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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.

Ricky Sinz, Brent Corrigan and Logan McCree were the big winners tonight, leaving the Castro Theatre ceremony with multiple awards each. And to nobody’s surprise, epic snuff film To the Last Man took home the Best Picture.

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?

Forty-eight hours later we’re still unsure whether we should report some of this past weekend to the police, but one thing is for sure: the 2008 Grabbys were a rollicking good time without the pressure or the pomp of the GayVNs. Maybe it was the table service or maybe it was that it’s hard to get too worked up about not winning “Hottest Bottom.” Either way, if that’s an award show, we’ll have a double.

After the jump, some of our favorite off-stage moments.

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.

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

You ever wanted to get so close you could practically feel Jake Deckard slap your ass or think you could reach out and touch the hair on Roman Ragazzi‘s stomach just before he comes?  Well that day is almost here, pervs.  Raging Stallion is rolling out the first gay title on the Blu-Ray format, the multiple-GayVN-nominated Grunts, with a street date of March 31.  Because of the high costs currently associated with production for the format, it is not likely that too many more Blu-Ray discs will be rolling out in the future, but for all those early adopters this 22-man, 40-scene epic should serve as a great big taste of what the future has to offer.

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 …