Here Are The Gay Nominees For The Completely Meaningless 2016 XBIZ Awards
For those who don’t care or don’t have the time to scroll through seven hundred billion straight porn categories just to get to the six gay porn categories buried at the bottom of the page like a red-headed stepchild, here are the largely meaningless 2016 XBIZ Awards nominations for performers and studios from the gay side of the adult industry. Meaningless because a) the nominees are virtually identical to last year (Icon Male and Pride Studios replace Lucas Entertainment and ChaosMen in the Best Studio category; Dirk Caber, Trenton Ducati, Landon Conrad, Hunter Marx, Evan Parker, Sean Zevran, and Connor Maguire are all nominated again as Best Performer) and b) any group that nominates Nica Noelle as Best Director or Lucas Entertainment as Best Company can’t be seen as legitimate.
As I said last year, you have to wonder why XBIZ even bothers including gay porn in their annual awards ceremony. Maybe it’s to appease the straight porn conglomerates (AEBN, MindGeek, etc.) that own some of the gay porn studios? Maybe it’s just professional courtesy? Maybe they don’t want to appear anti-gay? At any rate, here are the six categories, which actually should just be four, unless XBIZ would like to explain what the difference is between Gay Studio, Gay Adult Site, and Gay Web Company. (Apparently, putting a “dot com” after a studio’s name makes them eligible for a completely separate award.) Also, as hot and as sweet as he is, was Performer of the Year nominee Landon Conrad even in any gay porn this year?
Gay Studio of the Year
Active Duty
Bel Ami
Channel 1 Releasing
CockyBoys
Dragon Media
Falcon Studios
Helix Studios
Icon Male
Hot House Entertainment
MEN.com
NakedSword
Next Door Studios
Pride Studios
Raging Stallion Studios
Titan Men
Gay Movie of the Year
Answered Prayers (CockyBoys)
Bad Cop (Titan)
Daddy Issues (Channel 1)
Dirty Rascals (NakedSword)
Employee Relations (Pride Studios)
Gay of Thrones 1 (Men.com)
Gino’s Summer Adventure (Bel Ami)
Guard Patrol (Monster Bang/Raging Stallion)
Hard Medicine (Hot House)
His Son’s Best Friend (Icon male)
Man on Twink (Helix)
Men in the City 1 & 2 (Sarava/Kristen Bjorn)
The Men I Wanted 2 (Lukas Kazan)
Tahoe: Cozy Up/Keep Me Warm (Falcon)
Working Class Stiff (Dragon Media)
Adult Site of the Year – Gay
BelAmiOnline.com
C1R.com
CockyBoys.com
CorbinFisher.com
IconMale.com
LucasEntertainment.com
Men.com
NakedSword.com
PeterFever.com
TitanMen.com
Gay Web Company of the Year
BelAmi
Buddy Profits
Channel 1 Releasing
CockyBoys
Corbin Fisher
Cybersocket
IconMale
Lucas Entertainment
Naked Sword
TitanMen
Gay Director of the Year
Bruno Bond
Gio Caruso
Steve Cruz
Tony Dimarco
Rocco Fallon
Nick Foxx
Joe Gage
Luke Hamill
Jake Jaxson
Chi Chi LaRue
Jasun Mark
Nica Noelle
mr. Pam
Alex Roman
Ettore Tosi
Gay Performer of the Year
Dirk Caber
Nick Capra
Landon Conrad
Mike de Marko
Trenton Ducati
Levi Karter
Sebastian Kross
Connor Maguire
Hunter Marx
Paddy O’Brian
Evan Parker
Nick Prescott
Adam Russo
Rocco Steele
Sean Zevran
The awards will be handed out on January 15th, 2016 in Los Angeles.
