Dec
31
2008′s Top Stories on Gay Porn Times
December 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Man, did we cover a lot of ground in 2008. The top stories on Gay Porn Times cover an incredible range of subjects. Here we go, the most heavily trafficked stories of the past year (moving chronologically):
JANUARY 2008
* “Chi Chi LaRue Debuts New Safer-Sex PSA”
* “Mark Dalton to Remain Behind Bars Until 2009”
* “GAYVN Hosts Criticized; Derek Hartley Hits Back”
* “Fresh Meat: Hunky Pup Kaden Saylor” (pictured)
* “Josh Weston Goes Condomless for SX Video”
* “Meet Brittany Coxxx (a.k.a. Stonie)” That story about Ms. Coxxx was not only one of the busiest stories on GPTimes that month, but it’s in the top ten for the whole dang year. CLICK HERE for more top stories…!
Dec
31
In Memoriam: Passings, 2008
December 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment
* April 23, 2008: Jean-Daniel Cadinot, director, photographer, legend. Late August brought news of the Maestro’s final two films.
* May 1, 2008: Mark West, retired performer.
* July 7, 2008: Lamar (real name: Eric Lamar Turner), CocoDorm performer.
* Late July: Cole Ryder, performer.
* In July, we received word that performer Dante Franklin had died, but have not been able to verify any information about how or when it happened.
* October 10, 2008: Franco Santoro, performer.
* Plus, in late June and July, performer Kent North was memorialized by friends and loved ones on the one-year anniversary of his death. [Image © Channel 1 Releasing.]
Dec
31
Happy Ending: Sending Off 2008
December 31, 2008 | 3 Comments
Cheers, folks, and Happy New Year to all of ya knuckleheads (hey, 2008, don’t let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya). There isn’t much going on in GayPornLand, obviously, but we’ll have some stuff going up today, and then we’ll be posting on a limited basis through the weekend. So when you’ve recovered from your champagne headaches (the solution is to drink really expensive champers in the first place), come on back to Gay Porn Times. In the meanwhile, enjoy Jackson Wild’s bum. No reason; just ‘cuz. That’s Kevin Cavalli staring down at it. CLICK HERE for a trailer of Mr. Cavalli massaging Mr. Wild’s perky globes. [Image ¬© CockyBoys.]
Dec
30
Cybersocket Web Awards! Vote for GPTimes!
December 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Dept. of Self-Promotion: Gay Porn Times has been nominated for our second consecutive Cybersocket Web Award, and there’s still time to cast your vote. (Hot, wet kisses to those who have already done so.) We want to kick the asses of those other porn blogs and, as I keep pointing out, if you don’t vote, then a little towheaded studpup will cry. Do you want to make a studpup cry? No, you don’t. So CLICK HERE to vote for Gay Porn Times for “Best Adult Blog”! Bless.
Dec
30
New Release Desk: “De-Briefed”
December 30, 2008 | 6 Comments
New Release Desk: Tighty-whitey enthusiasts, step back. The latest from Rascal Video and Channel 1 Releasing is DE-BRIEFED (yoinks!) via directrix Chi Chi LaRue. That DVD insert is rather attractive; kudos, as ever, to veteran package designer Todd Alan. The passel of twinkishly cute pups romping hither and yon include Nick Cross, Shane Frost, Jared King, Ridge Michaels, Colby Night, Dallas Reeves, Like Riley, Kameron Scott and Justin Taylor with sultry Dominic Pacifico for good measure. I’m rather partial to the beauteous Dallas Reeves, even though it’s taken him awhile to loosen up onscreen. His floppy blond hair and ice-blue eyes remind me of a young Chad Knight, who made his erotic debut all the way back in 1991 (ack!), meaning Mr. Reeves was likely still in elementary school at the time. Channel 1 is also touting South American import SUGAR CANE STUDS (Alexandre Senna and Alex Jr. are featured), as well as Catalina Video re-release CHICAGO ERECTION COMPANY (1996; d. Josh Eliot) headlining the luscious Brandon Reevet and Adriano Marquez in their beefcake-y prime.
Dec
30
Porn for the Blind (Not a Joke) (Probably)
December 30, 2008 | 1 Comment
God(dess) bless America. Check it out: PornForTheBlind.org. Did any of our Constant Readers know about this and fail to tell me? If so, we really don’t know each other at all. Per the bare-bones website, “Porn for the Blind is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to producing audio descriptions of sample movie clips from adult web sites. This service is provided free of charge.” That’s it, followed by a simple blogroll of dozens of links to various amateur porn websites, almost entirely hetero. A bit more detail is provided in their Wikipedia entry. CLICK HERE for more…
Dec
30
The Biz: Jet Set Explores Straight-Guy Seduction
December 30, 2008 | 20 Comments
[Editor's note: Gay Porn Times has signed a deal to provide LGBT content to industry publication XBIZ.] Jet Set Productions has recently wrapped 5 EASY WAYS TO FUCK A STRAIGHT GUY. The gay-for-pay-themed feature was shot on location in Sun Valley, Calif. Newly-signed studio exclusive Adam Campbell (pictured) joins stablemate Marcus Steele with featured players Mason Alexander, Patrick Bateman, Vince Ferelli, Jason Pitt and Austin Wrigley. Costars Cody Carter, Ryan Rockford and Dempsey Stearns are pro/am and amateur website performers making their first foray into the made-for-DVD market. This also is the first DVD feature for Campbell, who shares co-exclusive status with CollegeDudes247.com. “We gathered some of the most notorious gay-for-pay guys in amateur porn and asked them to bottom on-camera for us. And they did,” said helmer Chris Steele… CLICK HERE for the full story at XBIZ!
Dec
29
The Biz: DVD Release Party Set for ‘Twinks Finally 18′
December 29, 2008 | 4 Comments
[Editor's note: Gay Porn Times has signed a deal to provide LGBT content to industry publication XBIZ.] Gay boutique studio PZP Productions has announced a late-January release for the first installment of its nascent ‚ÄúTwinks Finally 18‚Äù line. ID Lube will cosponsor a DVD release party to launch the series. Newcomer Randy Phoenix makes his blue-movie debut in the film. Featured players include Ethan Connor, Manny Emmanuel, Roland Haye, Steve Miller, Sean Preston, Giovanni Summers and Justin Taylor. TWINKS FINALLY 18, VOL. ONE streets Jan. 20. That also is Inauguration Day for President-elect Barack Obama. ‚ÄúI chose Inauguration Day as a release date because I thought it was going to be a euphoric day worldwide,‚Äù studio president Peter Z. Pan said. ‚ÄúNow, after the Rick Warren betrayal, I wish I would have chosen Valentine‚Äôs Day instead…‚Äù CLICK HERE for the full story at XBIZ!
Dec
29
BlogWatch: The View from GayPornLand
December 29, 2008 | 3 Comments
* Tre Xavier enjoys an impressively slutty holiday party (Tre’s X-Ray Vision).
* Steve Cruz stripped and dry-humped random strangers at the Faultine in Los Angeles for Christmas (Steve Cruz blog).
* Ricky Sinz on the 12 ways sex-for-sale has changed the interwebs (Ricky Sinz’ Hardcore Hangout).
* Behind the scenes of a D.O. photo shoot, set to a trancelike, house beat (YouTube: Dionisio Heiderscheid).
* François Sagat unfortunately lost his cat over the holidays (François Sagat blog).
* It’s not too late to jump in a caption contest featuring Club Inferno‘s FISTING ALL STARS (GayPornBlog: Caption This).
Dec
29
U.K. Minister Proposes Ratings System to Curb Online Raciness
December 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Andy Burnham, the British Culture Secretary, has asked President-Elect Barack Obama for help in bringing “the online version of movie ratings to the English-speaking web,” reports XBIZ, via The Daily Telegraph. Mr. Burnham called the ‘net “quite a dangerous place” and seeks to apply standards of decency to the web, including implementing the kind of ratings system applied to films and video games. “There is content that should just not be available to be viewed. This is not a campaign against free speech, far from it; it is simply [that] there is a wider public interest at stake when it involves harm to other people,” Mr. Burnham said. “We have got to get better at defining where the public interest lies and being clear about it.” As XBIZ reports, he wants to “impose time limits within which websites would have to remove ‘offensive or harmful content’ after being notified of its presence on the site,” but has not specified penalties for missing the deadline, or whether he would also target social networking or user-generated content sites. He additionally is calling for a provision that would provide “low-cost legal services” to those individuals “who are defamed online.” The WashingtonPost.com blog TechCrunch notes that “(i)n the US tech scene you have weekend ‘bitchmemes.’ In the UK, there is a kind of equivalent known as ‘government minister opens mouth and inserts foot.’ This weekend it was the turn of Andy Burnham… [who] is supposed to take an interest in the Internet. Unfortunately, his weekend interview with a newspaper betrayed the simple fact that he knows nothing at all about how the Internet works. Nothing.”
Dec
29
Apple Rejects App Using F-Word; Adult Zone in Works?
December 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Hooboy, it‚Äôs slow out there in GayPornLand. Hope everyone had a good Christmas weekend. Check out this bit of news that surfaced last week: Author David Carnoy submitted his mystery thriller Knife Music to the Apple App Store and was taken aback when the novel was rejected. The reason? It wasn‚Äôt sexuality, or violence, but the word ‚Äúfuck,‚Äù if you can believe it. How cute! ‚ÄúCensorship it is not, but still a surprising move for a company known for pushing boundaries,‚Äù notes Von.com (‚ÄúApple Says No Porn for You…Or Even Bad Words‚Äù). Naturally one might wonder what criteria the Apple Apple Store is using to determine suitability. Mr. Carnoy believes the culprit is simply ‚Äúword-matching software.‚Äù On the other hand, ‚Äúrejecting everything with a four-letter word seems like it would deny Apple the ability to publish anything other than the most squeaky clean of the squeaky clean kinds of reading materials.‚Äù Although Steve Jobs has declared the App Store a raciness-free zone (XBIZ reports that a jiggly-boobs app using the iPhone‚Äôs motion sensor was rejected, more‚Äôs the pity), apparently a NSFW ‚Äúzone‚Äù is in the works. Yup, the timing feels about right; wait until everyone‚Äôs addicted to your iPhone (or the latest whizbang gizmo) before you ‚Äúallow‚Äù the spicy content, then rake in the cash, and ride out the fundamentalist bleats.
Dec
28
Porn Star Birthdays: Dec. 29 – January 4
December 28, 2008 | 2 Comments
Sergio Anthony, Billy Hughes, Vince Rockland, Joey Verro (December 29); Adriano, Trenton Comeaux, Sean Conner, Erik Kovac, Lex Kyler, Bob MacHeath, Glenn Matthews (December 30); Patrick Allen, Miguel Antonio (December 31); Andel, Scott Daniels, Alexei Ferrera, John Marcus, Dixon Parker, Tom [Thom] Southern, Scott Williams (January 1); DC Chandler, Josh Hammer, Bruce Hill, Ricky Martinez, Claudio Meneses, Mikey, Mike Vista (January 2); Dirk Adams, Tim Bruno, Rick Estephan, Lorice Jackman [Zsolt K., Stefan Toth], Mark Long, Ben Mason [Akos G., Akos Gazdag], Eddie Moreno, David Pierre, Tanner Reeves, Luis Sanchez, T.J., Jean Walace, Todd Winters (January 3); Anton, Michael Cooper, Kent Michaels, Lucas Rally, Sean Sullivan, Lorenzo Vargas (January 4). [Did we miss a PSB? Leave a comment and let us know!]
Dec
27
Jordan Jaric is a Brand-New Man
December 27, 2008 | 11 Comments
Pictured are real-life boyfriends and Falcon exclusives Aden Jaric and Jordan Jaric. At left is a promo still for their forthcoming MALIBU HEAT. At right is one of my favorite shots of the boys from earlier this year. Notice anything different? Jordan Jaric recently had a nose job. What do we think? It’s quite a dramatic change. He looks good ‚Äî the boys always look good ‚Äî but I’m biased, as I am deeply partial to that straight-bridged aquiline profile. “Of course he got a nose job. It’s been planned for a long time. He has wanted it [since] he was twelve,” Aden told my colleague, Mark Adams. CLICK HERE to visit their official blog. (Oh, and their pure-bred Pomeranian just had a litter of puppies. Too-much-cuteness… Must-get-drunk…) [Photos ¬© Falcon Studios; H/T VidioView.]
Dec
27
The Biz: HDK Touts DVD Lifetime Guarantee
December 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment
[Editor's note: Gay Porn Times has signed a deal to provide LGBT content to industry publication XBIZ.] Gay studio Hot Desert Knights has released Brazilian import RAW LATIN FUCKERS via its nascent All Stud Releasing distribution arm. It is their first film released under a new DVD registration policy. RAW LATIN FUCKERS was directed by Marcello Rodriguez and showcases an 11-member cast engaged in five hardcore, condomless vignettes. HDK notes it is the company‚Äôs “first film to be shot in a 16×9 widescreen format and 5.1 digital surround sound.” As well, it is their first product to receive a lifetime guarantee… CLICK HERE for the full story at XBIZ.
Dec
26
Beauty Shot: Alex “Militia” Castro
December 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Beauty Shot: The scuttlebutt is that NBC’s reboot of American Gladiators has been given the axe after two short cycles that aired earlier this year. That means Alex “Militia” Castro is likely out of a job; he earned a skosh of notoriety when it was revealed that the burly Cuban gladiator had posed for COLT Studio some years ago using the moniker Elian Cortez. Man, no one is escaping the pinch of this recession. So we’re running these beefcake photos in case the man-mountain doesn’t appear onscreen again for awhile.
See also:
* “Ex-COLT Hunk Returns to ‘American Gladiators’”
* “New ‘American Gladiator’ an Ex-COLT Man“
[Images © COLT Studio.]
Dec
26
New-ish Release Desk: “Perfect Pairs 1-2″
December 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment
PERFECT PAIRS, VOL. 1 from Studio 2000 was released back in October, with a second volume quickly following at some point. Performer-turned-director Luciano Haas emailed recently to draw my attention to them. The films, like S2K’s recent 5 SENSES, were both shot on location around Buenos Aires and environs. Each boasts six scenes (five duos plus a bonus sixth catch-all vignette). The billed cast of VOL. 1 includes Alejandro, Anthony, Axel Augusto, Juan Cruz, Diego, Jonas, Lucho, Lucky, Martin, Tony and Julian Tupac; for VOL. 2 we get Abdul, Axel Augusto, Juan Blas, Coky, Thomas Crespo, Facu, Juan Ignacio, Junior, Lazaro, Lucas, Mauro and Niko. Judging from the DVD inserts (I haven’t screen them yet) the guys are uniformly slender, smooth-chested and rakishly cute. Some of those names ring a bell, but clearly we’re going to need a South American branch of the Eastern European Office of Standards, Weights, Measures and Porn Names. Otherwise, Mr. Haas plays for the home team, a refreshing change of pace when we’re on the topic of imported porn, no matter the country of origin, and it bodes well for the quality of the sex. However, the S2K films join similar efforts from an array of smaller labels, to say nothing of recent movies produced by AMG Brasil, Falcon and Jet Set. Standing out from the pack is going to take some effort and ingenuity. [Full disclosure: I was head of production at S2K for two years, through last summer.]
Dec
26
The Biz: HDK Forms All Stud Releasing
December 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment
[Editor's note: Gay Porn Times has signed a deal to provide LGBT content to industry publication XBIZ.] Gay adult production studio Hot Desert Knights has formed an in-house distribution arm, All Stud Releasing. The new company currently handles only HDK product but will explore taking on outside companies on a case-by-case basis. Several weeks ago, HDK terminated its relationship with All Boys Distribution, and subsequently signed a non-exclusive deal with 1 Distribution. HDK has several similar, concurrent deals in place with AVNS and New Barbary Coast. “We have found they provide wonderful service to their customers,” Gardner said. “We encourage all retailers who currently purchase from them to continue buying from these fine companies…” CLICK HERE for the full story at XBIZ!
Dec
25
Merry Christmas from Gay Porn Times!
December 25, 2008 | Comments Off
Dec
25
Reese Rideout Sings “Alvin & the Chipmunks”
December 25, 2008 | 16 Comments
Dec
24
Hot Links: Christmas Eve Edition
December 24, 2008 | 2 Comments
Merry Christmas Eve to all of you porn hogs. Thank you kindly for stopping by today. Please enjoy a quickie links guide to a few of our most heavily trafficked stories over the past week or two here at Gay Porn Times. We’ll be posting on a light holiday schedule over the next four days, so come on back when you’ve had your fill of turkey and eggnog. (And, yes, MERRY XXX-mas, pictured here, is an actual film, a 1999 Eastern European import that Channel 1 Releasing repackaged several years ago.)
* “Beauty Shot Trois: Tyler Johnson”
* “Beauty Shot Redux: Tyler Johnson in ‘Wood Work’”
* “The Biz: ’09 GAYVN Awards Official Announcement”
* “Beauty Shot: Bobby Clark, Phenix Saint”
* “The Grapevine: Male Teen TV Idol Doing Gay Porn?”
* “John Paulus Talks Clay Aiken”
* “Johnny Hazzard’s Kitchen Gets Hot”
* “New Release Desk: Bisex Blue Movie ‘Shifting Gears’”
* “Beauty Shot: Italian Model Alex Marte”
* “Lukas Ridgeston Shakes His Moneymaker”
* “Maleflixxx Plans 7-Week ‘Sex Hiker’ Tease”
* “Financial Woes Hit Gay Adult“
