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This year’s nominees for the Grabby Awards–which round out the ever-glamorous gay porn awards season with a ceremony/party in Chicago, two months after the GayVN Awards–have been announced!

The 2009 GayVN nominations are out, kids!  As per uje, there are about nine thousand of them!  And did we mention this year’s porn oscars are going to be QUITE A SHOW?

Of all the characters and misfit toys in the gay porn industry, Pam Dore (aka “mr. Pam”) may be the most unlikely. The easygoing Northern California girl is now one of the most sought after videographers in the gay porn industry-she’s shot for COLT, Hot House, Lucas, Studio 2000, Jet Set and, most recently, Black Scorpion. We sat down with her over a plate of French fries to discuss her life of lube.

Like a once-in-a-lifetime confluence of astronomical events, the International Mr. Leather Expo is happening in Chicago this weekend AT THE SAME TIME as the infamous Grabby Awards.  The Sword will be covering the weekend live-blog style, in association with Fleshbot.  After the jump, a refresher (in case you missed them the first time) on this year’s Grabby nominees.

The long-running Hard Choice Awards announced their results last night and reminded us that there’s more to life than the GayVNs. A lot more. Raging Stallion took home some more top prizes (Best Director for Chris Ward and Ben Leon, and Best Film, GRUNTS) but with the Grabbys in a month, and a host of smaller award shows in the meantime (including the WeHo XXX Awards, the Cybersocket Awards, the European Gay Porn Awards and the Rentboy Awards), it’s more complicated than the presidential primaries. Which got us thinking

Thanks to a few well-placed handjobs and a bottle of Kahlua, we’ve weaseled our way into Grabby headquarters and stolen the list of nominees that’s scheduled to be published tomorrow. We started to tally the studio with the most noms, the movie with the most noms and the studio with the most movies and, well, wait… what were we saying? Sorry, we totally fell asleep. It doesn’t really matter since there’s enough noms here for each studio to spin, Bush-style, an edge up on the competition. By noon tomorrow, everyone will be in the lead.

Thirty-six hours after the awards are over and we’re still feeling a bit woozy and like it’s the day after Christmas. Evidently, we’re not the only ones. While GRUNTS directors Ben Leon and Chris Ward seem to be in good spirits and Channel 1 helmer Chi Chi LaRue seems pleased with the accolades that Link: The Evolution garnered, others have less rosy feelings about the awards.

Leading the charge, Michael Lucas announced that GayVN’s inexplicable refusal to grant Gigolo a single award is a “mystery” the bottom of which he will not rest until he gets to:

Two+ hours and countless fart jokes later, the 2008 GayVNs are over. While Derek and Romaine were limited to a five-minute intro due to bad press and an industry revolt, Lady Bunny hammed it up with Laugh-In segments and Benny Hill-style humor. High-larious. GRUNTS and Link were the big winners, but before we go back to our regularly scheduled pornography, we offer this uncensored look at the highlights of the best award show we’ve seen in awhile. Award highlights:
Best Videography: Brian Mills, H20
Best Director: Chris Ward and Ben Leon, GRUNTS
Best Picture: GRUNTS, Raging Stallion
Performer of the Year: Jake Deckard
Best Sex Comedy: The Intern, Lucas Entertainment
Best All-Sex: Link: The Evolution

This may be the first year that the GayVNs best the Golden Globes in viewership, and we couldn’t be more pleased: not only has our industry’s little fete grown in recent years, the clothes are more exciting. No offense to Valentino Garavani or Domenico Dolce, but porn star fashion — with it’s reliance on mesh, mess and meth — is infinitely more exciting. We’ve got 35 days until we can bring you the new Spring Collection, so until then, here are the nominations …