May
31
Beauty Shot: Mark Dalton’s Body Beautiful
May 31, 2011 | 2 Comments
[Edits 9:00 p.m.] Beauty Shot: Jet Set Men earned Grabby Awards gongs this past weekend—Best Comedy Movie, Best Art Direction and Best Screenplay— for GETTING LEVI’S JOHNSON, their erotic spoof of hunky, hapless Levi Johnston‘s misadventures in the media. Among the cast is musclebod Mark Dalton, seen at left in a glamour still from the press kit. At right, Mr. Dalton as photo’ed last month during a bodybuilding competition (see the link below for details). What a difference a year makes, eh? Impressive muscles, but wa-aa-aay too much work for my taste. Nevertheless, Mr. Dalton should get in touch with Blue Blake if he finds himself in London this summer. And CLICK HERE for his newly launched bodybuilding website.
See also:
* “Planet Porn: Musclebod Mark Dalton”
* “Blue Blake Returns to Directing, Signs with Eurocreme“
[Left photo © Jet Set Men; right photo image source.]
May
31
Matt Sizemore Returning to Blue Movies
May 31, 2011 | 2 Comments
Over the past week, I’ve been speaking with popular skin stud Matt Sizemore, who is returning to the blue movie beat. He last appeared onscreen in 2003 in CUM CANYON for Hot Desert Knights and DOWN RIGHT DANGEROUS for Raging Stallion Studios. When he was first active on the scene, Mr. Sizemore was one of GayPornLand‘s in-demand topmen, anchoring 30-plus sexpics—not counting numerous compilations—between 2000 and 2003. I cast Mr. Sizemore in a film or two for MSR Videos and we knew each other from the social scene, so it was nice to catch up. As for why he’s mounting a comeback—pun not intended, but I’m keeping it—he began exploring the possibility once he got sober. “A main feature of the program I work to remain sober is to practice rigorous honesty, and I had to finally admit to myself that I always loved working as an escort, doing porn and traveling extensively,” he tells me. “The key for me was to be able to do these things without falling into the mine field of drugs again. So I began to seek out the advice of those in all aspects of adult entertainment, but only those who are highly successful and enjoying the benefits of a drug-free lifestyle. I realized very quickly that many of these people were also former active drug addicts—now in happy and thriving recovery—and that I could be the same.” Look for our in-depth interview later this week, in which he recalls the “enormous fallout” from electing to shoot condomless porn in ’03 and his decision to return to the sub-genre this time around. CLICK HERE for a look at his videography.
May
31
Hot Links: Post-Holiday Edition
May 31, 2011 | 2 Comments
Hot Links: Welcome to our post-Memorial Day edition of Hot Links. The big news, natch, are the recent Grabby Awards in which Kristen Bjorn Productions, Jet Set Men, Buckshot Productions and the Falcon-Raging Stallion power couple figured quite well. Oh, and GPTimes earned a gong, too. (I’ll be talking about that a lot.) Plus, I’m publishing my very first book with Bruno Gmunder; scroll down a few posts for the details. Otherwise, today’s linkage brought to you by instant-boner-inspiration Diego Sans giving the pork to Brett Swanson via Randy Blue:
See also:
* “2011 Grabby Awards: Winners List”
* “Blue Blake Returns to Directing, Signs with Eurocreme”
* “Lucas Organizing 2nd Boycott Against LGBT Center”
* “Showtime to Air GayVN Awards in July”
* “Governator Drama Snags Erotica Legend Paul Barresi”
* “Jayden Grey Moving On from Skin Biz”
* “Adult-Biz Group Kicks Off Fundraising Campaign (Adult Cares Alliance)
* “Trent Atkins Returns to Skin Biz”
* “Indie Film Fictionalizes Real-Life Porn Biz”
* “Media Analyst Examines Dustin Zito, Gay Porn and the Internet”
And you’re invited to CLICK HERE to twat with us on Twitter.
[Diego Sans, Brett Swanson © Randy Blue.]
May
31
Quotable: Just Slutty
May 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Quotable: “I was like, ‘Am I gay? Am I straight?’ And I realized, I’m just slutty. Where’s my parade?”
— Margaret Cho (b. 1968), comedian and activist.
May
30
Dept. of Self-Promotion: ‘Gay Porn Heroes’
May 30, 2011 | 5 Comments
Dept. of Self-Promotion: Happy Memorial Day to our Constant Readers in the U.S. Los Angeles is emptied out right now; there is a special, subdued energy to the city on holiday weekends. So here is a bit of fantastic news I’ve been sitting on: I’ve signed a book contract with Berlin-based publishing giant Bruno Gmunder. I’ve contributed to other books, and I edited the Adam Gay Video Directory for three years, but this will be the first hardcover with my nom de porn on the cover. It will be a photobook with text and the title is Porn Heroes. It’s an exploration of iconic imagery over 40 years of all-male adult, grouped into categories such as “The Blonds,” “The Bodybuilders,” “The European Fantasy,” “The Superhung Studs” and more, 100 men in total (winnowing down that list has been equal parts exciting and painful). It will actually be in stores later this year. So all y’all will be hearing about Porn Heroes a lot over the coming months. I’m grateful to the Gmunder folks for the opportunity. This is something I’ve wanted for a long, long time. Here’s a peek at the cover. Back to the grindstone! Got a book to finish.
May
30
2011 Grabby Awards: Winners List
May 30, 2011 | 1 Comment
[Edits 05/31/11.] Porn Awards: You may have picked up on the news that the 2011 Grabby Awards were presented Saturday, May 28, in Chicago. GPTimes actually won something, so we knocked off for the weekend. Apologies if you clicked over expecting a list of the winners. Overall, it was a very good night for the newly joined Falcon Studios and Raging Stallion Studios. It was the first awards show since the two venerable labels were merged by AEBN at the end of last year, and together they took home wins in 10 of 40-plus categories, many of which were new this year. Also earning multiple gongs were GETTING LEVI’S JOHNSON from Jet Set Men and LOTUS for Buckshot Productions. However, it was Kristen Bjorn Productions who won the marquee Best Movie category for COSTA BRAVA. The legendary director also earned Lifetime Achievement honors. And here’s a bit of porn awards trivia for you: Mr. Bjorn’s company actually won this award once before—17 years ago. CALL OF THE WILD shared top honors with several other sexpics all the way back in 1994, just the third year Grabbys were awarded, and five years before the first live awards ceremony. CLICK HERE for the complete list of this year’s winners…
May
30
Quotable: Your Erotic Identity
May 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Quotable: “Give your erotic identity the benefit of your admiration.”
— Susie Bright (b. 1958), author and activist.
May
29
Porn Star Birthdays: May 30 – June 5
May 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Aabeel, J.J. Bond, Ladislav Pekar (May 30); Jasper Collins, Brett DiMineo, Rick Gonzalez, Nick Reiner (May 31); Jeff Brooks, Kevin Dean, Nick Ford, Shawn London, Gary Malkovich, Matt Morgan (June 1); Vince Bandero, Jon Eric, Jason Leery, Chad Manning, Isaac Nadir, Ralph Rohner (June 2); Tony Alvarez, Aaron Brandt, Sloan Christian, Johnny Doom, Felipe Eller, Billy Elliott, Josh Ericson, Dylan James, Kyle Kennedy, Ryan Lexington, Scott Mann, Pepper (June 3); Alex Burbon, Ben Campezi, Josh Dobrich, Danny Lopez, Rappalo [Rapallo, Paul Rappallo, Rappolo], Zane West (June 4); Buck Angel, Andres Colmenares, John Gleason, Billy Little-Fox, Collin McRath, Dan Rider, Francois Sagat (June 5). [Have we missed a PSB? Leave a comment and let us know. Image © Dillon Buck.]
May
28
Grabby Awards Winner: Best Porn Blog
May 28, 2011 | 16 Comments
Porn Awards: Well, blow me down. I’m holding down the fort at GPTimes World Headquarters tonight, my nose to the grindstone, keeping an eye on the Twitter machine as about 50 attendees live-Tweeted the Grabby Awards in Chicago. And, lo!—all of I sudden, I’m reading Tweets that GPTimes won Best Porn Blog! Well, golly. What a kick! If I’d been at the show tonight, I absolutely would have thanked our Constant Readers for their dedication; some of you have been reading my stuff, in one form or another, since 1998. And I would have paid tribute to the late founder of Gay Chicago magazine, Ralph Paul Gernhardt (a/k/a Big Daddy Ferguson). He was my friend and industry mentor and a real mensch. Big Daddy was the first person to pick up The Adams Report by JC Adams when I was trying to self-syndicate, way back in olden times. Pictured is a quick photo Samuel Colt snapped of his awards tonight, including Performer of the Year (shared with Brent Everett). A full list of winners is forthcoming. Onward and upward!
[Image © Samuel Colt.]
May
28
2011 Grabbys-IML Weekend, Part II
May 28, 2011 | 2 Comments
Planet Porn: As noted, our boys have been carousing around Chicago for the past several days for International Mr. Leather, which continues through Monday, and the Grabby Awards, which are tonight. At left, Bel Ami beauties tour the Windy City, including a stop at the Water Tower. From left, they are Jean-Daniel Chagall, Dolph Lambert, Kris Evans and Kevin Warhol. Scroll down, or click the Planet Porn category tag in the left-hand column, for more pics of the young bucks on their working vacation around the U.S. And in the other photo, we’ve got revered kinkster Tony Buff—who recently announced he will direct the fourth “season” of GOLDEN GATE web series for NakedSword—flashing a happy grin, having trussed up the alluring Bobby Clark It’s a good thing. (“OMFG. Heaven. Thank you, Bobby Clark,” Tweeted Mr. Buff. “Well worth the wait!”) CLICK HERE to twat with us on Twitter.
[Images © Bel Ami and Tony Buff.]
May
28
2011 Grabbys-IML Weekend, Part I
May 28, 2011 | 3 Comments
Planet Porn: The Twittersphere is abuzz, naturally, with photographic evidence of our boys as they storm Chicago for International Mr. Leather and the Grabby Awards. The main hotel where the skin studs are housed, last night, was also hosting not one, but two proms! “Eighty drunk porn boys and two proms at the hotel. If you can’t get laid, you should be shot,” Tweeted Jeremy Bilding. The mind boggles. Pictured above, at the Thursday-night Hydrate nightclub event, is dragstress-DJ Chi Chi LaRue flanked by hunky Jimmy Durano and Dean Monroe, who becomes sleeker and more polished with each passing year, it seems. And about the second photo: “I woke up to this normal sex position,” musclebod Cavin Knight Tweeted this morning. The multi-taskers are newbies Brant Dickson and Preston Steel. CLICK HERE to twat with us on Twitter.
See also:
* “C1R Lubes Up Grabby Awards Kickoff Party“
[Images © Chi Chi LaRue and Cavin Knight.]
May
28
Quotable: Improbable
May 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Quotable: “One should always be a little improbable.
— Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), author and icon.
May
27
Lucas Organizing 2nd Boycott Against LGBT Center
May 27, 2011 | 10 Comments
Press Release Roundup: For the second time this spring, Michael Lucas is calling for a boycott of the LGBT Center in New York. The performer-mogul is angry the Center has apparently offered use of its space to the Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (QAIA) group. “Everyone who believes in the state of Israel, please stop any support for the Center. Please stop your financial support, please stop meeting there. Do not ally yourself with evil,” he said. By “harboring the group that stands for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel,” he notes, the Center “becomes an accomplice to the aims of a group that would directly harm” Israeli citizens, its LGBT community and Holocaust survivors. He said the Center has been “hoodwinked” by members of Siege Busters, whose planned fundraiser earlier this year at the Center was abruptly canceled as a result of public pressure led by Mr. Lucas, and whose members he says have partnered with QAIA. Offense is not taken with those who would criticize Israel or its government, but with the positioning of the country as “an apartheid society,” said Mr. Lucas. “The term is inaccurate and intentionally hate-loaded. Its use is an anti-Semitic slur.” He suggests potential donors “redistribute their generous support to other organizations who put the interests of the LGBT community above those of fringe political groups.” Mr. Lucas has denounced QAIA several times in recent years, and last month filed a cease-and-desist against the group for its apparent use of imagery from his MEN OF ISRAEL blue movie on their protest signage (see the link below). His contentious back-and-forth with the Center over the Siege Busters event cancellation occupied the gay-gossip-media blogosphere for much of February and March.
UPDATE: The Center released a statement addressing this issue. CLICK HERE to read it.
See also:
* “Lucas Files Cease-and-Desist Against Palestinian Group”
* “Lucas Responds to Criticism Over Event Cancellation“
[Image © Lucas Entertainment.]
May
27
Gus Mattox Tickling Ivories for New Cabaret Act
May 27, 2011 | 3 Comments
As we last wrote several months ago, in March, retired pornster Gus Mattox—under his birth name Tom Judson—has been touring over the past year and a half with his solo show Canned Ham, as well as serving as piano man for dragstress Varla Jean Merman‘s cabaret act (see the link below). Now he’s bringing his new cabaret act to Dixon Place in New York City at the end of June. He’ll perform The Tom Judson Show Friday and Saturday, June 24-25, as a preview for a run currently scheduled for Provincetown later in the summer. CLICK HERE for a TheaterMania summary and CLICK HERE for the Dixon Place website (scroll almost to the bottom for Mr. Mattox-Judson’s blurb).
See also:
* “Gus Mattox on Porn, Turning 50 and Jock Straps“
[Photo credit: John Skalicky.]
May
27
Francois Sagat Indie Film Playing Montreal
May 27, 2011 | 1 Comment
Erotic idol Francois Sagat made a lot of news over the past year or so for L.A. Zombie, the erotic art film he toplined for Bruce LaBruce. But he also starred in another arthouse indie in 2010 that is getting a slow rollout after playing the festival circuit. As we first wrote in August 2010, Man at Bath (Homme au Bain) is an ultra-low-budget, cross-continental romance, of sorts, written and directed by Christophe Honoré and costarring Chiara Mastroianni. It debuted in France last September and now it’s playing in Montreal at the Cinema du Parc. Unfortunately, the Montreal Gazette wasn’t impressed. “Honoré appears obsessed with showcasing Sagat’s admittedly stunning, musclebound, naked body and it is an intriguing notion to build a film around this force of nature and his destabilizing impact on everyone around him,” writes reviewer Brendan Kelly. “But Honoré doesn’t take the concept anywhere—he seems more interested in provoking with the sex scenes, complete with all kinds of full-frontal male nudity.” CLICK HERE for the full review. Our Canadian Constant Readers are invited to chime in. Mr. Sagat was also the subject of a French-TV documentary recently (see the link below).
See also:
* “Undead Francois Sagat Preying All Month on VOD”
* “Titan Teases Francois Sagat Documentary”
* “Francois Sagat Headlines ‘Man at Bath’“
May
27
Quotable: Down Where It Belongs
May 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Quotable: “The tragedy is when you’ve got sex in the head instead of down where it belongs.”
— D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930), author.
May
26
The true-crime nonfiction book about the murder of Cobra Video producer Bryan Kocis appears to have found a new home. The tome was cut loose last year from Alyson Books—part of the Here Media collection of properties—when the company was restructured and switched to only digital publishing. Cobra Killer: Gay Porn Murder and the Manhunt to Bring the Killers to Justice by Peter A. Conway and Andrew E. Stoner is now scheduled for a February 2012 publication date by Magnus Books, the nascent label founded by author and publisher Don Weise, formerly of Alyson Books. The authors “tell in full detail the twisted story of a pair of young, aspiring gay adult film producers whose quest for fame at any cost leads to the gruesome murder of the man who stands in their way,” reads the promo description. “The murder investigation leads police and prosecutors to the far reaches of the country, from Virginia to New York City, to Las Vegas, and to a nude beach in San Diego where investigators facilitate an incredible clandestine suspect surveillance… Cobra Killer takes readers into the sometimes alluring, sometimes dangerous and often surprising world of gay porn and into the deceit, schemes, and ultimate betrayals lying underneath the fantasy.” Full disclosure: As Constant Readers may recall, I was interviewed for the book. CLICK HERE for their Facebook page.
See also:
* “Crime Blotter: Book Planned About Bryan Kocis Murder” (June 2009)
May
26
RIP: Performer Robert Elephante
May 26, 2011 | 1 Comment
I’m sorry to report that performer Robert Elephante died earlier this week. The apparent COD was accidental electrocution from a downed power line in his neighborhood outside Dallas. Several newspaper accounts confirm the news. A popular name in the bear and leather communities, Mr. Elephante appeared in BEAR PLUMBING INC. for Pantheon Productions and BIG EASY BEARS for Bear Films in 2009. “We are so sorry to hear of the passing of Robert Elephante,” Bear Films posted yesterday to their Facebook fan page. “As a person, Robert is a great friend to the bear community and will truly be missed by all of us. You are in our thoughts.” Our condolences to his family, friends and fans.
[Image © Pantheon Bear.]
May
26
Planet Porn: Bel Ami Boys & Fleshjack
May 26, 2011 | 2 Comments
Planet Porn:
A quartet of Bel Ami studs are making the rounds in the U.S. this week. They landed in Austin to work with Fleshjack and now the hunks are headed to Chicago for Grabby Awards weekend. In the top photo, left to right, are Jean-Daniel Chagall, Kris Evans, Kevin Warhol and Dolph Lambert. Quite dashing, yes? Bottom-left, a snuggly Warhol, who is 5’8-ish, provides some idea of the size of Mr. Evans. And bottom-right, Messrs. Lambert and Chagall model jock straps. Make sure to click on the link below for yesterday’s Bel Ami post, including a very popular shot of Evans flexing his lickable physique in the gym wearing only a pair of briefs.
See also:
* “Bel Ami Boys in Austin“
[Images source.]
May
26
Hot Links: Almost Friday Edition
May 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Hot Links: Good morning on the eve of Grabby Awards weekend in Chicago. Some of our top stories on GPTimes remain anything to do with skin-stud-turned-MTV-star Dustin Zito. Elsewhere, the return of Trent Atkins and new identical twins continue to stir up interest. Plus, none other than Paul Barresi is tangentially connected to the Arnold Schwarzenegger baby-mama scandal. And I accidentally discover when Showtime will be airing the 2010 GayVN Awards. Click early, click often. (CLICK HERE for more of Jeremy Walker slipping the stiff one to Jay Stone.) And thanks for your patronage.
See also:
* “Showtime to Air GayVN Awards in July”
* “Governator Drama Snags Erotica Legend Paul Barresi”
* “Jayden Grey Moving On from Skin Biz”
* “Adult-Biz Group Kicks Off Fundraising Campaign (Adult Cares Alliance)
* “Trent Atkins Returns to Skin Biz”
* “Indie Film Fictionalizes Real-Life Porn Biz”
* “C1R, LaRue Snap Up Identical Russo Twins”
* “Next Door Studs Compete in Fleshjack Promo Contest”
* “Dustin Zito’s Porn Drama Boosts ‘Real Word’ Ratings”
* “Media Analyst Examines Dustin Zito, Gay Porn and the Internet”
And you’re invited to CLICK HERE to twat with us on Twitter.
[Jeremy Walker, Jay Stone © Randy Blue.]
