Hear ye all fans of gay porn and its many, many "stars": The GayVN Awards (the gay porn Oscars) are this Saturday at the Castro Theatre--with hosts Janice Dickinson, Margaret Cho and Alec Mapa--and the gay ends of town are abuzz about the flood of chiseled pecs and abs about to descend on our fair city. In addition to the awards and a series of Friday pre-parties hosted by porn studios in the Castro, there is a major afterparty (link semi-NSFW) in the Tenderloin featuring electronic duo Thunderheist and DJ Sammy Jo of the Scissor Sisters, and hosted by local web video-on-demand porn providers, NakedSword. more ›

The GayVN nominations we announced today. What are the GayVN Awards, you ask? They are the Oscars of male homosexual pornography. Up for Best Picture kudos are Ass Cruisin', Best Men Parts 1 & 2, Betrayed, Breakers, Endgame, Grind - Volume 1, Italians and Other Strangers, Paradise Found, The Porne Ultimatum, Return to Fire Island, Rio, Sex Hiker, Skin Deep, To the Last Man, and (our favorite title) Verboten 1 & 2.\ more ›

Just in time for your post holiday meltdown, The fine folks over at The Sword have conveniently packaged together a Google map (NSFW!) of public and semi-public locations that have been used as backdrops in some of your favorite homosexual pornographic films. From dingy SoMa bars to glorious Dolores Park, check out who possibly spread their seed all over the bar stool from where you order your frozen Cosmopolitans. more ›