Bodybuilding fitness model Rob Sager who performed under Brett Mycles in gay videos and real name Richard passed away suddenly yesterday from heart failure. The 30 year old star was last seen this past weekend in L.A. in great spirits though one person who met him a last month noted his heart skipping beats and Mycles was aware his weak heart condition. Mycles starred in numerous gay films for JetSetMen between 2000-2002 and later denied his gay past when he went onto fitness modeling.

The spotlight inevitably shines on the lives of gay pornstars, including their love life, and here is some news on gay pornstar love.

Damon Phoenix is dating… get this! A drag diva! Or is she a tranny? I think she’s just a draggie. Yup. They’re living together. And very happy! Craziest thing of all? I think it could last for a while! They’ve got staying power. I think the bitch is adorable and they make a cute couple!

Damon Phoenix with new beau/belle

A very sober Erik Rhodes introduced us all to his new boyfriend of four months now as his date. His boyfriend has no interest in getting involved in front of the camera and they seem very much in love.

Erik Rhodes and new boyfriend

Danny Roddick and Alex Chandler have split again after their previous attempt and this time it’s for real. They gave it one last shot a few months back, but the relationship has just played itself out and they are both moving on.

Jason Ridge, who leads a tumultuous life in the dating department, said he’s dating Caleb Carter now and that he fucked him earlier in the day. There’s a couple that will last a few weeks and we can only hope one of MTV’s many shows that Caleb has been on will be there to capture it.

Related Links:
Alex Chandler blog
Alex Chandler MySpace
Danny Roddick MySpace
Erik Rhodes MySpace
Jason Ridge.com
Jason Ridge blog

The 2007 GayVN at Castro Theatre hosted by Kathy Griffin brought together a bunch of hot gay pornstars.

Hot House Exclusives C.J. Knight and Francesco D’Macho

Titan Exclusive Damien Crosse with boyfriend Angelo surround Franceso D’Macho

Francesco D’Macho with boyfriend François Sagat

Francesco D’Macho lounging with boyfriend François Sagat

Franceso D’Macho with Falcon exclusive Erik Rhodes

See More at Francesco D’Macho 2007 GayVN Awards blog

Martin Mazza with Steve Cruz

Steve Cruz with Titan Exclusive Dean Flynn

Colby Taylor and Steven Cruz

See more pictures are Steve Cruz blog GayVN After Party Pics

François Sagat Holding The Best Performer Of the Year

François Sagat in glasses holding the award

More pictures at Francois Sagat blog I Won Best Performer of the Year

Damon Phoenix with new girlfriend/boyfriend

Boyfriends Benjamin Bradley and Ethan Reynolds
More 2007 GayVN links:
GayVN
Fleshbot Gay GayVN Awards Party Pics
Gay Porn Blog Gay Porn Awards: Lucas Sweeps GayVNs
Gay Sex Blog: Mason Wyler’s Ass Takes It
Lavender Lounge blog La Dolce Vita Wins Big At GayVN Awards
Tim and Roma blog AmaZN GayVN

Hub of all that’s hot

San Francisco — surprise! — has surpassed Los Angeles as the capital of the gay adult entertainment industry
Wyatt Buchanan, Chronicle Staff Writer

Friday, February 23, 2007

To the list of accolades that make San Francisco the gayest city around, you can add this: world headquarters of the gay adult entertainment industry.

Over the past few years the core of that industry has shifted from Los Angeles to San Francisco, and nearly every leading studio that makes gay adult content now is centered in the city, mainly in the South of Market and lower Potrero Hill neighborhoods.

The content of the industry — that is, the movies themselves — has also shifted, from DVDs and videotapes to the Internet, and to the city at the forefront of that medium. If you download gay porn from the Web, there is a good chance that the images are coming from servers sitting in the shadows of AT&T Park.

This weekend, both transitions will be acknowledged as the GAYVN Awards — the Oscars of the genre — take place at the Castro Theatre on Saturday night and bring the entire industry, including its stars, to the city.

The event, where awards in 38 categories will be presented, is for the first time open to the public, as all eight previous ceremonies were industry-only affairs in Los Angeles nightclubs.

Buttressing that main event is a first-ever industry conference at the W Hotel and a string of parties, one of which — Colt Studio’s 40th anniversary party — will take place across the street from City Hall tonight.

Observers say these events are major changes in the multimillion-dollar industry.

“It certainly shows an acceptance of gay sexuality, but it also shows an increasing acceptance of pornography as a form of popular culture,” said Jeffrey Escoffier, a New York writer who lived in San Francisco for 15 years and is writing a history of the industry to be published next spring.

He traces the modern roots of the films to New York in the early 1970s, where pornographic movies showed in theaters in the city. The Athletic Model Guild had started in the East Bay prior to that, though it produced only photographs and still images. (Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was photographed by the guild in 1975, during his body building days. He wore leopard-print briefs.) About the same time, Charles M. Holmes started the Falcon studio — and idealized the blond California surfer — in San Francisco and others started studios in Los Angeles. Colt founder Jim French first took his erotic male pictures in New York before moving the operation to Los Angeles in the late 1970s.

As the years passed and the heterosexual adult industry blossomed in Southern California, many studios there created gay-themed products as well.

The industry soon underwent two major changes: The first was the introduction of home video, which expanded the market beyond only men in urban cities with porn movie theaters. With VCRs, anyone, anywhere, could order films through the mail and enjoy them in private.

The arrival of the era of AIDS in the early ’80s affected a second sea change in the industry. The look of men in the films — known in the industry as “models” — switched from an average aesthetic to that of extremely well-groomed, tanned and toned men, a representation of “health” in the midst of HIV and AIDS. However, the studios did not begin using condoms in their productions till the late 1980s and early 1990s, and many men involved in the early days of the industry, including models and directors, died because of the disease.

Los Angeles remained the center of the gay and straight industry for a while, but in the late 1990s and early 2000s several Falcon directors started their own studios in the Bay Area.

Those studios — Titan, Raging Stallion, Hot House — remained in San Francisco and soon became leaders in the industry. In 2003, former Falcon director John Rutherford and his partner Tom Settle bought Colt, which had been struggling, and moved it to San Francisco, where it once again became successful.

“Now that a critical mass of companies can be found here in San Francisco, more outside companies find it beneficial to relocate here to take advantage of the porn-friendly climate,” said Chris Ward, co-founder and president of Raging Stallion.

It is unclear how big a business gay porn actually is in the city. None of the studio heads would share their revenues, but they did estimate that the gay market was 5 percent to 10 percent of the overall adult market, which is commonly valued between $5 billion to $8 billion. That larger number is unverifiable as well, but if true it could mean the total industry could easily be worth $100 million in the city.

Studio owners say there are several advantages of being located in San Francisco — chiefly the city’s liberal attitudes toward sex and sexuality and, of course, its large gay population.

Rutherford said making gay porn in Los Angeles wasn’t always easy and that the police would occasionally disrupt shoots.

“For people who live in San Francisco, our videos play a larger part in their life, which makes it a community standard,” Rutherford said.

The city, and the Bay Area, also has innovative people who have created many of the advances on the Internet, the next frontier and the third major change for the adult industry. As with VCRs and home viewing in the decades before, the Web is fundamentally changing how people watch porn.

One San Francisco company startup opened in the 1990s to create ways for online gamers to connect through video streaming; now it has become the major conduit for gay adult content on the Web.

“We were like a lot of startups in the mid-’90s. We were a young group of entrepreneurs open to pretty much anything,” said Tim Valente, president of NakedSword.com.

“All of us would sit around working late and talk about all sorts of things. The topic came up of streaming and what you could do with it,” said Valente, who suggested they consider gay adult video. “We were in San Francisco, I’m a gay guy, I said I’d go knock on doors, and that’s pretty much how it started.”

Valente started a subsidiary of the gaming site, calling it NakedSword.com, in 2000 and the Web site “went crazy” with hits. The site now partners with all of the major studios and streams about 90 percent of gay adult content available, Valente said. The company is a major sponsor of this weekend’s events.

The Internet helps the studios, too, as they stream their own video and also sell products from their Web sites.

Revenue for Falcon Studios last year was split in half between online and wholesale sales, says Todd Montgomery, who bought the studio in 2004. This year, online money will surpass wholesale revenue for the first time, accounting for 60 percent of sales, he said.

And the Internet boom has also created an amateur porn industry of producers who can cheaply make high-quality videos and post them on the Web. Many of these producers are pushing the aesthetic of the male pornographic model away from the Uber-polished back to a more natural look. They are also producing porn in individual scenes rather than full films with through story lines, trends major studios are also following.

Some amateur producers are also pushing the line on condom use, too, creating what are known as “bareback” videos, in which condoms are not used.

Such films, produced exclusively by smaller studios, are highly controversial within the industry because of the risk of contracting HIV. Some call bareback movies “snuff films.” The Gay Video News Magazine Awards ceremony bans such films from even being nominated, though they are reviewed in the organization’s magazine.

Major studios used to refuse to hire models who had appeared in bareback films, though that restriction has relaxed. Still, none of the majors condone the production of bareback films.

A smaller San Francisco studio called Treasure Island Media specializes in bareback films, however, and “people have definitely responded to it, and we have a pretty solid fan base,” said Randy Johnson, a producer for the studio who also screens potential models for films. As for the threat of HIV, Johnson said the studio matches people of the same HIV-status and “nobody is being put at risk.”

Johnson called the industry and award ban “hypocritical” because “there are no degrees; condom or no condom, it is all pornography.”

The images and practices the studios do show sometimes concern people like John Karr, who has for 30 years reviewed gay adult movies for the Bay Area Reporter, the Castro neighborhood paper.

Karr said he wonders about the impact of porn on the sex lives of average gay men, whether it leads them into excessive fringe and fetish practices. Two movies up for awards this weekend — “Justice” and “Folsom Filth” — were both produced by San Francisco studios and portray hardcore and violent sexual acts.

“The very profusion of the gay sex film industry has led to super-performers being developed that do not represent the everyday person and the everyday person thinks that’s how he should be acting — and the circle continues,” Karr said, adding, “This is something to view in wonderment, instead of condemnation.”

Source: SFGate

Titan Media, parent company of gay adult brands TitanMen, TitanMen Fresh, MSR Video and ManPlay, is pleased to announce that it has extended the exclusivity contracts with its signature stars Alex Baresi, Damien Crosse, François Sagat and Diesel Washington. All four TitanMen exclusive models have extended their contracts with Titan Media through 2008.

“We are all very proud that Alex, Damien, François and Diesel have chosen to extend their exclusivity contract with us here at TitanMen,” says Keith Webb, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Titan Media. “These four men represent some of the most iconic faces and bodies of the TitanMen brand and we are looking forward to an exciting year ahead with them all.”

Alex Baresi made his TitanMen debut in the leather/fetish blockbuster Folsom Filth in fall 2006. The ruggedly handsome and hirsute 27–year old Italian stands 6’1” and weighs in at a beefy 230 lbs. Baresi followed Folsom Filth with the Bruce Cam holiday epic Breathless and will next be seen in another leather/fetish film set to release at the International Mr. Leather convention in May. Baresi is the featured model, along with Damien Crosse, on the cover of the February 2007 issue of GAYVN magazine.

Damien Crosse has quickly grown to become one of the most loved and recognized faces in the gay adult industry. His smoldering good looks and beautifully muscular body have captured the hearts of fans, both male and female! Damien made his TitanMen debut in the Brian Mills films Hitch and Folsom Filth, Bruce Cam’s Breathless and Joe Gage’s Cop Shack on 101. Crosse is nominated for “Best Newcomer” at the 2007 GAYVN awards to be held this week in San Francisco.

Arguably the world’s most recognizable gay pornstar, François Sagat has become a gay porn icon and superstar. The French native is most noted for his signature full scalp tattoo and one of the most stunning physiques in the industry. His exotic Arab and Eastern European heritage combine to create one of the world’s most beautiful men. Sagat is nominated for “Performer of the Year” at the 2007 GAYVN awards for his work in Folsom Filth and Breathless.

Diesel Washington burst onto the scene in fall 2006 with his break-out performance in the leather/fetish block buster Folsom Filth. The 6’6”, 240 lb. Brooklyn native with a take-no-prisoners attitude has quickly developed a huge fan base. Diesel can currently be seen in (and on the cover of) Joe Gage’s Crossing the Line: Cop Shack 2. His aggressive fucking style along with a 10” dick are the things of which porn legends are made! Diesel is nominated for “Best Newcomer” at the 2007 GAYVN awards to be held this week in San Francisco.

Related Links:
Alex Baresi MySpace
Damien Cross MySpace
Diesel Washington blog
Francois Sagat blog

Benjamin Bradley and Ethan Reynold’s Project BE dancing team released a new ad campaign here.

Back by popular request, fans now get their t-shirts.

Mustang is doing a really good job since their rebranding last year to bring on more rugged sex to the screen, previously dominated by Raging Stallion and Titan. Their new release Forced Entry promises four scenes of double penetration featuring some of my favourite stars, Dean Monroe and Jake Dakota.

In his first dream of the night, Luca DiCorso and Eddie Diaz are making out with one another in silhouette. The two take turns sucking on one another and exploring each other’s bodies until they are both rock hard. Luca bends over for Eddie’s thick cock and moans as he takes every inch of it.

Johnny’s dreams continue with TJ Young lounging on a blue leather sofa. He plays with his cock and beckons Chad Savage to come to him. Chad expertly sucks TJ’s rock hard cock and then tenderly kisses him. TJ pulls Chad’s cock out of his briefs and eagerly sucks him off. TJ straddles Chad’s cock and rides him until is ass is loosened up. Then he bends over to take Chad from behind.

Johnny’s dreams take him to a candy shop where Tory Mason, Emilio Sands and Jan Fischer are caressing one another. The boys take turns kissing, sucking and licking each other until all of their dicks are rock hard. Emilio is the first of the three guys to give up his ass and he winces as he takes on Tory’s cock. Jan bends Tory over a barstool next to fuck his smooth ass.

Completely turned on by his hot dreams, Johnny Hazzard begins to stroke his cock. Then, Johnny’s own dream man, Trent Atkins, appears to help get him through the restless night. Trent services Johnny’s hot cock and then lets him fuck his perfect bubble butt.

In His Dreams Trent Atkins over Johnny Hazzard

In His Dreams TJ Young invites Chad Savage

In His Dreams Jan Fischer plows Tory Mason as Emilio Sands watches.
Related Links:
Jan Fischerxxx
Johnny Hazzard
Johnny Hazzard blog
Luca DiCorso MySpace

The studios love to pair pornstars Chuck DiRocco a.k.a. Chuck Scott and Nick Piston together, it’s hard to believe such arrangements are coincidences any more - not that I have any complaints because the two are great fuckers. Their newest venture is Manplay 28 for Titan. Below are their work together so far.

1. Rough Trade by MSR 2004
DiRocco, who visually embodies the title, has an oral scene with Nick Piston
2. Plantin’ Seed 2 by Treasure Island Media

4. Hard As Wood by Raging Stallion 2005

Once the scene begins we see a familiar face–its Raging Stallion Regular Nick Piston, that streetwise punk who knows how to take a cock up his ass like a man. You last saw Nick in The Red and The Black, and he gave a great performance for us in Downright Dangerous. We love Nick at Raging Stallion and we are very pleased to present this scene–without a doubt it is the best performance of his career. His partner is Chuck DiRocco (also known as Chuck Scott–another company changed his porn name because of his bareback movie past…). Chuck is a macho man–a major piece of tattooed man-meat with a cock the size of a bloated cucumber. The oral sex is fantastic, with both guys taking load after load down their throats! And they will need all that protein to get thru the hours of fucking ahead of them!

Chuck takes Nick–there is never any doubt about who is in charge with these two–and throws him over a horse feeder out on the backside of the ranch. It becomes a perfect fuck platform for two men in heat. It is a frenzy fuck. It is passionate. It is controversial (they eventually did get the condoms on), and it will make you reconsider what is your favorite outdoor scene. The best position of this pairing is when Chuck lies down and Nick squats on his firm cock, leaning back so you, the viewer, get to see two hard cocks, one bouncing wildly as the other drives deeper and deeper with each thrusting stroke! Cum shots like you have never seen end one of the hottest pairings we have ever filmed.

5. Manplay 28 Titan 2007
In the first segment, two horny, tattooed and menacing abductors played by Nick Piston and dark-haired stud Chuck DiRocco snatch blond studpup Cody Cash off the street. Both Nick and Chuck totally look the part of rough trade, and they heat up the scene by roughly stripping Cody out of his jeans and throwing him into the back of their truck. Cody is then subjected to a round of forced face-fucking in an all-oral scene. Cody gags audibly more than once from the thickness and the force of the dicks he’s swallowing. When he comes up for air, which is fairly often, Cody has the balls to order Nick and Chuck around, which of course only makes them more intent to dominate him. “I hate you, but I love your cock,” Cody says at one point, while he’s spread across both stud’s laps, his naked ass in the air. Nick and Chuck both dump their loads on Cody’s upturned face, leaving cum streaming down his cheeks. Cody tries to escape, but he doesn’t even get his jeans pulled back up before his captors grab him and take him to a railroad track, where they tie him down and leave him, his muffled cries barely audible through the gag they have forced in his mouth.

RandyBlue stars Chris Rockway and Reese Rideout dressed up, a rarity, last week for the WeHo Awards.

Source: StarrFucker.net