Jul
27
LaBruce Pens ‘Advocate’ Op-Ed on ‘Zombie’ Ban
July 27, 2010 | 1 Comment
It’s been a busy week and a half for writer-director Bruce LaBruce and the cast of L.A. Zombie, including erotic idol Francois Sagat as its undead protagonist. As we wrote last week (see the links below), the Melbourne International Film Festival canceled a screening of the film, resulting in an avalanche of publicity that went [...]
Jul
22
Sagat’s ‘Zombie’ Aussie Fight Going Viral
July 22, 2010 | 3 Comments
The news that pornster Francois Sagat‘s indie flick L.A. Zombie was disinvited from the Melbourne International Film Festival broke just a couple of days ago and has already begun to go viral. We wrote it up on Tuesday—writer/director Bruce LaBruce saw our story and posted his mild objection to our use of the word “banned” [...]
Jul
20
Sagat’s ‘L.A. Zombie’ Dumped from Melbourne Fest
July 20, 2010 | 5 Comments
The indie flick L.A. Zombie starring pornster Francois Sagat has been turned away from the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF). Fest director Richard Moore said L.A. Zombie “could not be screened as it would be refused classification” by the local Film Classification Board. It had been scheduled for Saturday, August 7; the festival runs from [...]
Jul
15
Getting Frisky with French Porn Flicks
July 15, 2010 | 2 Comments
The rapscallions over at Frisky Fans have a post up celebrating their fave all-male porn flicks filmed in France in honor of Bastille Day (which was actually yesterday, my bad) What, only one Cadinot sexpic…? (That would be 1989′s TOUGH & TENDER.) And nothing from Citebeur, even the early Francois Sagat stuff? Anyway, the remaining [...]
Jun
28
Locarno Fest Books Francois Sagat in ‘L.A. Zombie’
June 28, 2010 | 2 Comments
The forthcoming Locarno Film Festival will screen the indie flick L.A. Zombie in competition. Constant Readers will recall the film by Bruce LaBruce toplines, per the Variety write-up, “French porn star Francois Sagat as a schizophrenic who thinks he’s a zombie, trying to bring the dead back to life by engaging in homosexual sex.” Olivier [...]
May
30
Porn Star Birthdays: May 31 – June 6
May 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment
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 [...]
Apr
26
Hot Links: Monday Blahs Edition
April 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Hot Links: Greetings, Constant Readers. As you read these words it is late afternoon in Bratislava, Slovakia —there is a nine-hour time difference from Los Angeles — and one assumes I shall be installed at my desk in the offices of Bel Ami (assuming the good humor of the Icelandic volcano god). I’ll be there [...]
Apr
22
‘Thrust’ Into Sex with Francois Sagat
April 22, 2010 | 5 Comments
New Release Desk: None other than Francois Sagat is back on the blue-movie scene. His eminently fuckable buns are plunged by Viktor Jones in THRUST from Titan Media and director Brian Mills. “A handsome hunk relaxing on the beach, a morning jogger, an unsuspecting repairman… none of them saw it coming,” intones the press squib, [...]
Apr
14
Chi Chi, Corrigan, ‘Men of Israel’ Snag TLA Gay Honors
April 14, 2010 | 6 Comments
Press Release Roundup: Winners of the first annual TLA Gay Awards have been announced and Lucas Entertainment‘s MEN OF ISRAEL won the marquee category of movie of the year, a trophy it also snagged from the Cybersocket Web Awards. “The polls are closed, the dust has settled, our chads are dangling and the results are [...]
Mar
1
Counting Up TLA Gay Awards Tally
March 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment
[Edits 03/02/10.] We’ve done a quick tally of the various individuals, studios and labels up for an inaugural TLA Gay Award (GPTimes earned a nod). We typically do not count nominations in such categories as best newcomer or performer of the year — because the nods/trophies go to an individual, not a studio — but [...]
Mar
1
Inaugural Slate of TLA Gay Nominees Announced
March 1, 2010 | 7 Comments
Mega-retailer TLAvideo.com has recently launched the genre-specific site TLAgay.com — which includes both blue movies as well as mainstream titles and other products — and announced an inaugural slate of adult-biz award nominees. The initial batch of TLA Gay Awards were determined in-house; the final winners will be decided, in part, by public vote. “Everyone [...]
Dec
31
Quotable: Francois Sagat on Fame, Masculinity
December 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment
[Happy New Year, kids. Today we'll be replaying some of our Constant Readers' favorite 'Quotables' from the past year. Cheers! This next one originally ran April 16.] *** François Sagat on being famous: “I can’t say that I don’t like it but I think it’s too much. Too much for what it is. I understand [...]
Dec
29
New Release Desk: ‘Search and Rescue’
December 29, 2009 | 3 Comments
New Release Desk: The latest from Titan Media and helmer Brian Mills — a recent XBIZ Awards nominee — is SEARCH AND RESCUE. The sexpic is toplined by superhero-handsome Dean Flynn and the inimitable François Sagat with Adam Knox, J.R. Matthews, Niko, Niko Reeves and Christopher Saint. The plot is pretty much laid out by [...]
Dec
16
2010 XBIZ Award Noms Announced
December 16, 2009 | 10 Comments
[Edits 12/18/09.] The 2010 XBIZ Awards nominations were announced tonight. In addition to numerous straight-biz categories, the adult industry trade magazine announced nominees in five gay or GLBT (and two trans) categories: They are Gay Movie of the Year, Gay Performer, Gay Director and both Gay Studio and GLBT Web Company of the Year. Studios [...]
Dec
11
Hot Links: Rainy Friday Edition
December 11, 2009 | 1 Comment
Happy Friday, kids. Thank you, as ever, for visiting and clicking on our advertisers and Twatting us. We appreciate your patronage. It’s rainy and grey and foggy (just how I like it) at Gay Porn Times world headquarters here in Southern California. It’s been an excruciatingly slow news week in GayPornLand — December is always [...]
