Not Again! Cybersocket’s “Gay Porn Golden Boys” List Doesn’t Include Single Man Of Color

They took a lot of heat when they published their “40 Amazing Porn Stars” list back in 2010, which didn’t include one single African-American gay porn star. Now, the magazine that I’m not sure anyone has actually read since 2007 is back again with another list of gay porn stars who all happen to be very, very white.

Cybersocket’s “21 Gay Porn Golden Boys” list could have easily been “31 Gay Porn Golden Boys” and included Tyson Tyler, Austin Wilde, Colin Black, Sean Xavier, Race Cooper, Hot Rod, Lawson Kane, JP Richards, Ace Rockwood, and even Austin Merrick, but sorry, no blacks allowed:

Today’s gay porn industry is highly competitive. Even the most flawless hunks often face stiff competition, and simply getting your foot in the door at a major studio doesn’t guarantee that you will become the next “It” boy. Porn studios can work to promote specific performers, but ultimately it’s the consumers who will decide which hunks get to be on top. This month we’ll check out some of the leading stars at a variety of popular porn studios and websites.

I’m not saying Cyberocket is racist, but if they can’t learn from their past mistakes, they probably aren’t very bright.

Here is Cybersocket’s “Golden Boys” list, which doesn’t include a single African-American gay porn star. Also, a couple of the performers on the list haven’t worked in years:

Shawn Wolfe
Jake Bass
Tate Ryder
Jimmy Durano
Corbin Fisher’s Zeb
Kris Evans
Billy Rubens
Jimmy Fanz
Tommy Defendi
Jessie Montgomery
Kris Jamieson
Jonathan Agassi
Woody Fox
Christian Wilde
Jordan Levine
Dominic Pacifico
Colby Keller
Conner Habib
Dean Monroe
Paul Wagner
Treasure Island’s DJ

 

58 thoughts on “Not Again! Cybersocket’s “Gay Porn Golden Boys” List Doesn’t Include Single Man Of Color”

  1. I don’t think people are racist just because they are not attracted to other races. What they are, is sexually unsophisticated. It’s like my cousin who only eats chicken nuggets for dinner because that’s all he grew up with. He has a very limited palette, and will not try new foods. Sex is 90% mental, and i think anyone with an open minded can allow themselves to be stimulated romantically and sexually, in many different ways. But if you’re closed minded, then the only person missing out is you, in matters of sex AND in matters of romance. Your soul mate may be out there, but not in the package you may have expected.

  2. Maybe Diesel Washington should wear a hoodie and carry a pack of Skittles and ice tea onto the set next time and see how people react?! Maybe even droop his pants a little bit just for fun. If you look like a thug, people are gonna treat you like one and act accordingly.

    He can bitch and moan all he wants about the lack of black “actors”, but the truth is the majority of porn BUYERS are white males who want to see OTHER white males having sex. Not downlow ghetto gang bangers trying to get their next fix or pay their baby-mommas money they owe.

    It’s a statistical fact that white people have more disposal income and can actually PAY for the porn they consume. Minority consumers simply don’t have the extra money NOR want to pay for it.

    Supply and demand. It’s not racist. It’s just the simple economic facts.

    If black actors were profitable, Chi Chi La Rue would have a stable of them already and be a millionaire.

    1. Yeah right, and I suppose those same supply-and-demand forces made ChiChi LaRue make a big black dildo non-racistedly named ‘The Thug.’ Oh but wait, I thought white porn consumers didn’t want black anything. Hmmm…now to square this? I don’t know but I’m sure you’ll come up with more rationalizations and justifications for bigotry.

      BMV and Merecedes using Jewish slave labor to accommodate market forces was not an excuse for anti-Semitism, Southern restaurants haning ‘whites only’ signs on their doors was did not make Jim Crow okay, and the (alleged) racism of white porn consumers is not an excuse for gay racism and segregation. Nice try though.

  3. Gay porn is just a reflection of the greater gay community so it’s no surprise that the list contains no black porn actors, but it’s not just blacks it’s latinos, asians, any race with a brown complexion. What the gay porn industry doesn’t get is the first studio to produce porn with blacks & latinos in it that aren’t being portrayed as thugs that studio will make major bank. We want to look at and by porn like everyone else the reason we don’t is because of the single minded image of us as thugs is the only image white studios want to produce. The gay community needs to accept the fact it’s as racist as the rest of America and doesn’t want to change.

  4. LoveRimmingAss

    I will tell you, that when I first got involved with men I wanted blond haired/blue-eyed, and that was IT! Then I had sex with a HOT Latino man…then years later, a hot black man….then a hot Asian man. I don’t give a SHIT about anything (age/race/religion/political views) as long as I am physically attracted to a man. And I don’t understand how not wanting to have sex with someone of color makes them racist. How many black men don’t want to have sex with/date other blacks? What does that make them? And as far as the porn thing goes, I find interracial porn to be some the the hottest, most exciting porn ever.

  5. ToothlessTweeter

    Where’s Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson when you need them?! I guess we’re all racist because we actually prefer porn performers who have talent and aren’t ghetto gays. The industry is merely giving the market what they want. Despite what Diesel Washington says, there should be NO affirmative action in porn. Corbin Fisher had a black guy once. It was a disaster and they lost tons of members! If we wanted a taste of chocolate, we’ll go order an ice cream cone.

    1. LOL!!!! Talent?!?!?! If lying there passionlessly and taking cock with an empty expression or shooting your dick up with some chemical to keep it hard is considered talent, then you would be right. Please don’t refer to porn stars as talented unless you yourself are willing to have your sanity seriously questioned.

    2. “It was a disaster and they lost tons of members!”

      Just because you are online doesn’t mean lying is required. Unless you work with CF, I doubt you know anything about the site’s subscriber records.

  6. It’s not only the producers of porn pandering to the mostly white consumers, it’s often the performers themselves. Marc Dylan, the go to pig bottom of porn over the last few years has unequiviquivicolly stated he refuses to do a scene with an African American man because they aren’t attractive. Racism runs very deep in gay porn

      1. So sorry I don’t have a specific link. It may be here on QMN, he’s made it very clear that under no circumstances would he engage in sex with an African American for a scene, escorting, or otherwise because he finds no African Americans sexually attractive. Just ask him. He’s very upfront about it.

      2. Those comments were on queermenow. I now avoid anything he’s in because now every time I see him, he’s an instant wood killer. Truthfully, the bareback thing kinda turned me off to him too. I don’t know why these guys think that somebody gives a fuck about their “philosophy” or who they fuck in their personal lives, but as usual whether they are gay for pay telling us how they loooooove pussy, or whether its this jack-ass opening his mouth to ruin the fantasy again by saying stuff about fucking black guys and how he doesn’t need the money and he’s not enslaved, blah, blah, blah. So in his mind he’d have to be “enslaved” in order to fuck a black dude?

      1. I would think yes you are. You’re gay and attracted to men, men’s bodies, cock, and ass. We’re all genetically the same. I do not understand Americans’ aversion to black skin. Like Marc Dylan being too repulsed by a black man to have sex with him. American society is in such disarray. And I’ve traveled the world and have never witnessed such racism as in the USA

      2. IMHO you’re not racist because you don’t find black men sexually attractive, you would be if you said that all black men were unattractive period – sexual or what have you. Me and my room mates talk about this all the time. I think it’s fine to say “I think that there are black men that are really handsome but also say blonde hair and green eyes turn me out”. Now, if you come across a black man with blonde hair and green eyes – Robert Richard (stay away cause he is mine) and you decide that he has the things you want but you walk away because he is black then you should probably think about why because there is definitely something deeper going on.

        I think that white men are very handsome and there are some that I wish I could dick down right now – Bruce Venture, Chris Strokes, JMac, Cliff Jensen, and Sebastian Young to name a few. TBH, I haven’t seen a man from any race that doesn’t catch my attention, but I guess I’m the minority on that – in more ways than one (lol!). I am disappointed to hear about Marc Dylan though, but oh well, that is a fantasy out of the window. I wish that his taste were more than that but that is his limitation.

  7. When will people stop hiding behind it all and just speak the truth. Most people generally date and are attracted to the failure. Most porno consumers are white and most prefer their performers to look a certain way–and black men do not have this pitcular look that sales. Some will simply tell you they are not attracted. In fact that is what the majority tells you when it comes to sales. Stop with the BS and move forward this is nothing new its seen and spoken of in practically every industry that has visual aid.

  8. About 2 weeks ago (or thereabouts) I did a list of the Top 50 Black Porn Stars. A portion of the list is here (not sure if we can put site addresses but here goes):

    http://mecchocolat.com/post/55719629160/top-50-black-gay-porn-stars-guys-41-50-it-took

    I had to break the list down into 5 postings. We (5 of us) sat down over the span of about a week to come up with a list of as many black porn stars as possible and then began the process of stripping it down to 50.

    The only two we hesitated over were Trey Turner and Austin Wilde. Trey has done porn scenes for black studios and studios identify him as black. Whereas Austin Wilde doesn’t identify himself as black and nor do the porn studios that used him (before he created Guys In Sweatpants). So we ultimately kept Trey and removed Austin.

      1. How many of them are wearing hoodies? Maybe if they could get paid in Arizona ice tea and skittles there would be more performers. No studio is going to pay top dollar for under-classed down-low thugs, gang bangers and rapper wannabees. The customers DON’T want to see cocky uppity homies speaking ebonics and who can’t pull their pants up. Maybe Bill Cosby was right?!

        1. Wow so many of them r hot I guess that fact passed u by..and how many racially enciting cliches can u put into one post?

  9. I seriously have never heard of at least 1/3 of that list. And clearly Race Cooper and Austin Wilde deserve to be on that list, as they are amazing performers. And who the fuck is Zeb from Corbin Fisher? How the hell can you put him in there and not Aiden from CF?

  10. ToothlessTweeter

    No one wants to see those nasty deformed black cocks with little curly nappy pubes. Plus they don’t wash properly and smell like old downlow cheese. Don’t make me puke!

    1. dreamkidd222@hotmail.com

      Toothless sound like u’ve been on your hind legs sniffing quite a few BLACK Peckers..LoL

  11. Mainstream is somewhat perspective. There are some big name black gay porn stars but they often don’t work outside black porn, very similar to the way white performers usually don’t work outside white porn. If you aren’t interested in black porn then you won’t know them.

  12. And by the way, I dont think Zach was race-baiting. I think he’s just one of those few guys who genuinely wants to see more Black men in mainstream porn, and he’s perplexed as to why they are not included.

  13. Why can’t people just realize and accept the fact that if the money and audience was in black porn performers – There would be the equivalent number of Caucasian porn performers out of work as there are African American and other nationalities as well. This really isn’t rocket science people. This is about selling sex – not about personal equality.

    It isn’t the porn company’s deliberate discrimination against anyone. It’s a reflection of what MOST people want to see and what MOST people are willing to pay to see.

    If I’m a cereal maker – making coco-puffs and the market mainly wants to buy Rice Krispies – I as a business have three choices. 1) Make Rice Krispies, or 2) Go out of business, or 3) survive and not prosper for as long as possible to make a Civil Rights statement about what people choose to put in their mouth and body. And good luck with #3.

    You can spin this notion about people of color not being in porn all you want to – to make porn studios look like haters and bigots – but in reality – this is just another inflammatory topical post which should have seen its day long-ago.

    1. You’re correct, the industry is just giving the people what they want. And the average Caucasian consumer of porn does not want to see versatile, well assimilated Black men. They wanna see thugs with 10 inchers abusing White bottoms (which is niche porn, not mainstream). It feeds into their fantasy that Black people are dangerous sexual predators, and therefore only desirable when you are in the mood to watch dangerous, abusive porn.

    2. Your statement is very true from a purely economic view, and porn, by no means, is the best platform for Civil Rights and equality thought leadership. Nevertheless, people who are dismissive of the lack of representation of men of color and always raise the point that this is what the audience wants does not take into account the nominative component of economics (nominative components being the ramifications of economic fairness and the psyche of the excluded groups or underserved markets). To say “it is what it is” clearly gives the message of a lack of creativity by porn producers and an unwillingness to even think outside of the box. To producers, I say try harder; look at the results that Tyler Perry has achieved outside of mainstream Hollywood with niche marketing. He makes a product that reaches an underserved market (middle class black America with stories outside of the hood, albeit, some may argue that his films are derivative, but that’s an argument for another time). He has done so well that he has helped create a vibrant film industry in the ATL. Can you imagine a Sean Cody, ChaosMen, or, dare I say, Corbin Fisher bringing in strong muscular and athletic black models more than once a year to interact with their stable of “All American” (oxy-moronic statement at its best)models.

      Clutch the pearls! We can’t have our gilded Mid-western boys interacting with “the Help.” It is indeed still a problem not only in porn but mainstream media as well. And, no, it is not inflammatory but very topical in the 21st century. Getting off my soap box at the corner of Lennox and 125th Street :)

    3. The claim that rank supply and demand alone dictate the choices that these companies make is not terribly persuasive. There is a fair bit of anecdotal evidence to suggest that companies, even when confronted with the reality of a demand for diversity, will override their profit making self-interest in pursuit of a personal, narrow/exclusive vision. Take for instance the recent comments made by Abercrombie and Fitch CEO Mike Jeffries. Mr. Jeffries is a rational man that realizes that if he made his clothing in larger sizes he would see profoundly greater returns, but he has a vision that does not include the overweight, and frankly very many ethnic people.

      Remember the controversy surrounding Hallmark last year during Mother’s Day? Their mother’s day commercial showcased sensitive and loving “Moms” imploring that you tell them how, as your Mom, they have impacted your life. Several women were taken aback by the fact that there were no women of color included in the commercial – African-American, Afro-Latino, Asian, Native American, Arab etc. Yet, Hallmark acknowledged later, after the largely unreported but seemingly effective letter writing campaign, that they did derive a substantial amount of their profits from ethnic consumers – reference their Mahogany line.

      There are other examples of businesses that participate in this sort of self-sabotage but the point of this response is not to discuss them all, rather it is to point out that the lack of diversity in the industry is not merely the function of market forces alone. If that were the case Austin Wilde would not have been made an exclusive with NDS, Race Cooper would sadly be out of work, and Boomer Banks would not be an exclusive for Falcon etc. There is a demand for men of color in porn and we see companies like Michael Lucas’ thriving because of and in spite of his use of a more diverse pallet in his casting selections (please do not fire on me for speaking his name, I am just using him as an example). I am not sure why we shy away from topics like these, they are worth discussing even if it will not have a practical effect.

      1. I see someone else paid attention in Marketing class. Very good examples and insight. It does not come down to just the clichéd and tired excuse: “that’s what the audience wants.” If that were always the case, we would not have half the products we use in our daily lives. Markets are irrational; how would they know what they like if they are not presented with new choices at least once. It’s not like these studios have extensive market research to refute why that don’t even attempt to add some more diversity. And no, I’m not talking about just those blogs with a small number of very loud contributors who believe they are arbiters of all that is good in porn and may not even be paying members to sites they critique(see the Devil Wears Prada for examples of their critiques).

        As far as mainstream sites, Michael Lucas (even though many blog commenters hate him)and Randy Blue seamlessly add men of color to their rotation without much fanfare (see the recent three way at RB; Nice!). I am a member of Sean Cody, and I like sites that have that mainstream vibe. I’ve been hoping beyond hope for the return of “Landon.” IMO, he is an excellent performer with a tight body and charming personality that can put down. I would love to see him or someone like him interact with one of the top shelf performers like Abe, Daniel, or Brandon.

        And I definitely agree with you that we should be able to dialogue without resorting to name-calling and belligerence.

  14. dreamkidd222@hotmail.com

    Wish i knew who most of the people on that list are..guess i don’t know cause i don’t care!
    Ps…i hope men of color would prefer to be on a more relevant list like the Fortune 500 most rich or successful :-)

  15. When I read the headline before the story first name that came to mind was Race Cooper. I’m glad you listed a bunch of names over to the side Zach because they obviously could not come up with one.

  16. I think the lack of diversity in the industry as a whole is more of a concern than this list. They did ignore several men but so do all of the major studios that are routinely featured on this blog. If you want to talk about sexual racism in the industry, start with the studios and the consumers.

  17. I dont think the list set out to be racist. They don’t intentionally exclude Black porn stars. There really arent very many ‘mainstream’ Black performers (i’m talking about guys who are on multiple sites, and are well recognized and branded. And I am discounting Austin Wilde (hes mulatto or something). I’m talking about 100% Black men.
    Black men in porn are unfortunately relegated to specialty sites (that provide mostly Black content) or stereotypical scenes (nelly White bottom wants to be raped by BBC). Rarely do I see interracial porn where both men are versatile, and the race aspect is not emphasized. The thug image has to go. I enjoy Black performers that are not stereotypes.

    1. “And I am discounting Austin Wilde (hes mulatto or something). I’m talking about 100% Black men.”

      WTF!! WTF? What is a ‘100 % Black man”? And did you just call somebody mulatto? Sweet Jesus, dude. At least join the late 20th century.

        1. I’m from New York, born and raised here, and I’ve never heard a intelligent person use that term. It’s probably different in the racist gay white community tho.

        2. I’m from NYC, too (well, for 16+ years, anyway). I pretty much only date men of color. I have never heard “mulatto” used, except for this Dominican guy I know who has a barbershop called l’Mulatto because that’s his nickname.

          The word “Blatino” is certainly not uncommon here, though.

      1. Kayne's Penchant

        There are plenty of 100% BLACK men (who have zero issue describing themselves that way) and you are just another dummy jumping on the racist-witch-hunt bandwagon. Congrats on your silly alarmist tendencies (now go take a prozac and chill the fuck out).

        1. The fact that they do call themselves mulatto and they are “100%” black speaks to their ignorance and not to the appropriateness of the use of the word. No one is out on “a race witch hunt” when they correct ignorance – wrong is wrong in any context – race or otherwise.

        2. And those “100% black men” are as dumb, clueless, and racist as you, According to your logic, the following people are not 100 percent black: Frederick Douglass, WEB DuBois, Walter White, Thurgood Marshall, and Malcolm X.

          Now go read a book or something.

          1. Don’t forget about the Blasians. Let’s hope they didn’t get the small end of the ugly stick….literally.

    2. Austin Wilde is no less black than the President of the United States of America, who views himself as a black man. What racist century do you live in? No intelligent person uses the term mulatto. And what exactly is 100% black man? We’re all mixed. Even the blackest of the black.

      1. Does Austin W. even hang out with black guys, plus he’s light skinned which is none threatening to most white folks, trust me if he was a few shades darker he’d be on the sidelines….

    3. I didn’t realize we were now living in pre-End-of-Apartheid South Africa where folks are categorized by percentages of Blackness.

      “100% Black men”? Who are you to decide what percentage of Black makes someone authentically Black?

      I was born and raised in Mississippi and have lived in NYC since the mid 1980s and let me tell you I have heard every kind of fucked up racist bullshit from the mouths of White folks and Black folks and many other kinds of folks and this really does take the cake because YOU (as a gay man) should know better.

      What next, will Race Cooper be deemed not Black enough because he’s Canadian?

      I thought that kind of shallow thinking went out with the race codes, Jim Crow laws and the phrase “good hair”.

      No one outside of the South uses “mulatto” unless they want to sound like some backwoods race-baiter or they want to get slapped. Do you even know the history of that horrible word? And if you’re gonna try to tear someone down for their DNA, at least be more specific, why not Quadroon or Octoroon (just to make sure you cover all your race-baiting bases). If you’re gonna talk in percentages, at least know what percentages you’re flapping your lips about.

      I really can’t believe someone gay would not be ashamed to write something so backwards and hateful where other folks could actually see it about a person’s racial authenticity, in 2013, when we know a LOT more about biology, genetics, anatomy, etc.

      Too ignorant to be allowed. Seriously.

    1. No, Zach, don’t forget: the racial stratification of the gay community is a big deal and getting bigger now that gays have set themselves up as defenders of equality. Yeah right. When I can flip through a gay magazine and not see one non-white model, when 99% of the go-go boys, bartenders, Andrew Christian models, and “mainstream” porn stars all look the same — of course that’s what people want. That’s what people have been conditioned to want due to seeing the same thing all the time. Gay porn had an excuse in 1983, but it’s 2013 now.

      Is it racist? I think it’s a function of conditioned and that guys like Zach need to keep pushing not only gay porn but the gay media and gay bars to diversify and increase exposure. But I will say it’s an American thing, and that points to racism. My hot black friend is hardly ever hit on by a goodlooking white guys when we go out in L.A. — lo and behold, we traveled to London and the rest of Europe and he’s swarmed by smoking hot dudes of all races. He was stunned. I was happy for him but also sad, because I’ve always thought he was a stunner. What, did he suddenly get attractive on the flight over? Or are Americans just that fucked up? Duh.

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