The Sword’s Year In Pictures
Here are some noteworthy and important images from 2009, a year I mostly remember.
Here are some noteworthy and important images from 2009, a year I mostly remember.
Seth Apper — gay sex worker as “Scott Adler,” porn star groupie, Bruce Vilanch’s assistant and WeHo bar fixture — was arrested last month for dealing cocaine. His close friend, the gay porn agent Jason Curious, has a message for Seth’s haters.
Generations of men’s men have come to California’s Sierras looking to strike gold, and Mustang’s Lief Gobo and Steve Cruz are no different. Fortunately, the Blue Movie directors aren’t afraid of a little mud. Their latest venture, Dirty!, takes hot rednecks into Gold Country for some Airstream action.
While everyone else was passed out on GHB, The Sword dutifully recorded every grunt and groan of the 2009 Grabby Awards this past weekend in Chicago.
The Sword is in Chicago for The Grabbys and the International Mr. Leather competition, but we aren’t leaving you behind. In fact, we’re hoping you’ll come rescue us.
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!
Southern Decadence may have been cut short, but New Orleans’ gay bounce music is still going strong. The local hip-hop variant has been increasingly dominated by a squad of trannies, sissy boys and out gay men who, far from segregating themselves in a gay ghetto, have become integral to the promotion in the actual ghetto.
We’re confused as to what day it is, and where this inflatable sheep came from, but the 2008 Grabby Awards are over and all for the better. We’re not that young anymore and the penicillin isn’t as effective as it used to be. So while we sober up and try to find our underwear, here’s a quick look at the winners of the 2008 Grabbys.
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.
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.
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 …