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.

user: friend  passcode: fauxxx

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!

My debut DVD Roulette has been out for about a month, and I’m really starting to feel the heat. NoFauxxx.Com and my movies have immediately become a full time job, and right now I’m sitting in a hotel in Vancouver BC getting ready to present Nostalgia to an audience for the very first time here at the Vancouver Queer Film Festival. It’s like one day I just woke up with my dream job, and I feel like it’s really just beginning.

Yesterday I wrapped up the editing on Speakeasy. What an ambition project that was, dear lord. I went from making two movies with interlacing vignettes to a full story line. I got to work heavily with Lorelei Lee, a star in many porn communities who is just so brilliant, gorgeous, and talented. Morty Diamond came up from L.A. to help me shoot, and I worked with a ton of seriously handsome FTM performers. It was amazing because here’s me and Morty, a queer femme and an FTM, filming other queer femmes and FTMs have sex. It was an amazing collaboration. I feel I am contributing something entirely new and exciting to the FTM porn shelf. Also, working with Jiz Lee is always such a fucking pleasure (it’s true, we’re in it for the puns, people) and introducing Billy Castro, Tomcat, and Mustache Malone to the scene is something people will be thanking me for for a long time. These men are drop dead gorgeous and any one of them could easily become the next FTM Porn Star.

The reaction to me making films has been so incredibly wonderful and amazing. Winning “Best Queer Porn” for the 35th Annual SF Bay Guardian’s Best of the Bay awards was unexpected and makes me fell so incredibly full of love for everyone who has ever posed for photos, written a blog post, or interviewed me for an academic paper, long before this credit was ever given to the project. It’s at the same time humbling and huge.

I’ve understood for a long time that the ethics model of NoFauxxx.Com has set the standard for other queer porn projects that have come around the past few years, but it’s always been such an obscure little bastard of a porn site… my little baby’s all grown up now, and I’m about to go full force with everything all at once. I’ve hired my darling wife as a photo editor for No Fauxxx so I can focus on the movies I’m making for Reel Queer Productions, and we’ve already started updating the porn site twice a week thanks to her diligent work.

After this already fun and relaxing trip to Canada, I’ll be going home to shoot my next movie, an adorable little social experiment of mine that’s sure to bring out some interesting results… All I’m going to say for now is that you played this game in high school, but this time the heaven lasts about 90 minutes.

We’re throwing a reception for the opening of Courtney Trouble’s photo exhibit at The Seventh Heart. Stop by on Saturday August 8th between 3-6pm to see her work, mingle with friends and add another piece to your wardrobe.

http://www.facebook.com/theseventhheart

Also, Friday Night (August 7th)! Come see the debut of Jenna Riot’s music video, “Won’t You” – directed by Courtney Trouble! It’s at the Oven (51A McCoppin St, basement) at 9pm with special performances by Ice Cream Socialites, Katastrophe, and Jenna herself! Only $3-5 sliding scale.

http://www.courtneytrouble.com

The problem with mainstream porn is that most of it is made in the San Fernando Valley by brainless douche bags and lazy ex-cheerleaders looking for a quick buck. But this is San Francisco. This is the art capital of the world, the home of the free thinker, the land of the awesome. Can’t we get some porn made for us? Yes, we can! Yes, we can! If you’re as sick of Barbie Doll smut as we are, then you should know about local filmmaker-producer-writer-artist Courtney Trouble. Trouble is the founder of a queer porn site called Nofauxxx.com (“queer” as in not just homo, but alternative as well). She’s the final word when it comes to smut with attitude, character, and soul. Not only is No Fauxxx the oldest running queer porn site on the Internet, it’s also the only spot that mixes alt, gay, lesbian, straight, trans, kink, and BBW content. It’s sexy, artsy, entertaining, all-inclusive, and totally DIY. In a word: ours.

www.nofauxxx.com

Your first opportunity to buy a real physical copy of my debut film Roulette will be at Good Vibrations on Valencia St. in San Francisco DURING THE DYKE MARCH on Saturday! You out-of-towners can also place an order through me by clicking here to be shipped the following Monday, or from Good Vibes as soon as they throw the link up.

Here’s the info on the Good Vibes Dyke march event and after party. I will be there along with my wife and porn star Jiz Lee showing a loop of the film, selling the very first copies, and handing out FREE memberships to No Fauxxx, my porn site!

Pink Pleasure Party