What's happening to gay porn ?

They took the idols and smashed them, the Fairbankses, the Gilberts, the Valentinos, the Kellers, the Defendis! And who've we got now? Some nobodies!

Also Rafael Alencar and Rafael Carreras, Dato Foland

age is a wicked mistress, man...

Per DL rumors, Rafael Alencar has another more lucrative job.

There's Tegan Zayne, Ashton Summers, Diego Sans, Sean Zevran, Sean Ford, Jack Hunter, etc.

A lot of them do social media like Instagram or Twitter to promote themselves. The times of studios and magazines promoting their exclusives in a big way are long gone.

An aging Rafael Carreras looks hard and yet very exciting. He can sometimes work up some real piggy energy.

Antonio Biaggi had a great run....

Ahem, let's see there also is ME!!!!

You damn bitches.

OP doesn't have anything cogent to say. He just wants to talk about porn and wrote whatever sharted out of his brain. Porn seems fine. More variety than ever before.

A link to who and what wins prizes at gay porn awards.

There's no money in it. I mean, at all.

[quote] And finally, in addition to winning the Best Performer award, Sean Zevran gave a moving speech on racial diversity in the gay adult industry.

Some of these guys go in spurts. You don’t see them for months and then they’re in a half dozen new scenes. I haven’t even seen old Dirk Caber in anything in a long time.

I like that French guy Bones.

R13 don't know if its coincidence but "caber' in Spanish means " to fit or make room for"

Well face it, the pron money is long gone, never to return. Those guys, the ones who were worth watching have had to look for other ways to make a living. Some have been successful in returning to mainstream employment, others have turned to prostitution full time, and others are wasting away in drug dens all over the place. They all been replaced with guys who will make a few videos and decide the shitty money is not worth it. The days of real porn STARS are over for good.

Its branding for prostitution. I think a few of the twinks aren't whores, yet, at least. But I wonder what their profit plan is.

A few seem to be on a personal appearance circuit. We should have a name for it, similar to the Chitlin Circuit. I dont imagine anyone pays to fuck Rizzo as an escort. He probably cobbles together money somehow.

People would rather spend their money watching joe schmo with a foot long beat off on chaturbate and donate to him than buy actual porn. It is interactive. They type joe schmo talks back. - he remembers names and drops a load for them.

"Some of these guys go in spurts"

yes they do. or they get fired.

and by the way, who dressed those "award winning" men?

Porn has moved on to cheaper productions, amateur websites like chaturbate, tube sites.

Why pay for (high end) porn content when the free stuff gets you off or you get the high end porn stuff on file sharing sites or tube sites almost as soon it's uploaded on the original, paid membership required, site?

That's why porn has shifted where porn performers get their own social media following and offer private cam sessions, special interest clips for their fans and social media followers or do the Only Fans stuff where they get their fans and followers to subscribe.

Nobody cares about Studios and their image branding anymore. It's all about users looking for guys they find hot and then doing some research where they get clips for free from that guy and if they really obsess about him maybe they pay some money to get some exclusive stuff to feel closer to their latest obsession.

There are however many many male whores who are professional and make a success of it for years. They aren't drug addicts and don't do porn -they really provide the sex service and have happy clients. They manage to make a career without porn so that must make things easier when they leave hustling.

Sean Zevran is a really handsome guy. He's stunning in a tux. He should be a mainstream model. I'm going to google that name in a few.

Apparently gay porn star Jay Alexander IS a mainstream model.

I'm surprised Getty Images covered the whore, er, adult video awards.

Zevran looks great in a tux. He should do suit sex scenes for Men At Play.

Getty buys pics. They don't "cover" events

A freelance photographer went to the event and took photos, then sold them to Getty, which sells the photos for publication.

That's called "coverage," dear.

Oh honey, there haven’t been porn stars since the eighties.

[quote]Getty buys pics. They don't "cover" events

[quote]A freelance photographer went to the event and took photos, then sold them to Getty, which sells the photos for publication.

[quote]That's called "coverage," dear.

Not in the traditional sense. Say, Zach from StraightUpGayPorn covers the event by posting an article with text and pictures attached from the event which he paid a fee for from Getty, I presume given that his site is a commercial web presence with ads.

I believe traditional coverage means mixed media (article by an author, pictures from a photographer - film footage with sound of the event). Getty uploading pictures and descrptions of the event and the pictures does not count as covering an event.

Yeah, Getty doesn't cover shit. They buy and aggregate photos from some pretty niche events as well so I'm not surprised they also have these photos. There must have been demand for them in the past or else they wouldn't have bothered.

Yes, do continue to bitch about the word "coverage," even though you're wrong.

God forbid you OCD queens ever stay on-topic.

Getty licensed the photos. That's what the watermark means, idiots.

Yep all these hoes are taking out the middle man and migrating to Only Fans where they can make quick vids from the comfort of their own home or hotel room where they are tricking. But I hear Only Fans is cracking down on these prostitution whores

Tomas Brand and Paddy O'Brien are still regularly performing; Michael Lucas (never a favorite of mine) performs occasionally for his studio still. Most of the others still perform, but there are still marquee names with strong followings: Brandon Cody, Carter Dane, Bruce Beckham, Seth Santoro, Trenton Ducati, Brent Corrigan, Jesse Jackman, Luke Adams, Jaxton Wheeler, William Seed, Johnny Rapid, Diego Sans, Jordan Levine, Ryan Bones, Markie More, and, from Sean Cody, Brysen, Nixon, Blake, Brock, Asher, Deacon. Not all of these are my own favorites, but they do have strong followings.

I hope Colby Keller has been blackballed.

OP, I think Gabriel Clark and Tommy Defendi both announced their retirement. .. And I believe Paddy O'Brien is a men.com "exclusive," so they pace his appearances. .. Colby Keller has been in two videos for that same studio during the last couple of months as part of their silly "Justice League" parody where he plays "The Green Lantern."

Lately CF has gotten some very good models in the last year. I just wish they would get on the Daddy bandwagon that is so popular right now. BelAmi has beautiful models but watching two twinks have sex bores me.

OP ... Your question about Tomas Brand ... He's appeared in a new video for Lucas Ent. every month for the last five months. .. Funny how they describe him as a "all top," when one of the recent releases has him bottoming for Ben Bateman.

I think social media has made porn performers *too* accessible. "Stardom" needs a bit of mystery or mystique. Now it is easier to realize your favorite porn performer is an idiot or an asshole, which makes it hard to build a "brand".

I think of it because I have met in my professional life a guy who used to be a porn for many years around a decade ago. His image was total top dominant masculine. And he is the sweetest guy you'll meet but he is also extremely stereotypically gay. There would be no way for him to get away with that image his career was built on if he started porn today.

Your next door neighbors are making it.

Shangela hosts the gay pron awards!

[quote] There's no money in it. I mean, at all.

Somebody's making money off of it because they keep making it.

The money is in the escorting on the side.

Go to Sean Cody if you don't like blowjobs.

R20 R31 BOOM. And that's it. Why deal with the middle man when you can control your image and product. That's how it should be anyway. It's the performers you are paying to watch so why not pay them directly. I love the idea of onlyfans. I hear they are cheating people too though. So many regular hot guys to choose from all over net. Too much competition. R20 totally has it right. I have a new obsession almost every week. I lose interest quick in a guy. I was obsessed with heat martinez and proudbator. So over them I'm on the hunt. And you have to be really fucking awesome for me to purchase a membership to your only fans or site. Proudbator was the last site i joined. For some reason he was really doing it for me. I bought three months for 25 bucks which is cheap but was over it so fast. I don't even check his site anymore and its still paid for. So no. No stars anymore. The man would have to be really something special. My interest changes all the time i realize.

What is a Shangela?

R11 and R16 are spot on. I know people bitched about the price of porn from VHS all the way through Blu-ray, but the bottom line is that porn profitability went to zero in the economic collapse of 2008, and it never recovered once everyone figured out you can steal it with impunity thanks to our ridiculous copyright laws that make it prohibitively expensive to protect ownership rights. The models going direct have no other choice to promote their "wares," so to speak.

Gay porn is dead; long live gay porn.

Needs more raping.

I miss the hot Next Door guys like Samuel O'Toole and Trystan Bull and Adam Wirthmore

Whatever happened to those guys? They all just disappeared.

R47 Trystan bull! Fuck yes.

How much does a "director" like Chi Chi make on a film? He's been around forever, is he rich or just getting by?

Trystan Bull was one of those horrible "trade tops" who don't suck, rim, kiss, or bottom. PASS!

The internet killed porn.

Just like it killed music and conventional movies.

This is why there are so many porns filmed in cheap hotel rooms and "mainstream" movies with no-name stars.

Most of the guys are just not sexy. Even all the guys camming. They just lay there. There is more to it than just looking nice. Only a handful have sexual heat, sensuality, and eroticism. For me it takes hours to find one. Just not worth it to me.

Where have all the gay whores gone?

Long time passing....

Where have all the gay whores gone?

Gone to amateur, every one

R47 From what I know, "Adam Wirthmore" (real name: Kevin) went on to finish his Masters degree in Civil Engineering and currently does that type of work for a firm in Southern California. Very liberal politically, he occasionally posts on Facebook. He also has his professional profile on Linkedin. ... With the man in his life last year:

The market is flooded with gay porn actors unlike thirty years ago when only a few men would do gay porn. It's driven the 'salaries' drastically down in the industry. Everybody's willing to do it, so why pay for quality or a 'name.'

"Trade tops" should be hung. Girth Brooks could get away with being a trade top. Trystan Bull could not.

And yes, there is little money in porn now.

[quote] How much does a "director" like Chi Chi make on a film? He's been around forever, is he rich or just getting by?

I suppose if you're directing a video or 2 a week you could make a decent living. But at this point it appears CCLR would be lucky to get a directing (if you can call it that) job every few months. And the fact he had to beg for money to keep his dope rehab going indicates he either spent it as fast as he could make it, or was never rolling in it in the first place.

Trystan Bull was hot as fuck though. Girth Brooks... wasn't.

I miss Adam Wirthmore, loved him, but glad he seems table and happy, if all that's true, R54.

Still wonder what happened to Samuel O'Toole. Stupid name, but he had such a clean-cut attractiveness, and a killer smile (and dick). Met him once in person (he was stripping at a club in Austin, celebrity go-go-boy). Even hotter in person, and he smelled great when I went up to tip him. He seemed friendly and gave me a peck on the cheek as thanks.

OP, you're so right. It is a real harbinger of the decline of civilization. Of the current crop, I can't imagine anyone having the wherewithal to ascend to the Supreme Court, as did Justice Mike Branson.

R53 you made me laugh, anyway -

Bump

Are Diego Sans and Paddy O'Brien just about the only still active porn stars who've never barebacked? Maybe throw in Topher DiMaggio (not sure if he's still active.)

[quote]Your next door neighbors are making it.

And then putting it on Twitter.

Regardless of how reluctant people are to pay for their porn in general, anytime Lukas Ridgeston wants to get back in front of the camera I'm leaping for my credit card as soon as I hear the news.

r64 He did do a mini-comeback when he turned 40 and looked hotter than ever.