference in size is half of what gets me off. The other half, of course, is Orlando coming while Matthew eats his hairy ass. I can only hope it's his resolution for the New Year.

How convenient that CNN would post a clip by Collin O'Neal to show viewers a first-hand account of recent flooding (?) in South Florida. It had nothing to do with the fact that he's in a soaking-wet tank top, riiiiiight?

(BTW, gay porn's most intrepid wayfarer recently re-launched his travelogue site at WorldOfMen.com.)

**Update**: Apparently this clip was actually filmed by none other than steel-jawed hottie Jeremy Hall while the guys were filming for OnTheHunt.com ... and this is Colin's 7th appearance on CNN's iReport.

Watch the clip ... after the jump.

**UPDATE #2** According to Dustin's Twitter: He smoked a lot of weed.

We're sad to note that porn star Dustin Michaels (given name Andrew Grande) died in police custody this weekend while allegedly attempting to swallow a bag of weed.

Police had responded to a domestic disturbance call at his home in Panama City, FL. While attempting to handcuff him, Michaels swallowed the baggie and began choking. The police tasered him before administering the Heimlich Maneuver. A camera crew from Tru TV happened to filming the incident for a COPS-style reality TV show.

The laid-back and handsome, the openly gay and self-described "country bumpkin'" worked with a variety of amateur sites like OnTheHunt (I met him briefly on the Vegas shoot for the Manhunt porn site and he was nice enough to smoke me out) and CircleJerkBoys but is perhaps best known for his performances in Kink.com's NakedKombat and Bound Gods sites.

As of this morning, police have been unable to contact Michaels' family. His best friend (and sometime scene partner), Austin Grant (pictured wtih Michaels) has asked us to help spread the word to his porn family. It's terrible stuff all around.

I got a rather disturbing email the other day from someone at Raging Stallion, and I'm not sure what to make of it. It seems that the latest RSS feature, Focus Refocus includes a rather graphic gay murder scene featuring auto-asphyxiation, strangulation and sex, of sorts, with the dead body. Fairly gruesome stuff. Anyway, I never know how much to trust emails from within a porn company (too much gay politics as it is), but my friend seemed fairly uncomfortable with the turn the movie had taken -- essentially it looks like a gay snuff film -- and ripped an FLV from the server (aka pardon the quality) to show me.

If you're wondering why Americans are having trouble competing in the global gay economy, it may have something to do with Milo and Elijah Peters. Our locally grown porn twins are content to look pretty and shoot sidelong half-gay glances, while these gorgeous gay Czech twins from Bel Ami are willing to go all the way.

There are so many reasons to love Zack Randall: his tight body, his willingness to follow his (ex) boyfriend to the ends the earth, his dexterity with urine streams, his uncut cock.

We're not sure which of these is the reason that Freshmen Magazine made him their "Freshmen of the Year" (beating out gorgeous Trent Davis and American Idol "contestant" Kirk Cummings, among others), but we suspect it had something to do with letting the editors chew on his foreskin.

Some porn stars can't give it away!

Following in the grand tradition of Raymond Marble and Britney Spears, a gay-for-pay star has been identified as a flasher: in New York he was known as the notorious "Subway Fiend." Kenneth Allen Hoyt, appeared as "Kenny" on Jake Cruise's Straight Guys for Gay Eyes site in 2005, but fame proved elusive: the sex offender resorted to flashing teen girls outside Hollywood High School where he was captured on Friday. Luckily, you can see what they saw and get the same value, too: Jake Cruise is offering a free gallery of the fiend.

Kenny joins the ranks of other gay-for-pay stars like "Playgirl Killer" Marcus Allen and elder-bashing Nickolay Petrov in pokey, we have to wonder: does heterosexual sex corrupts the male brain?

-- Mike





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"Kenny" (SG4GE.com)
Straight Guys for Gay Eyes Sex Offender Arrested (TheSword.com)
New York's Subway Fiend Arrested in California (CBS2.com)

Actually, most of the love bites on the set of Mustang Studios new porn, Dirty! came from mosquitos. Above, Race Cooper de-bugs the set where he's spent the day fucking Ty LeBeouf. After the jump, he moves on to the action.

Perez Hilton said it best in regard to Oscar-winning MILK scribe Dustin Lance Black's bareback scandal, "NEVER make a sex tape, unless you're ready for it to leak!"

Especially when you make a sex tape with a guy who runs a cam site out of his dorm room.

I thought the guy in the picture looked familiar ... and after reading the comments on The Sword piece, my suspicions were confirmed: The guy fucking Dustin Lance Black in the tape is student at ASU named Jeff who goes by "Cameron" and has been running a jerk-off cam site FratBoyCam.com (currently offline) for the past five years.

Cam refused to talk to us, but a source close to him tells us that Cam absolutely insists that he was not the one who sold the video to Starzlife, who released the stills on Friday and apparently is trying to sell the full sex tape. Apparently Cam is so traumatized by the whole thing that he took his site off line and fled the country for a week. (If he didn't sell the tape, then what's he so freaked out about?) His twitter account is still up, but hasn't been updated since March. Below are some pics of Cam from when we met him earlier this year at the Phoenix Forum.

It took a jury under five hours of deliberation to find former gay porn star Marcus Allen aka Timothy Boham guilty of first-degree murder of his former John and boss JP Kelso. Per Colorado law, he will be sentenced to life in prison without parole.

And so the other gay porn murder case draws to a close: Although it never caused the bizarre, bloggy subculture of speculation and subterfuge as the Cuadra/Kocis case, it was every bit as sordid.

Denver Post is reporting that despite confessing to the murder to police, his mother, his sister and a former girlfriend (mom, sis, and ex all testified against him), his lawyers argued that the whole thing was cover-up for Kelso's suicide so that his life-insurance policy would have to pay out.

I still think he's given us the sexiest gay porn star mugshot yet.

Gay amateur star Vincent DeSalvo was suspended from a Christian college in Pennsylavia for appearing on gay amateur site Randy Blue a month ago. A fellow student found a video of De Salvo (alternately, Di Salvo) on the porn site and reported him.

Frankly, a threeway with Reese Rideout and Leo Giamani is worth the year suspension in my book...

It seems that Nickolay Petrov (real name: Edmon Vardanyan) needs to get a few things off his well-muscled, clean-shaven chest.

In a four-page, hand-written letter to his manager (paraphrased to me over the phone), the incarcerated felon bemoaned the fact that he hasn't gotten laid in two years. He also claims he's completely innocent and was framed by his ex-best friend, Chris, who, like Nikolay, also occasionally appeared on RandyBlue:

Or maybe he just has a lot of time on his hands ... the former Jet Set Exclusive is serving time in a federal prison after pleading guilty last year for fracturing the skulls of an elderly couple. (Because the sentence is federal, he will have to serve every day of the 20 year sentence.)

There's only one gay man brash enough to remake a Fellini film one year and a film called Farts! the next. Entrapment, Michael latest release, is sensational in a slightly different way: he mines the recent gay bookstore arrests in NY for a little (barely) legal drama. But thank god Lucas knows enough about cinema to keep the verite away from the porn. Andrew and Isaiah don't sound anything like 40-60 year olds caught in the actual sting.

In a related note, NakedSword is presenting this year's awards and they're going to be hosted by Janice Dickinson, Margaret Cho, and Alec Mapa. They're returning to the Castro Theater, so it should be fun regardless.

Take a gander at the bloated robust list over at The Sword and share your thoughts.

Joseph Kerekes pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was immediately sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole. He admitted he knew about and helped murder Cobra Video owner Bryan Kocis in 2007, various news outlets are reporting.

This rather sudden twist comes as somewhat of a shock after what seemed like an endless stream of trial delays and hold ups. Kerekes is avoiding the death penalty by pleading guilty; Harlow Cuadra could still face death if he faces trial and is found guilty of first-degree murder.

(I'll be adding to this post as more details emerge...)

The fraud scandal involving Birmingham, Alabama Mayor Larry Langford has grown to entangle gay porn icon Ryan Idol. Langford was arrested Monday on 101 counts of bribery, money laundering, conspiracy and fraud. As details of the charges against him have started to emerge, one fact has caught our attention: Langford apparently wrote checks to Ryan Idol, the Daily Voice is reporting.

It's too early to jump to any conclusions as to what he was paying him for. Langord may have merely been paying Mr. Idol to give him a personal reading from Terrence McNally's play The Ritz, of which Idol starred in the Broadway revival of last year. However, it's particularly ironic, not only because yet another politician possibly paid for the services of an escort with a check, but also because Langford has done some decisively anti-gay things, like refusing to issue a permit for Birmingham's gay pride parade.

-- Jack

You know how in a cartoon one character will look at another when he's hungry and see a pork chop where his friend once stood? Well, today I saw a pic of Tiger Tyson from Pitbull Productions's Take Em Down 3 and saw John McCain. More specifically, I was forced to remember a porn shoot last May when Tiger Tyson argued that the game was rigged ("ain't no black man getting into office") and that he'd write Obama personally if he got into office.

Yes, I realize that porn stars aren't pundits (though Tyson arguably has more foreign policy experience than Palin) All I'm asking is that will someone please speed up the next week so that I can ignore Pollster and go back to enjoying poles?

-- Mike

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Porn Stars Coming Out for Obama (TheSword.com)

The last time I saw him was about eight months ago. Mike and I brushed past him in the lobby a building downtown. Brandon was always thin, but that day he was practically unrecognizable: a skeleton. He gave us both a big hug and walked away, not saying much, leaving us both stunned in his wake.

Although it leaves many questions unanswered, SF Weekly finally puts the rumors about Michael Brandon to rest and the truth is way more disturbing than I ever imagined: from a partner in one of the leading porn studios to a motel-surfing meth dealer facing serious jail time. Giving how incredibly sweet he was, the story is all the more tragic indeed.

My thoughts are with you, Michael.

The rise and fall of the Monster (SF Weekly)

I was psyched to see that Joe Oppedisano will be shooting all the still photography on Steve Cruz’s upcoming Mustang film Blue Movie, which begins shooting this weekend.

Like Greg Thompson, Joe’s fashion background (he shot Erik Rhodes for Loehmann’s ) comes through in his work. As a result, his photos don’t end up looking like the typical overly lit, super-glossy porno pics.

Check out what I’m talking about in following image gallery of pics from the three Mustang movies he did  (Afterhours, Forced Entry, and Limits) including some of my favorite Andrew Justice and Jake Dakota pics of all time.

Steve Cruz brings together some of the biggest names in porn for a short safe sex PSA as part of his How I Roll campaign. Who's the most persuasive? Check it out after the jump and please share your thoughts.

Steve Cruz is one porn star we never tire of writing about. When I heard that he'll be co-directing his first movie, I decided it was the perfect opportunity to probe him deeper on the subject (I love chatting with him but I always got the feeling he enjoys being probed anyway).

We discussed his directorial influences, if he's still a Raging Stallion Exclusive, and what exactly it is that a porn director does anyway. "Blue Movie" (an homage to 1970s and '80s porn which he's co-directing with Leif Gobo for Mustang) should be released in December but until then check out the interview after the jump ...

Despite the teams of Falcon haters out there, I think they might be on to something with their newest exclusive, Ty Colt. This 20-year-old Midwesterner puts the corn in "corn-fed", and apparently has a perma-hard cock. His debut scene is on FalconStr8men later this month. And those lips! We had dinner with him last night and he's sweet and unassuming -- the opposite of most gay-for-pay stars. And maybe he's not even for pay -- the stud has taken to the industry like a duck to water, and will be shooting both top and bottom scenes this year. 

Roman Heart might want to be extra careful when walking down a flight of stairs. I'm just sayin' ... Another picture after the jump.

Friends of late porn star Cole Ryder have issued an official press release regarding his passing. Although final results of his autopsy are still pending, the coroner’s first impression is that the immediate cause of Cole’s death was congestive heart failure. The picture below of Cole is with his beloved dog Peanut, from a Cole Ryder tribute page.

The full press release is after the jump.

Michael Lucas has more than a few fetishes -- including a recent obsession with farts -- but based on his recent productions, it's real estate that's really on his mind. The housing market may be tanking, but Lucas is counting on a few hot properties to pull him through. A few months ago, he set a porn in Manhattan's famed Flatiron Building, Lucas's Flatiron Fuckers a few months later, he released Pounding the Pavement and, most recently, Flip This! (starring Jason Crew), which could just as well have been an HGTV series.

Maybe he's looking to make an strategic acquisition. Either way, let's screw the realtor talk and the most recent debuts on the market.

One of the first of a crop of more-masculine and hairy studio exclusives, Cole was signed by Rascal in 2006, where he went on to appear in Link: The Evolution, When Bears Attack, and others. He appeared on the cover of the October 2006 issue of Unzipped and the cover of Leather Sessions.

Channel 1 also released the Cole Ryder Cock, a dildo molded off him. After Rascal, he appeared in Cruising Ground for Mustang.

Update: Fleshbot notes that Cole's Myspace profile update from reads: COLE RYDER has left the building.

Update: Chi Chi LaRue sent over the following statement:

Cole Ryder was a beautiful person on the inside and the outside! He had such a great manly appeal and the heart of a gentle giant. Cole was always such a pleasure to work with and I'm deeply saddened by his passing. I can only wish now that he is in peace and he will always have a special place in my heart and the C1R Family.

Picking up from where we left off yesterday, here’s the conclusion of our two-part interview with Collin O’Neal where Collin gives us insight into his casting process as well as some obstacles working with models who don’t necessarily identify as “gay”.

Where and how do you find your models?

I find my models mainly via gay social networking websites like BigMuscle, Gaydar, and GayRomeo. I met Pedro and Daniel from Sao Paulo and Miami, and Said from Lebanon over the net. There are a few times I meet guys on the street or in clubs like Jacko from Lebanon who I met in a café in Aleppo, a city in Northern Syria and then I met my exclusive Francisco Rey, while he was cleaning the pool of our hotel in the Dominican Republic. I am very shy in person, so it is very hard for me to just walk up to guys and pop the porn question.

Various Miami press outlets are reporting that Hollywood Police Department has placed Michael Verdugo on administrative leave pending the outcome of an internal affairs investigation, presumably due to the revelation that he was in gay porn.

Verdugo offered the following comment to WPLG Miami through his attorney: "My client has done nothing wrong. He has served the community of Hollywood with honor and distinction for over 10 years. The only reason someone would criticize my client is that he publicly has a different lifestyle."

Hollywood Police Department refuses to comment on whether being in a sex tape is a violation of police policy until the investigation is over.

RELATED:
Porn Star Design Star Suspended From Police Job While His Internal Affairs Are Probed (The Sword)

Michael Verdugo was kicked off HGTV's "Design Star" last night, but the judges cited his "poor hosting skills" -- not his gay porn past -- for his exodus. There's a clip from the show (filmed well in advance of its premier Sunday, no doubt) on HGTV's website where you can see Mikey V in all his clothed, untied hotness (and catch a few glimpses of his telltale tats).

Related:
HGTV Design Star's Bondage Porn Past
Top 5 Reality TV-Gay Porn Crossovers (The Sword)
Mikey V. Dumped from “Design Star”

Reality TV stars with porn pasts have almost become de rigueur, but this one's shocking even for me. Superhot Michael Verdugo, a contestant on this season's HGTV "Design Star", has a nasty porn past doing bondage videos for Tom "Ropes" McGurk! McGurk is the pre-eminent king of really hardcore bondage videos. Seriously, his videos are NO joke.

According to his profile on HGTV, the 34-year-old police officer from Florida is a fan of Le Corbusier and dreams of one day designing a nightclub. I wonder if the nightclub would be anything like the dungeon he gets tied up in Rope Rituals (as "Jeremy Wess")?

Not completely convinced its him? Matche the tattoo on his right shoulder seen in this profile of Verdugo in the Sun Sentinel (below, left) to the one scene on Jeremy Wess (below, right):

There's even a video of him tied up and getting jerked-off by bareback star Chris McKenzie on XTube! Click continue to see the video and more pictures.

Rod 2.0 broke the tragic news that popular Cocodorm model "Lamar" (real name Eric Lamar Turner), died when his car cossed the median of Indiana freeway and hit a semitrailer head-on in a rainstorm.

Turner and the two other people in the car died instantly, according to police. Turner, who was 23, was returning to Indianapolis from Chicago Gay Pride. According to Rod 2.0, he lived in New York City and Indianapolis and although he no longer performed for Cocodorm, his friends and fellow models are devastated by the loss.

Related
Lamar (Cocodorm)
Former Cocodorm Model "Lamar" Killed (Rod 2.0)
Three killed in I-65 crash (WTHR.com)

Jet Set always referred to their former exclusive Sebastian Young as a "Bad Boy", and now I finally understand why ... he's a fugitive from the law! GayPornTimes is reporting that the 25-year-old (who also did some work for BrokeStraightBoys) has a rap sheet a mile long that includes arrests for robbery and trafficking in hot property and, most recently, "Battery Upon a Person 65/Older". Beating the elderly ... hey, that's just like ex-Jet Set exclusive Nickolay Petrov!

Maybe if he gets caught he'll be end up in the pokey next perennial prison favorite Mark Dalton.

Check out a couple more pics of Sebastian after the jump ...

While the "Gay For Pay" moniker continues to pack 'em in (despite our endless grumbling), could its days finally be numbered? Earlier this month of course, we saw one of the biggest GFP hold outs -- Zeb Atlas -- dip his toe into the gay waters by mouth-fucking Jake Cruise.

Then last week, TheSword broke the news that Zeb Atlas was going to dive right head first and be topping Matthew Rush in an upcoming Falcon movie (ironically enough) about gay marriage.

Yesterday it was announced that another notorious GFP'er -- Mike Roberts -- would be bottoming for Jake Cruise. Mike's topped a few times on-camera, and I'm a huge fan of his but ... egad! I don't wanna see that! Seriously. I'll have nightmares. If you want to see a picture of Jake topping Mike (and kissing him!) click here. You've been warned, OK?

Falcon unveiled the latest foray into an increasingly competitive porn market this week, with Falcon Str8Men, a site dedicated to hot men and the money that gets them to jack off before the camera.
While sites like Randy Blue, Dirty Boy Video and Sean Cody blur the line between straight and gay, Falcon's embraced the straight man in all his testosteroidal glory -- their trailer bears the tag "Get ready for real men," and the site's tagline is "Hot. Sexy. Straight."

So far it's only solos, but I imagine there are more than a few exlcusives waiting with baited breath for a chance to dig in ...

Related:
Falcon Releases Str8 Chicago Dogs with Relish (TheSword.com)
Falcon Str8Men (FalconStudios.com)

-- Mike

Tiger Tyson's a scrappy prize-fighter (while on the set for a recent photo shoot, he told me that he grew up fighting and still thinks that it's the second best way to take out your aggressions). That said, he's not so keen on the current dust-up between Hillary and Obama, either, but that's more because he thinks the whole things is a plot cooked up to distract us. I thought he'd picked up some odd French ideas on his recent trip to Paris, but the longer this goes on, the more I think he's onto something.

Related:
Paris When It Shizzles: Tiger Tyson's Eiffel Tower
Tiger Tyson Has No Faith In Democrats (TheSword.com)

To me one of the saddest things about Jean-Daniel Cadinot's death is not so much his relatively young age (64) but the fact that his work has become somewhat unknown to gay audiences in the US for reasons I'm having a hard time understanding. He was a true legend and at the forefront of the field since he started making gay porn 30 years ago.

A teenage runaway, Cadinot studied photography at the prestigious National School of Photography in France. After working for a mainstream French film company, he started directing porn in 1978 -- first as "Tony Dark" and under his real name after 1984.

Much has been written about the Visconti Triplets (née Timari Triplets) thus far but little has been seen (below the waist). Here's the Cliff's Notes version to get you up to speed: Budapest-born Joey, Jimmy and Jason Visconti were discovered by George Duroy who sequestered them for over a year while he trained them to be Bel Ami boys.

Before Duroy released a single scene with them, they left Bel Ami and signed a two-year exclusive contract with the relatively unknown Elite Male Studios -- an offshoot of delightfully low-rent US Male Studios. Bel Ami announced that they'll be releasing a scene with two of the three brothers within the next few weeks online. Elite has filmed a scene with all three but hasn't given a release date.

Some have speculated that these triplets are really just two twins and one brother. The theory gains some traction when you look at their cocks: notice how the two on the end have cocks that turn downward while one in the middle has a cock that curves upward. Triplets should have, like, three identical cocks, right?

Check out two hardcore image galleries of the Visconti/Timari Triplets after the jump:

Picture it: Brazil, 2007: George W. Bush is getting fucked in the ass by a duck and a gorilla:

Sadly this is no April Fool's, but it is a joke ... a joke lacking a punchline, which is where you come in, cumstained readers. In conjunction with their new release, Carnival, AMG launched a contest where the person who comes up with the best dirty joke involving George W., a duck and a gorilla wins a ton of porn. To read more or to enter the contest, go here.

Watch the hardcore trailer:

FULL DISCLOSURE: As one of the judges of this contest, I will place extra weight on any entry that incorporates Sophia Petrillo.

-- Jack

April issue of artsy Brit fashion mag i-D features an interview with Francois Sagat where he talks about working for gay-tastic designer Karl Lagerfeld, photographer Mario Testino and French Vogue editor Carine Roitfeld (who knew?). They also feature an extensive spread of Francois dressed in weird clothes and doing things I have a hard time explaining:

The March issue of i-D featured Michael Lucas in a feature about Donatella Versace (Get OUT!). They don't really explain why he's pictured, but I'm sure they're friends or something:

Somewhat less glamorous -- but equally impressive, nonetheless -- Erik Rhodes is featured in two full-page ads for Loehmann's running in LA bar rag Frontiers. Last year he appeared on the cover of one of their catalogs and in the in-store displays (click continue to see both of his ads):

Jack's post yesterday about Falcon's not-quite-so-new policy of allowing oral cum shots ended causing more consternation than good. We spent the morning talking to directors who thought the decision meant that Falcon was going bareback, gay stars who thought they were going to have to choose between their version of safe sex and Falcon's, and gay studio heads who either shared the Falcon policy or or contested it.

The trouble is, none of this is quite new. Lucas Entertainment and Gay studios like Raging Stallion have been allowing oral cum shots for awhile and Falcon International director (and former Bel Ami model) Tim Hamilton has been using them since European Holiday last year. As far back as Chris Steele's Riding Hard, models have been eating their own cum.

Partly because of the marketing, which highlighted the cum shots, and partly because Falcon had used former exclusive Josh Weston -- now a bareback star -- the issues seemed to be getting conflated.

I've never had much of an issue with gay-for-pay stars. Some are in it for the money, some are just sexually confused and some are just plain hot. So I know that Johnny Castle, for instance, is never going to fall in love with me, but I could easily get a nut thinking that he might let me lick his balls for a few hours (assuming I pay the Forest Meet the Stars fee, of course). He's many things to many people, including a hunky piece of meat to me, but I'm not sure what he's doing pushing Pride.

This is a timeline based only on the gay porn mugshots I've collected over the last four years editing this site (less one I had to remove at the behest of a cranky manager). From beating an elderly couple to stealing credit cards from a dead man, these anything-but-sexy crimes read more like a blotter of the world's creepiest crimes.

As far as gay porn arrests go, this is merely the tip of the iceberg -- Mattias Von Fistenberg and Collin O'Neal were both arrested while filming movies, for example, but I've never been able to track down either mugshot so they're spared from this.

Andrew Justice: Oct 2008,
After a successful debut year on the gay scene, doing both top and bottom scenes for many major studios, this intriguing bisexual served a year in prison for stalking and harassing an ex-girlfriend. When he was released from prison, in 2009, he did just a handful of scenes.

Keyon (above) and Teyon (below): Feb 2008
Twins Keyontyli and Teleon Goffney were arrested in Philadelphia for trying to steal the cash out of a beauty salon's ATM and were promptly connected with at least 35 other robberies. It took porn fans all of six days to figure out they were the gay porn twins Keyon and Teyon who did a handful of scenes and cam shows, most notably a threeway on Blackmen.net with Marc Williams, where Marc bottomed for the first time on camera.

Nickolay Petrov: Jan 2008
Nickolay Petrov (aka Edmon Vardanyan) was arrested in Florida and charged beating and stalking a couple in their 60s. Petrov was actually hired to kill them but couldn't quite pull it off. The (former?) Jet Set Exclusive faces up to 20 years in prison.

When we heard that Big Brother's Crazy James was doing full on gay porno, we had to get to the bottom of it. Looks like he beat us to the punch:

and with Hunter James, to boot. Looks like the Dirty Tricks are just about to start ...

Crazy James Hardcore Debut (Dirty Boy Video)

I can't say I've ever actually read an article in S.F. bar-rag Gloss Magazine. Not that I don't thoroughly enjoy flipping through the colorful pages of mostly sex club and circuit party ads every week. In fact, whenever I see a new issue, I announce, "My favorite magazine!" and snatch one up. I'm drawn to it for the same inexplicable reason why I'll watch the same infomercial over and over.

Imagine my surprise when I not only read -- but was strangely touched by -- this week's cover story on two of my favorite people in the gay porn industry, Hot House's Steven Scarborough and Brent Smith. In the frank piece, they prove that two people can have a very normal, very loving relationship despite being surrounded by the craziness of this industry. They talk about their sobriety, dealing with jealousy, and making their bed together every morning.

Swoon!

The interview was written by Sister Roma and Lord Martine but is only available online as this unwieldy musical PDF (click here, but you've been warned). Otherwise, pick one up if you're in SF this weekend for the GAYVN Awards.

-- Jack

While more than a few studios, including Titan Media and Factory Videos, are shooting on high-definition film, the conventional wisdom that porn is not something you necessarily want to see in that much detail has been one of the reasons that no one has been releasing in HD. The other, of course, is the format wars that have plagued Hollywood, still recovering from it's 80s Betamax hangover. The result has been a good number of films shot in HD, but almost none have actually released titles in it (which is sort of like watching HD programming on a non-HD television).

This week Raging Stallion became the one of the first to take sides and will issue its GayVN-nominated, forty-scene GRUNTS trilogy just as soon as it can figure out pricing. Given that the original six-disc set was one of the industry's highest-priced (and highly coveted) releases, it won't be cheap. Meanwhile, European studio High Octane announced that it would release its latest in HD-DVD, as will Boykakke films. Titan Media's Bruce Cam will be signing his final film and first high-definition film, Breakers, this week in the Castro.

As for those unforgiving high-definition revelations, when you've got a big screen to fill and nothing but Katie Couric's raisin face to look at, I guess you deal with the occasional ingrown hair.

-- Mike

Q:
Which multiple-studio exclusive turned studio head with a Blade Runner-inspired name (left) is rubbing his fuzzy butt cheeks with a rising-star blond bad-ass (right)?

Q.
Which white-hot twink with a penchant for watersports is the owner of the chiseled abs and delightfully unkempt pubis seen in the photo above being pantsed by the randy, bejeweled hand of Sister Roma?

There are few things that I enjoy running into more than Colby Taylor's delicious, nutritious, ambitious penis or its handsome, easy-going owner. Aside from his occasional locker-room indiscretions, he's got little of the pretention or vanity that marks his porn star peers -- just an charming guy with a sly smile and a gigantic penis. So I was happy to see that the 11-year industry veteran and GayVN winner would be picking up the mantle left by Jake Deckard and becoming NakedSword's 2008 NakedSwordsman.

He's in Vegas now at the Adult Entertainment Expo, flirting with fans on behalf of the NakedSword team (Jake is also there, as are Diesel Washington, Damien Crosse, Dean Flynn, and Aiden and Jordan Jaric). While Colby's easy enough to see around San Francisco, I can't resist the opportunity to congratulate him in person -- I'll let you know how he stacks up next to the Stratosphere.

Colby Taylor Videography (NakedSword.com)

-- Mike

Once upon a time Danny Vox was a promising young starlet whose striking, catalog-model good looks paired with his penchant for being a double-penetrable pass-around party bottom made him quite the irresistible porno paradox.

"Jewelry making" (or maybe it was the LTR with an a-list Hollywood director) put him in early retirement but (as I predicted when I interviewed him two years ago), his retirement has been dotted with comebacks a' plenty, including one in Ridgeline's upcoming Beyond Malibu.

Well it looks like his dirty-boy interior finally caught up with his squeaky-clean exterior ...

We're not awards whores, we swear -- and honestly, in the upcoming Cybersocket Awards, we want you to vote your conscience, not cause we begged you. But the truth is, we're up for Best Gay Blog again and we need your help. There are lots of sites our favorite sites up there, too, of course -- Dirty Boy Video, Sean Cody, Randy Blue, NakedSword.com, the Tim and Roma Show (none, thankfully, competing in our category). I know we're not exactly NPR but, uh, if you continue to expect the high-quality "journalism" and dirty pics from moistened holes for yet another sleazy year, feed our egos. Otherwise we'll keep all the good stuff for ourselves.

Vote for us, damnit! (Cybersocket.com)

-- Mike

Given that celebrities have become so infantilized that they've stopped saying vagina in favor of pussyfooted vowel combos, you'd think that gay porn itself might be enough to sufficiently shock the media elite. But no, the media won't cover us unless we're jumping out of cakes at Gay Porn Days or dining on dildos in a Da Vinci tableau. Case in point: Dark Alley's Passio, a movie that looks dark, hot and fucked, but also genetically engineered to shock Bill O'Reilly into featuring it in the No Fisting Zone. Nevermind that Dark Alley's Fisting Underground featured more jaw-dropping visuals, the Dark Alley press push for Passio is positively bursting with fresh and controversial ideas for easy media digestion -- including hand-cut stills from Madonna's "Like A Prayer" video.

Black Jesus versus gay rapist Jesus? No contest on the offensivenss, but the chance that Passio will be covered on Entertainment Tonight: not likely. (Of course, I still can't cum watching Madge shill for Pepsi.) Of course, it got us to write about it ... thrice.

Related:
Official Passio Website
Religious Right Incensed by Gay Porn Last Supper
Dark Alley's Martyr Complex

-- Mike

God, sometimes the Religious Right are so predictable. I guessed yesterday's gay porn Folsom Street Poster brouhaha would end up on O'Reilly Factor, but It was on Hannity & Colmes instead. The highlight was when they had this a male spokesman from Concerned Women (snicker!) For America on saying that Folsom Street Fair is "nothing short of a mini Sodom and Gomorrah dressed up as a gay pride event." Ha. Kudos to Sister Roma for being on Fox News twice in one year. She is officially my hero.

-- Jack

Folsom Events set them up -- and they took the bait! In what's sure to end up as talking point on tonight's O'Reilly Factor, Concerned Women for America has called on CA elected officials to publicly condemn the poster for the 2007 Folsom Street Fair -- a parody of the Last Supper with apostle porn stars (Titan Exclusives Tober Brant & Dean Flynn), drag nuns (Sister Roma, natch), and -- gasp! -- a black Jesus (source Towleroad).

Despite the fact that Folsom Street Fair is a pan-sexual event, and there are women in the poster, they are -- of course -- blaming the 'Gays'. See their very hysterical, Francine Fishpaw-style press release here.)

See the full-sized poster here. Their timing could not be more perfect with Folsom coming up this weekend. Another victory for San Francisco Values ... just wait until they see Jesus climb off the cross and rape a priest in Dark Alley's Passio!

-- Jack

While Danny Roddick's death shows that studios can't monitor their stars off-screen behavior, we can at least make sure they do a better job of keeping them safe on-screen. As former bareback twink porn star Aaron Tyler recently claimed, the barebacking studios weren't as concerned. Like former barebacking sensation Brent Corrigan, Tyler is professing a condom conversion after a fall out with his former employers. Mark Adam's Vidioview alerted me to Aaron's MySpace blog, where the former Helix Film star says he wasn't aware of the dangers when he started shooting.

"... i was young and very stupid. I feel like it was a BIG mistake, but at the time i was broke and needed money and i was offered an extra hundred dollars for it. If i could go back and change this I would. It is totally UNSAFE and needs to be stopped..."

We are shocked and utterly devastated to report that Danny Roddick died Thursday, according to a press release issued by COLT, the studio he was an exclusive with. The cause of death has not been released.

An extremely talented star who was on the verge of becoming a superstar, Danny debuted in Buckshot's HARD Studies in 2005, and has since appeared in Boot Black Blues, Big Rig, and Hostile. He's stars in Jerry Douglas' Brotherhood, and AMG Brasil's upcoming Amazônia: Capture & Release (where he was revealed to be the "gay porn star Mystery Man").

A Northern California native, Danny was also a hair stylist and romantically linked to fellow Buckshot Man Alex Chandler until earlier this year. No word on when or if a memorial service in his honor will be held. We will be posting information as it becomes available.

Our sincere condolences go out to his family and loved ones.

Everyone seems to be focusing on the devastating fire that ripped through legendary "flamming" gay bar Micky's on Tuesday. Many are wondering where/if Cocktails With The Stars will resume (official word: "it is currently on hold"). But that's not even the only gay porn real estate news this week ...

1028 Stratem Court, the Virginia Beach home where Harlow Cuadra and Joseph Kerekes ran their (apparently) lucrative prostitution ring and (allegedly) plotted to kill Cobra Video owner Bryan Kocis, has been placed on the market -- and is priced to move at $679,000, although early new reports estimated the home's value at $750k (aren't gay supposed bring up real estate prices?)

According to the online listing, the 4000 square foot, five bedroom house was built in 2005 and features such amenities as cathedral ceilings and a two car garage. For that price you'd hope they threw in the massage table, multiple-head shower and hot tub, a few of the pimped out features clients would get use of, according to a signed affidavit from a former John.

The visits from homeland security aside, the Raging Stallion GRUNTS shoot a few weeks ago proved that "don't ask, don't tell" hasn't stopped thousands of guys from getting in on some action mano-a-mano. There were close to a dozen men on set with some relation to the military -- from Brodie Sinclair (also known as Derek Brodie), Victor Steele and new RS exclusive Ricky Sinz, all of whom recently returned from Iraq and Afghanistan, to guys like Mason Garrett and Jake Deckard who practically grew up on base.

The rest of the GRUNTS recruits quickly fell in line -- when gay porn stars like Jake Deckard and Ricky Sinz start unleashing rage-filled drill sergeant tirades, it's hard to pretend you're anywhere other than Fort Bragg or Camp Pendelton. Luckily, the rogue warrior atmospherics carried into the sex, and guys who months ago were fighting for their lives on the ground were now fighting to outdo each other on screen with donkey punches, beer bottle pokes and spit-filled beat-downs.

The first GRUNTS movie releases this December, and with over 30 scenes shot on base last month, it looks like this troop surge is going to last for awhile -- no pull-out in sight.

Pics after the jump...

Michael Biserta's handsome face and torso rung a bell with eagle-eyed PornForPatric and Fleshbot editors when he graced the cover of the FDNY Firefighters 2008 Calendar of Heroes.

Could he be the same guy from an X-tube video and Gay Porn-Lite "Guys Gone Wild" that made the rounds last year with an impossibly large cock and -- gasp -- how big does that fucking thing get when it's hard? See the clip and judge for yourself after the jump ...

Pornographers are no stranger to the whims of law enforcement, but two recent incidents on porn sets might give flesh peddlers reason to pause before taking the camera on location. Saturday, Collin O'Neal called from the Dominican Republic where he and cameraperson extraordinaire Mr. Pam were shooting some local color for his World of Men series. A nosy neighbor spied a solo shoot in the backyard of the rental house and informed the authorities who promptly crashed the party. Mr. Pam was taken to the station and her camera and laptop confiscated.

Second, perhaps even more frightening, was a late-night visit from local military brass on the set of Raging Stallion-NakedSword co-production of GRUNTS. The military shoot, at a 100,000 acre ranch on a coastal valley in central California, wasn't nearly secluded enough from prying eyes. It's unclear whether nearby neighbors spotted actual military jeeps going on and off the property, or if the large-M*A*S*H style army base that director Chris Ward built was visible from the air (several Army bases are nearby and the shoots on the set were frequently interrupted by flyovers). The visitors didn't say they were from Homeland Security, but who knows? The gun shots on the property, the twenty-five men marches and the high-voltage electrical consumption would certainly have alerted a casual observer. Maybe it is possible to be too realistic.

In both cases, the objects of the investigation were shaken, but not deterred. Mr. Pam and company were able to escape with some fast talking and some sleight of hand (watch the porn on my camera disappear!) and Raging Stallion director Chris Ward merely pointed out that he was, in fact, shooting porn, not practicing for Ruby Ridge.

-- Mike

Gay porn stars are the frequent "Special Guest Stars" in the whimsical dreams of faggy fashion designers. As far back as the early 80s, as documented in his Diaries, Andy Warhol excitedly recounts a weekend at Calvin Klein's house in Fire Island where Calvin and Halston were having their way with two blond porn stars he could only recall as being named "Lance and Leo".

More recently, we saw Jeff Stryker walk runway for Thierry Mugler and Johnny Hazzard walk for Boy George's nascent line B Rude. Luca Di Corso was featured in a spread in GQ and print ads promoting Tom Ford eyeware (see left) and of course Erik Rhodes and Ben Andrews showed up all over a recent Loehmann's catalog.

It's therefore no surprise to see TitanMan Francois Sagat tied up in the designer milieu (Sagat being designer of sorts, provided the illustrations for T-shirts for his fashion school buddy Oliver Bobin's line Fade). But his recent work for Bernard Willhelm (a handsome lad himself) is a coup even for a top model, as he's the sole person featured in the designer's Spring/Summer lookbook and even appears in a surrealistically bizarre (even for fashion standards) 12-month calendar which features Sagat fucking what appears to be a Yugo (and getting fucked by what appears to be a bouquet of flowers).

You can see all the lookbook and calendar images over at Francois' Blog but I've picked out the more controversial and challenging ones (i.e., the porniest of the bunch) after the jump ...

It's one thing that "I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry" was the top-grossing movie in the US this past weekend -- you could argue that the movie is using humor to take bring very real gay issues to the forefront. But when Conan O'Brien "accidentally" plays a CyberBears clip (without attribution or permission) instead of a clip from "Chuck & Larry", it makes me wonder if its doing any good whatsoever. I know, I know -- it's all "just a joke", right? Well, real funny stuff:

See the clip from Conan here. Also see out this "humorous" blog entry written by unskinny Conan staff writer Aaron Bleyaert who chose the clip (and all the "ew gross!" comments).

(For the record, the clip used was from Feed The Bears.)

Related

More porn on Fox News
Bill O'Reilly Lashes Out At "Gay Porn Pride"
Conan O'Brien Airs Gay Porn Clip (AVN.com)
When Bears Attack (Fleshbot.com)
Watch CyberBears movies on NakedSword

Deaths, accidental or otherwise, are quite sad, and Kent North's apparent suicide last Wednesday is no exception. A week of sensationalist detective work online followed, with exigetical readings of the official Hot House press release and various blogs detailing suspected methods and porn-stars-are-sure-unhappy handwringing from the peanut gallery. Whether it was an accidental or purposeful overdose matters little.

Kent North, from the little I knew him, was gracious and charming. Whatever his other issues, porn seemed to be one of the highspots in his life. Fans who want to send their condolences to his partner, Lloyd, may do so through Hot House at the address below:

Hot House Entertainment
1433 17th Street
San Francisco, CA 94107

-- Mike

Oh, brother ... another week, another gay porn mug shot.

Dandy David Wiles, 29, a Grapevine, Texas hospital tech, was arrested for going on a shopping spree with credit cards he stole from a man who died in the emergency room. Because the victim was police officer (and because he was caught on tape buying a big-screen TV at Target), quite a few people have picked up the story. Once they find out that Dandy Wiles was also the gay porn star Tommy Saxx, I imagine they will probably have a field day.

Tommy Saxx was never a major player in gay porn, but his 1998 debut in Skateboard Sliders always stood out to me. Although his performances were solid and he had a great dick, he didn't quite fit into any of the standard porn star categories (not quite a twink, not quite a hunk), and perhaps because of this, his career never went too far. He tried his hand with Fetish (in Mustang's Shock 2, Channel 1's Slap Happy) but everything went downhill quick for him once he went bareback in 2001 and little else was heard from him since.

Hardcore pics after the jump ...

HOTTEST. MUG SHOT. EVER.

Way hotter than his last one, too ...

Call them pre-comebacks.

Fresh from his win as Grabby's Performer of the Year, Trevor Knight, the 11-inched jackhammer top from Big Dick Club and a number of other highly erotic artistic masterpieces, has evidently decided to retire, according to snoops at Woody's Reviews. He made the announcement, of course, by posting his decision on his MySpace blog.

In a similar note, we're sad to report Pete Ross' decision to leave the flesh trade. I'd normally tell you to start the clock running (Mason Wyler was reputedly retired a few months back, yet is shooting again, as I think is Mike Roberts), but Petey's taken down his Porn Rebel websites and there's no trace of him on MySpace. If it weren't for all those home video memories, it'd be like porn's red-headed stepchild never existed.

We hardly knew ye, boys! See you later this year at some industry event with free booze.

-- Mike

Say what you will about Fox News. They may get dogged by the liberal media for being a conservative mouthpiece, but facts are facts: no other news organization is as gay porn friendly. In February, Bill O'Lielly did gave COLT Studio some well-deserved press, then in March they heralded porn stud Rod Majors as an American Hero.

Then this past week in a particularly flaccid segment on the already insipid "Red Eye", reporter Bill Schulz does a little bump-and-grind with donkey-dicked gay porn star Spike, (star of such favorites as Spiked, and personal fave Echoes) at 0:54 into the clip:

How can anyone argue that this isn't Fair and Balanced? (link via Towleroad)

More movies starring Spike

-- Jack

Still more shocking evidence is being released this morning from the bombshell 54-page affidavit indicting Harlow Cuadra and Joe Kerekes in the murder of Bryan Kocis.

Citizen's Voice is reporting that investigators used electronic surveillance to record a meeting at a nude beach in San Diego between Cuadra, Kerekes, Brent Corrigan and Grant Roy, where they apparently bragged about killing Kocis. Surveillance transcripts reveal:

-- Cuadra and Kerekes allegedly spoke about the inside of the home and what happened in the moments leading up to the slaying.

-- On the murder of Kocis, Cuadra allegedly said, “It was quick; he never saw it coming ... It almost seems like I got revenge and I know that sounds fucked up.”

-- When Grant Roy asked if Kocis felt any pain, Cuadra allegedly replied, “Don’t worry, he went quick.”

Meanwhile, even more charges against the couple pile up: They have since been charged with conspiracy to violate Virginia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, conspiracy to launder money and conspiracy to receive money from the earnings of male and female prostitution.

Harlow actually posted photos from this nude beach meeting on his blog -- maybe if you look closely enough, you can see feds listening in.

As the details surrounding the investigation of Bryan Kocis' murder emerge, things aren't looking too good for Harlow Cuadra and his Boy Batter partner Joseph Kerekes.

Virginian-Pilot has released details from a 54-page affidavit that spells out the evidence leading up to their arrest as well as the charges against them (in addition to criminal homicide, Cuadra and Kerekes may be facing robbery, burglary, arson, theft, tampering with evidence and conspiracy.)

More details and completely gratuitous photos of "Stud Wonder" Harlow Cuadra after the jump ...

It's obviously naive to think if you do porn there won't be certain consequences; if you're, say, an elementary school teacher or (in the case of Roman Ragazzi, in politics), you are going to lose your job if and when people find out you fuck men on camera for money.

What I found bizarre about Roman's story appearing in the NY Post is that it seemed as if the paper was somehow behind Roman's resignation form the Israeli consulate. After a swarm of text messages, phone calls and emails from Collin O'Neal this past weekend (Collin is traveling through China at the moment) it turns out that there may be more than meets the eye and the scandal may be the work of a stalker/con-man with some majorly cruel intentions.

Roman Ragazzi, we hardly knew you! We posted photos of him last month and though he seemed, well, too good to be true ... and everyone seemed to agree. People have been going ga-ga over the stud and this morning the New York Post is reporting that the Raging Stallion Exclusive is also an Israeli consulate official working at the United Nations.

They may have also been responsible for him losing his job! It seems an intrepid reporter at the Post caught wind of Roman's gay porn alter ego and contacted him directly via his Big Muscle profile. When they confirmed that he was actually Dror Barak and worked for the administrative offices of the Israeli consulate, they contacted the consulate and Roman quickly tendered his resignation. Can you say witch hunt? We just hope he doesn't resign from porn.

Gratuitous photo gallery of Roman Ragazzi after the jump!

I came across a site called PrisonStuds.com in the paper the other day. It seems an ex-con identified only as Steven has captured a new amateur fetish -- guys who've been on the receiving end of the justice system's long hard one. It's part of a project to get ex-cons a decent income following their release: a noble cause, no doubt. According to "Steve," the straight-but-not-narrow brain behind the brawn:

"These guys have a lot on the line and are hesitant to do stuff on video. You know, most ex-cons go back -- it's a matter of time. And homosexuality isn't accepted in prison. A lot of guys do it, especially with long prison sentences, but for everyone to know -- you have to be a real badass. So a lot of these guys just don't want people to know." ("Pros and Cons," San Francisco Chronicle, 4/30/07)

Hmmm. Sort of. I checked it out the site and was suprised to see that, next to the typically rugged felons, a few old industry favorites are volunteering to drop the soap, like Shane Rollins and Troy Punk. While I can't vouch for "Viking" Troy Punk's claimed California and Canadian prison stints, I can in good conscience confirm that for Shane Rollin has been behind bars -- in Hot House's Justice and Mustang's Lockdown.

On a side note, you can also buy used clothes on the site including, curiously enough, wifebeaters. I'm surprised Mark Dalton isn't on the site...

-- Mike

[Note: After posting this, I noticed Fleshbot had called out Shane as well. Kudos, kids. Bonus points to the first people who can tell me what Troy and Shane actually were in jail for - MS]

The slang definition of a hustler is a man who has sex for money. Gay men -- as reflected by classics like "Hustler White" and "My Own Private Idaho" -- romanticize the lone streetwalker with a heart of gold, but the word has far more insidious implications in the wider lexicon. American Heritage defines "hustler" as "a person who employs fraudulent or unscrupulous methods to obtain money".

It's certainly amusing to see gay porn star turned right-wing mouth piece Matt Sanchez/Rod Majors squirm in this hilarious interview with former "Cheaters" host Jack E. Jett, where not only does he say he doesn't remember sucking cock on film, (these should refresh your memory, hon!) but he goes so far as to espouse this hateful Ann Coutler-esque sound bite:

"Gay men are like fundamentalist Muslims. If you leave their religion they have to send out a fatwa and demand your execution."

But as it turns out, American Heritage's definition may be a more accurate way of describing Sanchez. His gay porn past and subsequent amnesia may be be the least of his problems, as he may soon be facing criminal charges for stealing from Army veterans, of all people ...

First Janice Dickenson Modeling Agency ... then O'Reilly Factor, then a retail department store catalog ... just when I thought I'd seen it all ...

Click "Continue Reading" to see the downright bizarre source of the following gay porn-centric blurb, image, and caption:

[Will] Clark’s guest this night was the cartoonishly buff adult-film actor Diesel Washington, who appeared in various stages of undress throughout the evening, removing a layer of his baggy combat fatigues each time a patron achieved bingo. Mr. Clark, whose own outfit was accented by subtle nods to gay leather subculture in the form of a wallet chain and motorcycle boots, provided a running commentary to an audience slumped over their beers and bingo cards.

GAMESMANSHIP Will Clark, right, the M.C. of “porno bingo,” with Matt Cole at the Ninth Avenue Bistro.

I was less surprised to see Erik Rhodes on the cover of the Loehmann's catalog than by the fact that he's wearing the same thing he wore in Driver.

Click "continue reading" if you don't believe me ...

A few poor, confused readers commented on last week's Rod Majors/Matt Sanchez story, suggesting it was hypocritical of us -- and the gay community at large -- to take him to task just for doing porn and being a Republican. One reader pointed out that he was merely standing up against being harassed which is something we gay people should understand.

Luckily, before I could respond, Matt Sanchez opened his mouth on Alan Colmes' radio show yesterday and instead of stuffing it with a fat cock in it for once, he exposed what a jackass he is (and a poor liar, to boot).

Before:

11-inch uncut stud Rod Majors, who appeared in mid-nineties classics like Idol Country, Built Tough, and Kristen Bjorn's Call of The Wild (as Pierre LaBranche)

Momentum on the non-story about San Francisco's "Gay Porn Day" is growing, with the Associated Press running a story about it today, complete with quote from an outraged minister.

Here's the high-larious original clip I pulled these screencaps from, (complete with images he may have gently "borrowed" from this post) where Bill calls San Francisco a "modern day Sodom and Gomorrah" (a fact which we San Franciscans take tremendous pride in.)

I hope this all translates into lots and lots of DVD sales for COLT.

-- Jack

In his latest bout of neocon culture war-mongering against "San Francisco Values", on today's O'Reilly Factor god warrior Bill O'Reily took San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom to task for issuing an official proclamation on behalf of the city for the COLT 40th Anniversary Party ...

I chuckled when he showed a picture of Roma and Buckshot Man Danny Roddick ... But then I got peeved ...

Why did he have to use the SAME PICTURE WE DID OF CARLO MASI jumping out of a cake?

Actually, it's good to know you're reading GayPornBlog, Bill.

More pictures from the party at COLT Studio Blog.

-- Jack

Gay porn producers don't normally view the federal government as allies. In the past year, nearly a dozen adult companies have been subjected to raids by the FBI looking for record-keeping violations. So on Saturday morning when I got an text message from Owen Hawk with a pic featuring US Marshalls outside a run-down XXX store, I suspected the worst. Who would have guessed that they were there as a team?

Hawk and partner Matthias von Fistenberg from Dark Alley Media, along with the boys at Pitbull Productions, raided a series of adult video stores in Times Square (no doubt sandwiched between ESPN Zone and the Disney Store). The stores were selling counterfeit DVDs from studios including Hot House, Falcon, Raging Stallion, Titan and Jet Set.

With all the hullabaloo about file-sharing -- as well as the Orwellian sirens-and-flashing-lights "do not share this DVD" segments at the beginning of certain movies -- it's easy to forget that one of the biggest incursions into gay porn producers sales somes from a guy in a back room with a DVD duplicator. It's a good thing Dark Alley got them this month -- you have to wonder if the US Marshalls are going to be as sympathetic when Gaytanamo comes out.

(Note: Michael Lucas has informed me that his company -- Lucas Entertainment -- was actually behind the legal dispute that led to the raid. Due to the contentious relationship and competiting claims between the companies involved, I can't say who's right but felt I should note it.)

-- Mike

The murder of Cobra Video kingpin Bryan Kocis has left police scratching their heads almost two weeks after his charred remains were discovered. Their one lead may have just gone cold, too: The man police wanted to question in connection to the slaying -- an escort from Norfolk, VA, named Harlow -- may have an alibi.

Last week police recovered an email from Kocis' hard drive where he said he would be meeting with a potential model the night of his murder. A picture of the model was released and he was quickly identified as Harlow from NorfolkMaleEscorts.com (where he's billed as a "stud wonder"). He also appears on the amateur site BoyBatter.com.

A Pennsylvania paper is reporting that Harlow claims to have never met Kocis, is "freaked out" that his image is being linked to the murder, and alleged that somebody is "playing a sick joke or something.”

After four weeks of intense deliberation the team at NakedSword has crowned their prince. Beautiful beastmaster Jake Deckard will be NakedSwordsman 2007 (past winners include Owen Hawk, Ben Jakks and Marcus Iron. The furry New Yorker came westward to San Francisco shortly after signing with Raging Stallion (previously, he had been an exclusive with Titan) and his laid back demeanor and proto-sexual nature (in his first interview as NakedSwordsman, he extols the sight of crack-hair wrapped around his meaty cock) seem an easy fit for the hilly Gomorrah.

In addition to wielding a scepter and go-go dancing in short shorts around the country (witness his anti-goverment 2257 dance here or his marathon butt-sex session with Matt Cole and Jason Crew here).

Despite the flowery portrait painted by Felchbot Fleshbot, Jake's actual initiation involved a bottle of poppers ('82 vintage), a giant commerorative scythe and a eleven barely restrained Dream Team members (all of whom were up for the honor). I'm sure Dominick Dunne is already writing the preamble to yet another high society crime (Pete Ross, we've got our eye on you!)

Related:

Jake Deckard: NakedSwordsman 2007 (NakedSword.com, interview and gallery, free)
Jake Deckard Desktop Wallpaper (NakedSword.com, free)
Jake Deckard: NakedSwordsman 2007 (Fleshbot, twee)
Jake's Body Works (Jake's massage site)
Lords of the Jungle trailer (NakedSword.com)

-- Mike

The charred remains of Bryan Charles Kocis were identified by Pennsylvania authorities earlier today and a formal murder investigation has begun. An autopsy revealed that he was stabbed to death. They believe that his house was intentionally set on fire to cover up the murder and his remains had to be identified by dental records, several PA newspapers are reporting.

No formal suspects have been named, but Citizen's Voice is reporting that police have questioned three California men he was involved in a "business dispute" with, one of which presumably is Sean Lockhart.

Kocis, 44, was best known for his complicated ongoing legal battle with Lockhart, better known as gay porn star Brent Corrigan, 21. Jason Curious is reporting that the two were seen hugging at Krave in Las Vegas earlier this month and that they had finally reached a settlement to their legal dispute that would have involved them working together again.

Tweaker.org, the tell-it-like-it-is San Francisco-based anti-crystal meth concern unveiled their ad latest campaign featuring gay porn stars Parker Williams, Matt Cole, Matthew Rush, Michael Brandon, Derrick Hanson, Jay Black and Tom Lazzari.

But they're not the only ones to take a stand against meth. Spencer Quest released a statement via email last week from rehab, where he has 9 weeks left on a 90-day program to treat his crystal habit.

“I finally accepted, the week before Christmas, that my meth use had become out-of-control. And while I've struggled with various addictions all my life and have been able to handle them, even stop them in their tracks, crystal meth got the best of me. And I nearly killed myself. Intentionally.”

The GAYVN Awards -- the closest the gay porn industry has to the Oscars -- were announced late yesterday to little fanfare (most likely because everyone is at the AVN Expo in Vegas but lil old me...)

As expected, Lucas Entertainment's La Dolce Vita was the most nominated with a total of 14. Buckshot Productions's Big Rig, Falcon's Velvet Mafia and Hot House's Justice were tied with 12 noms each.

COLT Studio Group garnered the most nominations -- 24 total -- with Channel 1 Releasing coming in a close second with 20.

Really, no shockers here ... unless you take the time to think about a few really glaringly ovbvious omissions in the lot ...

The awards will be held on February 24th, and for the first time they're being in San Francisco, at the Castro Theater -- smack dab in the heart of Gayville.

Click continue to see a complete list of nominees ...

Just as almost every major gay porn studio will garner a nod when the GayVN Award nominations for gay porn come out later this month (last year featured roughly thirty categories with ten to twelve nominees in each), so do the inevitable year end lists. ManNet's Butch Harris came out with his today ("The 100 Best Videos of 2006") and nearly every studio came out with a press release detailing their accomplishments. Good for them.

It takes a lot of work to produce as many gay porn movies as the industry does and it's hard to keep a up enthusiasm and quality when you're shooting three movies a month. There were plenty of great movies on Butch's list, but it's hard for porn lovers to sort through. Want something a little more manageable? Try NakedSword's Hit List. Culled from the viewing habits of the gay porn sites massive membership base, the site ranked the top viewed movie for each month last year (including personal favorites like Arabesque (Raging Stallion), Big Rig (Buckshot Productions), Trapped (Mustang Studios) and Fire Island Cruising 7 (Lucas Entertainment). They can't claim to be definitive, but at least you're assured a good time.

Related:

-- NakedSword's 'Hit List' (free, NakedSword.com)
-- ManNet's 10th Annual Best 100 Videos of the Year (ManNet.com, in frames)
-- Fleshbot's Top Ten Crush Objects of 2006 (gay.fleshbot.com)

-- Mike

As the year draws to a close, Mike and I would like to take a minute out of our normal stream of pornographic rantings to give you, gentle reader, two big thumbs up for making this blog what it is.

-- Jack

Legendary director Matt Sterling and porn star/director Andy Dill both died yesterday.

Matt Sterling -- considered to be one of the founders of the gay porn industry, having directed some of the first gay porn "loops" for his own Brentwood Studios, along with best-selling pre-condom classics like The Bigger The Better -- died after an 18-year bout with a neurological disease that caused him to be wheelchair-bound for the last several years of his life.

Andy Dill, 38, died very suddenly from meningitis. He starred in about twenty films for Raging Stallion, Titan and MSR before going on to start Dill Media, where he produced and directed "Bedrock" and several websites focused on red-headed guys. He was most recently named Vice President of Bear Films.

More:
Matt Sterling remembered by GayVN, Fleshbot, Jason Curious.

Andy Dill remembered by Lavender Lounge, J.C. Adams, Fleshbot.

Seems the timing on yesterday's entry wasn't that off. Christmas came early this year for porn fans in South Florida who were treated to a rare four nights of live performances by Lucas Ridgeston at the Boardwark in Ft. Lauderdale.

Fabscout Agent Howard Marr, who set up the event, gushed, "He was the sweetest, most charming and unassuming guy I have met in a while."

I distinctly remember being rendered speechless when I met Cool Blue at San Francisco Gay Pride two years ago as well.

Pictures after the jump ...

I've always purported that Bel Ami demi-god Lucas Ridgeston was the most movie-star handsome of all his gay porn brethren, which is why I was excited (but not the least bit surprised) to discover that he appears -- somewhat Clark Kent-ified -- on the cover of the Scissor Sisters' new(ish) album Ta-Dah.

It all makes perfect sense, right? After all, it was Lucas and Scissor Sister's ultra-fruity front man Jake Shears who were seen canoodling at Sir Elton's after-Oscar bash last year.

The album was released in September so admittedly this is not exactly late-breaking news. However, frequent readers of this blog should know Bel Ami cross-over success stories give me a hard-on almost as quickly as Lucas in Love does.

Close up of the album cover after the jump ...

Marcus Allen/Timothy Boham was arrested on suspicion of murder while trying to flee to Mexico earlier today (in an ending that eerily echos that of Wash West's porn fiction feature The Fluffer.)

The picture of Boham that emerges in the wake of his arrest suggests a deeply troubled man who was struggling with his sexuality -- and temper.

Although he was a fairly well-known porn star (he starred in over a dozen movies over the past few years, and was named "Freshman of the Year" by Freshman Magazine in 2003), he was a gun-collecting, homophobic straight man when away from the gay porn spotlight. Denver Post reports:

... Boham told Lara Holland, who lived in a Denver mansion on High Street in an apartment a floor below Boham, that he "sanitized" his apartment by thoroughly scrubbing it because a gay man had lived there previously, she said.

"He hated (gays)," she said. "He hated their lifestyle."

Gay-for-pay porn star Marcus Allen -- (who appeared in Through The Woods, among others) is the primary suspect in the murder case of John P. Kelso, his boss and president of a Denver financial company.

Rocky Mountain News is reporting that Allen (real name Timothy J. Bohan, aged 25,) is considered armed and dangerous and may have fled the state (but no mention of his gay porn past ... yet).

The former Studio 2000 exclusive was featured in this year's Playgirl Magazine "Campus Hunks" issue, under the name "John".

Update: Porn star held in wealthy man's slaying
Update: Timothy/Marcus was just arrested near the Mexico border.

Politics and porn are often uncomfortable bedfellows, but in the case of the Soviet Bloc over fifteen years ago, the fall of some led to the, er, rise of others. When men in countries like Czechoslovakia and Hungary finally gained access to the West, there was plenty of free trade to go around.

Granted, in the decade that followed, the 'trade' wasn't always free. A flood of porn producers came to the Eastern Europe to capture the flood of gorgeous uncut cocks. Roland Dane had one of those cocks, but his debut in Falcon's Out of Athens (2000, dir. John Rutherford) set him apart from his oft-photographed countrymen. In the years since, he's worked for Studio 2000 as both a model and director. Recently, he returned to the lens of the man who discovered him over seven years ago -- sweet, sexy Roland is working with John Rutherford to head up the COLT Studio Group's Olympus international line.

Roland's still living in Budapest with his boyfriend, but he hasn't lost his charm or sex appeal -- or his taste for a little bit of spitting and soft leather. Find out more after the jump...

1. Michael Lucas' La Dolce Vita

When Elizabeth Berkley pushed the limits of softcore raunch with bottomless lapdances, nipple painting and faux-menstuation in "Showgirls", people were genuinely shocked to see an alumnus from squeaky clean teen Bayside High take such a porny turn. Since then, it's become so commonplace for co-stars of the show to have to show some skin to pay the bills, the show's legacy has become the porn equivalent of "Diff'rent Strokes" crime curse.

To date, Mark-Paul Gosselaar flashed his ass on "NYPD Blue" and Mario Lopez, just this month, mooned primetime with his near-perfect bubble on "Nip/Tuck":

But when news hit the Interweb this morning of a sextape starring nerd king Dustin Diamond (who played Screech) in a three way complete with a Dirty Sanchez (!), one can't help but cynically smell a very unoriginal P.R. stunt ...

Michael Lucas's much publicized trip to Israel to dirty dance in Tel Aviv for his war weary countrymen has received its fair share of both commendation and rabid denunciation in the past few weeks. Lucas himself has noted that Israel is much more progressive than the US in its acceptance of gay military men and live sex shows.

While I admire his dedication to his craft and cause (and his the recent publication of his article on porn for the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism showed him to be insightful as well as just in sight), sometime's I'm tempted to tell him I just want to get laid. You can read all about the trip on his blog: I've got dirty pictures of some of the newer Lucas Entertainment models that might accompany Lucas on his make-love-not-war adventure...

Admittedly, we've been lax in reporting on the on-going government investigation and legal brouhaha surrounding the soldiers of the 82nd Airborne who appeared in Dink Flamingo's Active Duty productions since the story broke in January in part because it's so baffling.

Since the investigation started, seven enlisted paratroopers have been charged and two have pleaded guilty to sodomy and drug-related charges, each facing up to three months of jail time. While that's sort of fucked up to being with, it just gets more twisted ...

Josh Weast, a 22-year-old cheerleading coach at a Catholic high school in Illinois, was fired when the principal discovered he appeared in gay porn, the Associated Press reported yesterday.

It only took a few hours for the sleuths at Qweerty to find Josh's MySpace Profile.

Judging from a familiarly watermarked picture in his profile, they surmised that he was a Falcon star. Clearly, they hadn't seen Cross Country, or they would have recognized him as Andrew Bryant, who was in the fourway in Part 1, (he was also in the orgy scene in Driver).

Even more gratutious photos after the jump!

I've gotten a few emails from readers asking why -- despite my morbid fascination with dead porn stars -- I haven't mentioned the missing-turned-dead American strippers whose bodies were found in a quarry in Montreal last month.

I guess I was genuinely sketched by the possibility that they were murdered, and getting more creeped out by the fact that I'd wanked to Mark (right) on Jake Cruise's excellent new amateur site Straight Guys For Gay Eyes (see "Nick" and "Nick II").

Well, yesterday the cause of death was officially ruled "accidental" (link via Towleroad) . The tragic-comic spin being that a video surveillance camera captured the two trying to skip out on their cab fare: Chased by the driver, they jumped the fence surrounding the quarry, ignoring the signs in French warning of the impending 50 foot drop. Le ouch.

For more pictures of Mark/Nick check out SG4GE.com (You sick fuck!)

-- Jack

Reaching deep into his acting reserves, megawatt muscle-stud Jason Adonis has signed a deal to bottom in Jet Set Production's newest release. The filming has yet to commence and we're holding our breath hoping the straight stud won't 'back' out. But we're sending rosebuds just the same.

Adonis has had a tumultous rise to fame after being discovered by then Jet Set President Brett Drysdale. The hulking behemoth went on to star in a series of high-profile Jet Set releases, including Wash West's The Hole and American Porn Star before being whisked away as a Lifetime Exclusive by Falcon Studios for the best-selling and mile-high Taking Flight.

His exclusive contract didn't last a lifetime however and Adonis was soon a free agent again. He signed onto the Wet Palms gay porn soap for three episodes during which another straight man -- the ever ready Rod Barry -- bottomed for the pumped hunk. Most recently, the heterophilic Adonis appeared in Athletic Model Guild's Resurrection and talked about discussing creating his own production company, Jason Adonis Entertainment.

-- Mike

Props, yo, to my homegirl Violet Blue, who was recently (and somewhat surprisingly) profiled on the front page of the Wall Street Journal's Marketplace section because her podcast, Open Source Sex, is (and somewhat not surprisingly) one of the most-downloaded shows on the iTunes podcast directory. MSNBC.com followed suit and ran a similar story.

Before the weekend started, her show was ranked #11 on iTunes, but with all the publicity, Open Source Sex is now ranked #6, #5, #4 #3 (above CNN and the WSJ), which is thrilling for me, too as I was a guest on episode #9, talking shit on a variety of topics. You can download that very episode directly from Violet's Tiny Nibbles here, or go hit the "Podcast" link on your iTunes and find it from there.

-- Jack

Gay porn awards are, themselves, a rather dubious distinction. Imagine how many guffaws I get when you I tell people I've won a GayVN for Best Screenplay. Not to mention trying to tell them you're nominated for a Grabby. Pornographers can't get no respect.

Legendary gay porn studio All Worlds Video is giving away $20,000 -- and the gay porn stars are flocking like moths to a flame. And who wouldn't? A "mega orgy" at the glorious All Worlds Resort in Palm Springs, filmed by eight cameramen being followed by six directors? It's outrageous! (Truth be told, All Worlds Video does multiple directors/cameramen in its popular Porn Struck series - sans prize.)

So far, over 40 gay porn stars have signed up for the massive gay porn gang bang. But the $20,000 dollar prize isn't performance based -- it's random. The drawing will be held at the end of the shoot, but with 40 porn stars vying for the prize -- and only one lucky winner -- I fear there maybe some bloodshed before the day is over.

So far, the line up for the video sex challenge includes hot-for-professor porn star Jacob Slader, Jason Ridge, Jason Hawke, Sam Dixon, Pete Ross, Jack Van Dean, Jeremy Jordan, Andy Hunter and Ben Damon (to mention but a few).

Personally, I can't wait to hear the winner proclaim -- in the, um, vein of Linda Evangelista -- that they don't get INTO of bed for less than 20K-a-day. Dare to dream, kids, dare to dream.

-- Mike

As promised, here's more pictures from the illustrious evening. I'm amazed that, as messy as I was, that I managed to get even this many pictures.

Like, so solly it took so long to get 'em all posted, but enjoy, y'all.

-- Jack
(All photos by ME)

Since "left-leaning Internet bloggers discovered possible ties to gay prostitution" (that would be porn, btw) on Tuesday, gay bashing conservative reporter (and perhaps fan of hard, working Marines) Jeff Gannon, retired yesterday, due to "attention being paid to me," Gannon said.

Links: Washington Post, NY Daily News, Salon, Chicago Tribune, CNN.

Boy George was so entranced by Mike's interview with Johnny Hazzard that he snatched him up and threw him on the runway to model his new clothing line B-Rude last night, stunning the fashionistas at Fashion Week in NY. OK, I kid. I'm sure Hazzard's appearance was planned well in advance of our interview, but this certainly isn't the first time that a gay porn star has graced a high-fashion runway.

Jeff Stryker did runway for Thierry Mugler years ago. Mark Dalton modeled underwear for Raymond Dragon, ( Mister Dragon is no stranger to porn), and lest we forget John Bartlett got (straight) male model Brad Kroenig to pretend he was a porn star and drop trou on his runway last year. Jeremy Penn modeled for the short-lived Tom of Finland Clothing line (that is, clothes inspired by the legendary porn artiste - click on the previous link for a picture of Mr. Penn looking tough), and maybe also A&F, but don't, like, quote me on that.

I even spied Marcus Iron on the runway last year for SF-based menswear designer D. Romero. Oh, and of course Michael Lucas started his career doing runway and print in Europe before he defected to the US. I mean, it makes sense: Porn stars have nice bodies and, well, most fashion designers are big nelly queens anyway.

-- Jack

Nuts. Rio. Porn. I first fell for a Brazilian when I saw Kristen Bjorn's Paradise Plantation. My boyfriend watched the porn reluctantly (it was an experiment in spicing up a doomed relationship). I was amazed by the dark, uncut men who could go all day and still get the cum fucked out of them at the end of each scene...

As mounting DNA evidence suggests that Bradford Thomas Wagner, a 36-year-old Colorado real estate agent, may be a serial rapist, the Aspen Daily News made the connection that he was the gay porn star Tim Barnett.

Given the general public's predilection towards gay porn stars, I can't imagine this revelation helping his case much.

In the 90s, Barnett was in a bunch of films, including Billy's Tale, for Falcon and Dynastud 2 for HIS.

-- Jack

Well, another Folsom Fair has come and gone. Spoke to my friend, Cedar in Portland, and out of the 20 years they have produced it, this is the first Folsom Fair he's missed. I missed the very first one, but I've been to 19 of the 20. At prior Folsom Fairs, I have run my own booth a couple times, run booths for other organizations a couple times, videotaped the event several times, shot B-roll for a porno once, and threw 4 or 5 fan-tabulous after-parties.

Ran into Hot House porn star Corey Jay. He just moved back in town to go back to school (forgot what he is going to study...)

Had coffee with Drew Warner on Saturday, then ran into him on Sunday at the Fair hanging with Falcon's Matthew Rush (sorry, no picture).

My red head pal, Brian Shawn, used to do movies for Al Parker (as Brain DePaul), Video 10, Redboard, and several others. I've known him for about 12 years, and he suddenly grew into this enormous muscle stud and now goes by the name Tom Lord. He wants do more movies, so I better grab him quick!

I also ran into those adorable Cornfed Boys, Matt and Nate, from Seattle. I would love to be the bologna in that sandwich! I told Matt that I wanted to steal his idea from their first movie where he jacked off under a black light with florescent paint.

Hot House had a big weekend, too. I ran into them at trade show on Friday morning, at the Castro Gulch while I was hanging with Drew, at the Folsom Fair, and even at the Falcon party on Friday night.

Oh, and before I forget (and before everyone forgets her) I got to meet Mary Carey on Friday, the porn star girl running for governor.

Speaking of the Falcon party, it was big bash for their new two-part release "Drenched", shot in Hawaii, so naturally it was a Hawaiian theme with all the boys in loin cloths.

I flirted with Alex LeMonde, whom I met in Vegas back in January. Flawless abs, and that French accent makes me melt.

Chase Hunter, the star of Drenched, was featured in this movie, as it is his return to the business. Apparently, the only thing preventing him from doing movies all these years was a jealous boyfriend, which he no longer has to contend with.

Wow! What a weekend, and the Castro Street Fair is only a few days away!

I spent all weekend wishing I was in Chicago for International Mr. Leather. It seems that every year the event generates even more buzz, so it's on my list for next year, come hell or high water (whatever that means...)

IML weekend also includes the Grabby Awards. Click [continue] to see all the winners, or just click the box to see Sean Storm's Best Solo Performance in Open Trench 2, from Sports and Rec.

May 8-9

I am writing this on yet another plane, this time coming home from LA where I attended the GayVN Awards.

Unlike the lavish award shows of the past few years, this year it was a scaled down affair for about 75 industry insiders. And when I say "insiders", it was so exclusive you couldn't get in without an invite no matter who you bribed or blew. Only nominees and judges were invited - no agents, handlers, significant others, personal shoppers, therapists, nor sugar daddies were allowed.

I arrived in my powder blue polyester John Travolta suit and vintage Hawaiian shirt ready for some major schmoozing. Ran into Matt Sizemore on the sidewalk on his way to Cocktails With the Stars at Mickeys. The GayVN's were just a few doors down at Rage. Too bad there was a time conflict, I would love to have attended both.

I'm going to try to recall as many names as possible, even ones I didn't speak to, but believe it or not, I spoke to almost everyone because it was really an intimate affair with a manageable number of people.

Our host, Jeremy Spencer (the gay/bi editor at AVN) gave me a big hug as I entered. His boss, AVN owner Paul Fishbein was there watching over things.

My old friend from years ago, Terry Mahaffy came in right behind me. He's now the acting-President of Falcon Studios, and still looking pretty fine.

Next I said hi to my SF homeboys from Raging Stallion - Chris Ward, J.D. Slater, Micheal Soldier, and Michael Brandon.

Got a hug from Chi Chi LaRue. She still greets me everytime with, "You old tired thing, you." (I don't think she remembers my name...)

Said hi to Paul Baressi and thanked him for the interview last week. Later on in the evening he tried to convince me that I should line up 8 bear-ish looking guys and a location in the Bay Area for him to shoot a movie. Sorry Paul, if I wanted to go through that much work, I'd shoot it myself. I just wanted to get next to someone who's had sex with John Travolta, and probably did it while wearing my blue suit 25 years ago.

Billy Masters ran up and gave me a big hug, gushing about how much he enjoyed my story about his brunch last Sunday in Palm Springs. He's a good person to know, I wanna keep in touch with him.

I was thrilled to see Drew Warner, I feel like he's one of my closest pals in the industry. I admire his air of confidence and that deep sexy voice just melts me.

About this time I took a chance and walked up to a stranger that I thought I recognized. As I approached, it was clear that he recognized me, too. I asked him, "Are you from Oakland?" He immediately replied with an enthusiastic, "Golds Gym!"

The story goes, last month I received a copy of Blue Blake's video "Hard As Rock" whcih was coincidently shot by Drew Warner. The cover guy was Scott Gunz, Blue's latest hot bodybuilder discovery, who made a big sensation in the press when it came out.

I'd seen this guy at the gym a few times, but a few weeks ago I saw him again and noticed a resemblance to the guy in the video. I dismissed the thought that they were the same person because, "the guy in the video is so much taller". Scott got a big kick out of that. We had some laughs, and he ended up sitting next to me during dinner and the awards. A dream come true.

I had a nice chat with TLA Video, also saw Gino Colbert, Thor, Blake Harper, Colton Ford, Michael Lucas, Chad Hunt (Michael and Chad were just on Ricki Lake), Bret Wolfe, Rod Barry, and so many others!

I also realized there are industry insiders, and there are then there are Industry Insiders. After all that hoopla about "only judges and nominees" being allowed in, how did Morgan and Tim from Cybersocket and Karl from Bedfellow get in? Hmmm. They're my pals and super-sweet, I was really glad to see them. They're soon the be the new powerbrokers in this industry.

Earlier that day I read Mickey Skee's scathing article in one of the local rags complaining about choices for the Hall of Fame. I won't repeat it for fear of fanning the fire further. (Got alliteration?)

For the awards presentation I sat right up front between Drew Warner and Scott Gunz (my bodyguards). Chi Chi bagan her hosting duties walking through the crowd acknowledging each director or studio head and reminding us what a wonderful industry we have and how we should all work together in solidarity. And why not? They've all slept with each other already.

The award presentation zipped by at lightning speed. At the last minute I pulled out a pen to take notes on a napkin, and Drew decided to do the same so he could give the info to J.C. Adams for his column in Inside Porn. They were calling names and categories faster than I could write, but it was even more difficult cause Drew was sharing my pen. Thank god he was there to repeat things for me.

I had one more peak experience after the show which, by itself, would have made the trip worthwhile. Super-agent David Forest probably wouldn't have been able to attend this scaled down affair (there would have been hell to pay), but luckily he was nominated for Best Non-Sex Performance in "Brad's Buddies" (based on his life story). After the show, he was standing with none other than Mark Dalton. Ohmygod, I've turned into a swooning schoolgirl! Mark Dalton!

He was standing there in a cut-off black tshirt, showing his fabulous abs, and the shirt said, "Fuck me. I'm famous." Rarely does anyone wearing those kind of slogans actually pull it off. He did. I would. We know.

I haven't even finished writing about last weekend, and I leave for LA in an hour for the GayVN Awards (the gay porn video awards, to which I was a judge).

As soon as I get back Friday I jump in the car and head for a retreat down the coast.

Mucho updates on Monday!

The day of the actual Bad Boys Pool Party finally arrived Saturday, starting with brunch at the Villa Resort. It was hosted by Filth2Go's Billy Masters, celebrity insider and close friend of Joan Rivers, et al. (Billy's cousin is Catherine Oxenberg of Dynasty and The Colby's. She's a distant relation to Princess Diana, which allows Billy to accurately trace how many steps he is away from REALLY being a queen. But I digress.)

I sat with Chuck (the first photo is Billy and Chuck.), the promotions guy from Falcon who brought along a two friends he just met the night before. One was named P.K. (an even larger version of Anna Nicole Smith) who's business card said, " Decorum Observed, Parties Crashed, Ears Licked, Orgies Consulted, Decadence Revered, Bars Hopped, Feasts Catered, Ankles Nibbled, Pets Stroked, and Unicorns Bred". She was a hoot.

The party started with a bang. I spent the entire day carrying the video camera, trying to be in 3 places at once. There was so much eye candy, no matter where I went, I needed to be shooting something else at the same time. Nudity was everywhere, the men were gorgeous and flirty, I was beside myself.

I missed all the performances on stage because I was interviewing porn legends Paul Barressi, Robert Black, Jason Branch and Rik Jammer. Those interviews will be shown as part of NakedSword's Weekly Report. I also shot enough material to compile an 8 minute video segment ala Entertainment Tonight. (Stay tuned for links to those videos.)

A new gimmick launched this year that I really enjoyed was when the beefier porn stars took turns doing erotic pose-downs. They had a weight bench and some dumbells for the guys to pump up, flex, pose, stretch, strip, and even a bit of wanking (no money shots allowed, though.)

So who was there, you ask? Here's some of the highlights of my porn star sightings, although as I said, I couldn't see everyone or be everywhere.

-Zak Spears: Woof. He was on the top of my list to interview, but couldn't find him. Next time.
-Matt Sizemore: Recovering (beautifully) from a recent car accident.
-Danny Lopez: Carumba, he's hot! I think I had a dream about him the other day.
-Eric Evans: So huggable, I want him as a plush toy on my bed.
-Kevin Kramer: Disco flagging all day on stage in front of the NakedSword banner (that should sell some memberships!) On the plane I was reading about him appearing in Bruce LaBruce's "Hustler White".

It that enough name dropping? More on Saturday night and Michael Brandon's "Inappropriate Behavior" Sunday BBQ later.