Photo Caption: I don't know everybody in this photo but from the left, the people I do know are: me, Tristan Taormino, Jiz Lee, Ned Mayhem, Alison, Reid, Arabelle Raphael, James Darling, and Maxine Holloway.

i hosted an informal gathering at the Lexington Club last night for Tristan Taormino and her new book Take Me There (a trans and genderqueer erotic anthology) and of course, a ton of porn stars, sex geeks, writers, and muses showed up. we screened Live Sex Show and Adrianna’s Dangerous Mind on the Lexington’s big screen television, ate cupcakes, and talked about gender and porn. There were quite a few trans women there and I was excited to see them in the Lexington Club, a place that has felt pretty devoid of trans femininity in the past 6 years that I’ve been going there. There were also a lot of genderqueer (a gender identity outside of the male/female gender binary and heteronormativity) folks, and something else you don’t see at the Lexington every day – queer men making out on the dance floor. (You know who you are!!!). Throughout the course of the party, I just kept looking around at everybody there and feeling overwhelmingly grateful for all of these different kinds of ways we all live our lives. Thinking about how small my community is compared to the rest of the “GLBT” umbrella – a term I’ve long felt disconnected from, as I think we all do as queer-identified “outsiders.” Thinking about how important it is that we keep coming together in these kinds of ways, at all-gender parties. I know a lot of people find safety and comfort in “women only spaces” or “men only spaces.” I find myself the safest and most comfortable in all-gender spaces, or better yet, non-gendered spaces entirely.  And you know where I, perhaps contradictingly and for sure serendipitously, always seem to find the best non-gendered safe spaces? At porn parties.

Live Sex Show Grand Premiere
Screening and Release Party

DECEMBER 11TH 2011
DOORS AT 7.30

Buy Your Tickets Now at Brown Paper Tickets: $8, sliding scale, full benefit for Center for Sex and Culture.

Come join the stars of the film and other Bay Area porn elite to watch Courtney Trouble’s LIVE SEX SHOW for the first time ever on the big screen! A benefit for the Center for Sex and Culture.

Starring Nina Hartley, Jiz Lee, April Flores, Tina Horn, Jolene Parton, Kimberlee Cline, and Roger Wood.

In attendance, director Courtney Trouble, Jolene Parton, Carol Queen, and other stars from the film will be there to watch you watch them, sign autographs, and answer any questions you may have about this sexy film!

Doors at 7:30, Movie stars at 8pm Sharp! Door entry will be cheap sliding scale, and ALL PROCEEDS GO TO THE CENTER FOR SEX AND CULTURE.

Calling all you pervy voyeurs, this porn is for you!! From award winning porn director Courtney Trouble, LIVE SEX SHOW was shot in front of a WILD, HORNY, & WET live audience of 200 people at 2010’s San Francisco’s Masturbate-a-Thon, hosted by Carol Queen.

Starring Nina Hartley and Jiz Lee in a flirty yet FILTHY FINGER FUCKING scene, April Flores and the Matador in a dramatic COCK-SLURPING, PUSSY-POUNDING love story, Tina Horn getting KINKY AND ROUGH, Kimberlee Cline GETTING OFF HARD, Jolene Parton GETTING FUCKED, and Ms. TROUBLE herself in a climactic surprise 5-on-1 ALL STAR GANG BANG!

LIVE SEX SHOW is distributed by TROUBLEfilms

Center for Sex and Culture

1349 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94103

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DJ JENNA RIOT

JIZ LEE & DYLAN RYAN

ALOTTA BOUTTE'

ICY LYTES

JUNE 26TH 2011: Courtney Trouble’s Third Annual QUEERLY BELOVED San Francisco Pride Party for all genders, all sexualities!

PERFORMANCE BY ICY LYTES
BURLESQUE bybay Area legend ALOTTA BOUTTE
and QUEER PORN SUPERSTARS JIZ LEE AND DYLAN RYAN

DJS JENNA RIOT AND BIANCA OBLIVION

QUEER PRIDE PARTY welcome to all genders and sexualities! a pride party for the rest of us!

RESERVE YOUR VIP TICKETS ONLINE:
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/177157
RSVP ON FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=204437956257379

WET T SHIRT CONTEST w/ major prizes from PROJECT TRANSACTION & FIVE AND DIAMOND!!!

hosted by Dommenique St. Putain (queer porn star Quinn Valentine)

hosted by Queer Porn Icon Courtney Trouble

guest celebrity photographer RAE THREAT in the photobooth lounge

WET AND WILD GO GO DANCERS to serve as your eye candy!

food, drink specials, dance party antics, porn screenings, and a ton of free give-aways and suprises!

only $8 – priced to PARTY!!!!

Seven Minutes In Heaven: Coming Out!

I am so, so, so honored to have had my film Seven Minutes In Heaven: Coming Out nominated for it’s hardcore queer gonzo sexiness in the “Best Pro-Am Release” category. I see “Pro-Am” as a really wonderful niche in porn, full of indie porn stars and super hot amateurs working together to make delicious sex scenes.

Seven Minutes In Heaven: Coming Out is the first of my Seven Minutes In Heaven series, where I cast seven queer-identified individuals for their overall sexiness, stamina, and variety – and let them create their own couplings and scenes for an entire day. Nothing is scripted, nothing is set up, and nothing is planned.

Puck Goodfellow, who stars in Seven Minutes in Heaven: Coming Out, as well as Seven Minutes in Heaven 2: Tender Hearted, Speakeasy, and my porn sites No Fauxxx and QueerPornTV – happens to be the only transman starring in any AVN-nominated film this year (aside from Crash Pad Series’ incredible nomination for Best Alternative Website), and my film Seven Minutes In Heaven: Coming Out is the only “Queer Porn” film nominated… which brings me to my contemplations…

I contemplate my space – our space – in the mainstream world. Do we really need it? While they tip their hats to the indie folks because we deserve it, and appreciate it, they still haven’t quite given us the time of day. It’s very rare that indie film-makers make it to the Oscars, and it’s understandable – the films are seen by less people, they have smaller budgets, and like me – aren’t backed by a team of powerful producers, rich advertisers, or great distribution.

Queer Porn is busting forward at record speeds, spilling out new films, new websites, new performances, new projects, new everything, faster than they are able to follow. It’s not their fight or focus – and if they were to truly include us queers, they would have a whole lot of work to do breaking down gender barriers and the entire niche system of porn. It’s OK – they don’t have to.

The internet has created this wealthy, wonderful world for queer identified folks to find porn, to find community, to find art, music, friends, and support. I’m excited to go play with the big kids in Vegas in January (I actually really love my friends involved in sex toy companies, porn companies, performing, and press in the “mainstream world”) – but I am even more excited about the diverse, incredible, sexy, brilliant, and resilliant community that brought me there, that inspires me, and feeds me knowledge and love. This community rocks, and deserves it’s own awards show we’re that good!

My mind was blown this morning. I was recently introduced to Kelly Shibari last week after watching Carlos Batt’s “Dangerous Curves” trailer. She is definately hot and smart and has no problem proving so on her many websites and twitter account, whish is seriously blowing up today after her annoucement of the launch of PaddedKink.Com – an all plus size bdsm/kink porn site.

This is literally the first, or at least best, of it’s kind. I read a line in the video trailer that really spoke to me and fucking rocked my world: “The Kink sites wont do it, the Porn sites don’t know how” – and that’s so fucking true. I can’t tell you how many times I have applied for “The Armory” as a model and have never even received a reply. It’s not because I’m not hot or experienced, either.

This basically reminds me of when and why I started NoFauxxx.Com in 2002. I kept getting pissed off that sexy-as-all-hell (and not in that “everybody’s beautiful” kind of way either) fat girls were applying for alt porn sites like s/g and getting burned. No Fauxxx was, for the most part, the only place plus sized alt girls could go to make some respectable porno.

I am so excited to see this site grow and grow and grow. And hopefully, you’ll be seeing my very first bondage scene on there someday soon.

Congrats to PaddedKink.Com on their incredible launch.

Free Video from PaddedKink.Com (via tour page)

Good For Her Emerging Filmmaker Award

• Filmmakers must be 19 years old and must submit proof of age with application (Copy of valid Drivers License and/or Passport)
• Filmmakers must not have won a previous FPA award
• Filmmakers must not currently have a distribution deal.
• Filmmakers must submit a written personal statement out lining their current and/or proposed creative project(s). Personal statements must illuminate the ways in which the proposed work will contribute to feminist porn as a genre.  We want to know what you are planning on doing, how you plan to do it and why you think it’s sexy!
• Good For Her will ask for material from winner to be shown at Awards Ceremony which may or may not include video acceptance speech, current project reel and/or clips. Written statements and image to be provided by winner for use in online and print promotional material for Good For Her and sponsoring companies.
• All applicants will be notified by e-mail when material is received by Good For Her and winners will not be announced to the public until the Awards ceremony on April 9^th, 2010. Should the winner of the EFA be unable to attend the awards, Good For Her reserves the right to request a video acceptance speech prior to the event, to be submitted by winner no later than February 15, 2010.
• The costs of sending the DVD will be covered by the film-maker. We will not accept deliveries that have not been paid for. We will not be able to send any submitted work back, so do not send any masters/originals.
• The filmmaker also agrees that clippings of the film (up to 40%) may be shown on TV or online in press coverage of the event without further agreements.
• The film-makers have to confirm that neither Good For Her nor the sponsor can be sued by third parties regarding the rights of this film and accept full liability for the submission of this film which is under their copyright.
• The film-maker agrees with the submission of the film and submission form that they (the applicant) accept the rules of this competition.

The Fifth Annual Good For Her Feminist Porn Awards will be held on April 8th and 9th in Toronto Canada.

Last year, I went to AVN as a stowaway really. Playing assistant to the Babeland buyer, I cleaned up after the big party, made myself useful for the buyer during meetings, ang shuffled around little handmade Roulette DVD-Rs to people I met that I though could help me finish it, distribute it, and you know, get famous.

I also met four people I admire, respect, and generally look up to as artistic muses and role models: Eon McKai, April Flores, Tristan Taormino, and Nina Hartley.  Eon and April have become my friends since last year, and it feels like Christmas every time I get to work with either one of them.

For some, the AVN Awards might seem silly, redundant, even down right ridiculous. But to those of us that have been invisible as artists, performers, and magic-makers for so long, being recognised as some of the best is truly an honor. It is so fucking cool that queer porn invisibility has been shattered on this day.

Here is a list of everything I had a hand in that was nominated.

Best Music Soundtrack: Roulette, directed by Courtney Trouble (featuring music by Erase Errata, Scream Club, Katastrophe, Delta Dart, French Quarter, and my wife’s band Cottages)

Best Music Soundtrack: Speakeasy, directed by Courtney Trouble (featuring songs from the 40′s I found on Archive.Org)

Champion, Best Feature Film, non-sex role by Trouble (plus, director Shine Louise Houston, Syd Blakovich, Jiz Lee, Madison Young, and Dylan Ryan!)

Good Releasing, Best New Video Production Company, the company that all my films are funded, produced, and distributed by

And an extra special congratulations to Jiz Lee, nominated for Best New Web Starlet, Dylan Ryan for her incredible solo performance in Crash Pad Series 3, Carols Batts for Best Director (Voluptuous Biker Babes starring April Flores), Kimberly Kane and all 7 of her nominations, Eon for his nominations for Content and On Your Dirty Knees, and Good Vibes for Best Online Retailer.

I love this magazine because it mixes the sex appeal of the models Tuck, Cyd, Elijah, Jay R, and Katastrophe with super-personal interviews about sex, politics, culture, and the process of transitioning. The photography by the great Amos Mac is fantastic, personal, and not over-the-top like the only other photographer I know who focuses on FTM portraits. In fact, everything about Amos’ photography, politics, and personality in this project feels so much more accessible, respectful, real, and creative than that other guy.

The fact that this magazine isn’t just about sex is what really gets me into it. Cyd’s story TRASH is a really beautifully written personal-experience piece about squatting, sex work, and the clarity you find in personal space. Katastrophe’s interview is at first an adorable tale of kitten obsessions mixed with some steamy photos of crotch-and-kitten-book, but moves into a conversation about K’s break from recording, his brush with VH1 Reality fame, and the time he considered “going stealth” and changing his recording name entirely to avoid medical questions during interviews.

It’s a breath-taking magazine that you can say “I get it for the articles,” and mean it. Although, those damn pin-ups are distractingly sexy!!!

It reminds me a lot of that faggy zine BUTT that I love so much, except by and for trans guys. I also love that it’s a totally independent release that Amos and Rocco worked so. fucking. hard. to get out into the world.

Here’s a cute video from the release party taken with my new Flip HD. Still trying to figure out exporting settings, but I’ll get there.

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I am having way too much fun seeing what it would be like if No Fauxxx were a free queer porn site!

Right now, for today only, you can see inside the member’s area of No Fauxxx for free for the first time ever, including all of the amazing new videos that have been posted in the past month or so from Roulette and Nostalgia.

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Even better? If you leave a comment on one of the new photo sets or videos from the front page, you could win a free two month membership to No Fauxxx after the Free Day ends.

Let’s keep the fun coming, everyone!