The best part of my job is when I get to ask people questions, learn more about them, and then share their stories with a larger audience.
Given all the cell phone sex videos that Lucas sells illegally on the amateur clip sites, I think he has a better chance of being sent to prison before he actually retires. In addition to being found guilty in court for not paying his employees, trying to bribe an awards show (a joke of an awards show that later humiliated itself by apologizing to Lucas after someone called him out on stage), and releasing racist gay porn movies, Lucas tried to say he’d be retiring soon, but I don’t think we’ll be that lucky.
And, of course, there was disgraced porn producer Michael Lucas. People who continued to be idiots (and, thankfully, continued to fade into irrelevance) in 2018 were Donald Trump-supporting right wing bigots and lunatics like Sergeant Miles and Jake Porter. It was entertaining and had a little something for everyone ( hospitalizations! Twitter meltdowns! dramatic interviews! alleged affairs! hacked Instagrams!), but it also had a mostly happy ending, with Ben apologizing and everyone eventually moving on. The best gay porn fight of 2018, of course, was the Ben Masters/Angel Rivera/Joey Mills fight. Which one of your fights was your favorite, Billy? Mine was the one you had with LaRue and Fabscout, which had just the right amount of shade, tea spilling, and classic Santoro narcissistic delusion.
Some of your fights were fun to watch, Billy, but in some of them, you were completely full of shit, tbh. Who did you fight with in 2018? If you were Billy Santoro, you fought with Chi Chi LaRue and talent agent Fabscout Howard, your ex-husband Seth Santoro, the entire straight porn industry, Noir Male and its owner Jon Blitt (and its director LaRue, again), several other studios who’ve blacklisted you, and even Str8UpGayPorn. Oh my God, so many people had fights in 2018. Thank you again to everyone who made it there and who made it happen. The best part is being able to throw a huge party where friends old and new can come together and celebrate each other. The worst part is not being able to just give every nominee an award, but then I guess it wouldn’t really be an awards show if we did that. Putting on an awards show is exhausting and made me want to die at least 10 times from July through October. I think I loved looking at Sean Ford the most. Pam and Bruce Beckham welcomed everyone on the red carpet. CockyBoys won Best Picture and director for Love Lost & Found. Austin Wilde and Joey Mills were the most-awarded stars. Sadly, I guess we’ll never find out how he voted in the midterm elections.īianca Del Rio, Boomer Banks, Blake Mitchell, and over two dozen presenters and performers brought the 2nd annual Str8UpGayPorn Awards to life in Los Angeles in October, and I am forever in their debt. Neither of them will be missed.Īnd finally, remember Colby Keller? He was last seen back in March in Bruce LaBruce’s CockyBoys movie, “ Uber Menschen,” but it seems he too has quietly retired. There were at least two welcome retirements in 2018: Bo圜rush studio owner Bryan Schwandt and Topher DiMaggio thankfully disappeared from making gay porn, after both of them were accused of sexually assaulting multiple men on and off set.
Stars who passed away in 2018 included Kyle Dean, Dave Slick, and Billy Herrington. Gay porn studio TitanMen shut down without officially saying goodbye to anyone, but they’re still re-releasing all their old movies, if you’d like to pretend that they did not shut down. Big stars who were on long hiatuses made some big returns, including Clark Parker, Ricky Larkin, Vadim Black, Leo Giamani, and Andy Taylor. We said goodbye to Tyler Hill and Ryan Rose, and we said goodbye to Sean Cody’s Brysen for a brief moment, before he un-retired. While some of gay porn’s biggest stars retired in 2018, there were plenty who un-retired and made triumphant comebacks throughout the year. Here’s Str8UpGayPorn’s rundown of all the best (and all the worst) gay porn events, news, and stars who shaped 2018. Comebacks, retirements (and un-retirements), Twitter wars, imprisonments, untimely deaths, and plenty of stunts filled the gay porn world in 2018.