Sex Positive Photo Project Interviews me and Courtney Trouble

My friend Shilo McCabe runs an excellent blog called the Sex Positive Photo Project. Here are some exceprts from an interview Shilo did with me and Courtney Trouble on the eve of the Queer Porn Tv launch:

http://thesexpositivephotoproject.blogspot.com/2010/11/exclusive-interview-with-courtney.html#more


ON QUEER PORN STARS:

"The idea was to ask our friends and our community to come out and do the hottest, most extreme scenes they could do; hopefully a scene that they might not get the opportunity to do in other forums.

In talking to them while building the personality of the site, we knew we were going to be asking them questions that they had very interesting answers for. We had under our very noses, not only all of this hardcore content, but also a documentary of this sexually transgressive culture right now, and how people feel right now.

So we asked them in the video interviews for the star pages: ‘What is your definition of queer and what does queer mean to you?’ and ‘Do you consider yourself an exhibitionist and what does that mean to you?’ ‘What does being a sex worker mean to you?’ ‘How has porn changed your life?’

I think there are so many misconceptions about all of those subjects, and so many more subjects that we asked them about, and here we have these primary sources who, thankfully, are willing to be so gut wrenchingly honest with us because of the real relationships we have with them.

In particular, I really hope these primary source interviews can be used as fodder against those who say that essentially porn is degrading to women, who say that porn essentially exploits the performers, porn is essentially negative and should be destroyed in our society.

We have people saying “We love this! Don’t take this away from us!” So hopefully we’ll be able to make fools of anti-porn people.

And to me, while I am totally proud of the smut we’ve made, those video interviews are the thing I’m most proud of and I can’t wait to see how people react to it."

ON DOCUMENTING A QUEER COMMUNITY

"We are documenting the Queer culture as it, but community isn’t static and culture isn’t static. Communities who are historically disenfranchised by society will thrive when they know, and see, a way they can proliferate, when they see their people being proud. In particular, the community that we are documenting is a community that is oppressed and suppressed.

We are extremely fortunate, and I think we take this for granted, that we can express ourselves without fear of judgment and it is almost our responsibility as San Francisco Queers to take what we have; which is the ability to walk down the street holding hands with our partners without fear of violence and hate, and use that to help Queer people who aren’t so fortunate. We get to create a worldwide network of people who can be proud of who they are and express their sexuality and get off and feel great.

A very important part of the definition of Queer for me is inclusivity. I am not a separatist in any way. So to open porn up and say: “Anybody can be a queer porn star!” we really do believe that.

Also, the truth is that queer porn thrives financially because there are non-queer people who fetishize that culture. We definitely made Queer Porn TV for Queer people, but also with non-queer people in mind. Not just as a financial demographic, but also because we’re hoping to turn that idea of fetishizing Queer culture around and reclaiming it by saying, ok, if you want to jerk off to us, you’re going to have to speak our language.

Even though there is some sensationalism in how we market the site, you know, “Hot queers at their hardcore horniest” it’s always a little bit ironic and a little bit tongue in cheek. It’s like a Trojan horse; a way to get into people’s minds and computers and bedrooms with our radical politics that are obvious on the site. And not just ours, but the politics of all the people who have been involved."


ON WHAT MAKES QUEER PORN TV UNIQUE:

"We are completely self-funded and unfortunately we can’t afford to pay our actors as much as we think they are worth. But, at the same time, as a performer myself, I certainly don’t get paid as much as I would in LA to be a porn star. But my experience has been, and as a director for Queer Porn TV the experience I try to create is, that you get to do whatever kind of sexual performance you want, without any kinds of limits.

We don’t tell you how to groom yourself. We don’t tell you how to present yourself. We don’t tell you what is sexy. We tell you that you are fucking sexy.

And we provide a forum for that. For me, that is a great way to make money, even if it’s a little bit of money. I think it shows in the performances that people are so happy to have the opportunity to be their honest sexual selves. I hope that that comes across. "

Queer Porn Tv is Alive!! ALIVE!

www.queerporn.tv is ALIVE!!

My baby is born and ready for a smack on the ass!

Since April of this year I have been working on a massive hardcore porn/social documentary with Courtney Trouble. Basically in three years I went from jerking off to queer porn to smelling the pheromones of my heroes as I directed them in glamourous and naughty scenes.

Please check it out! Download scenes or become a VIP member! Tell em Tina sent you...

Here is my QPTV page with my interview. The interviews are a crucial part of this website... maybe one day we will make a feature-legnth documentary!

The Sex Positive Photo Project ... San Francisco Bay Area: Exclusive Interview with Courtney Trouble & Tina ...

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Femina Potens Playshops!

Returning to the Bay from NYC a few weeks ago, I was struck by a proliferation of orange and black, not due to Halloween, but Giants Pride! I must be honest, I am not much of a sports fan, but anything that inspires this much public pleasure is all right by me.

Like the victorious local team, Femina Potens makes me proud to be a San Franciscian. FP is a women and queer gallery and community space run by Madison Young, a legend in her own time, who gave me my start in Layover

On Sunday November 14th I am teaching two workshops at FP: Dirty Talk and Spanking.

My classes are casual, sex positive, queer-friendly, funny, and very sexy. I take special care to cater each workshop to the people who attend.

Read more below and pre-register. If you come to either and mention you read my blog I will take you out for a drink after!

Femina Potens is located at 2199 Market St at Sanchez in the Castro.

SPANKING!

November 14, 4PM

$20

Spanking fantasies are as varied as the people who enjoy them, but often stigmas keep us from safely exploring this fun, cost-free erotic activity. Some of us daydream of strict discipline, while others just enjoy any way we can get our hands on a nice ass. Join profession dominant/submissive and kinky porn star Tina Horn as she leads an upbeat seminar that will empower you to live out and take pride in your fantasies.Tops will empower themselves with the skills necessary to administer the most delicious spanks, and bottoms will learn how they can help facilitate the treatment they've always deserved. This class will also touch on other types of impact play such as flogging and caning, as well as basic role play and Dominant/Submissive techniques. Novices, old hands, tops, bottoms, couples, men, women, and queers of all identities and orientations are welcome and encouraged to attend. Class will include a hot live demo!

To buy tickets: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/134175

DIRTY TALK!

It's often said that the biggest erogenous zone is between the ears, not the legs and sexy talk is a great way to get it going. BDSM professional, kinky porn star, and confirmed shameless exhibitionist motormouth Tina Horn will open your mind to dirty dynamics and have you cursing like a sailor in no time. You'll get a chance to practice dirty talk, learn how to get in touch with your own fantasies and the fantasies of others, and experience the excitement that words can unlock in and outside the boudoir or dungeon. People of all genders, partnerings, and desires welcome!

To buy tickets: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/134176

I am also reading at Femina Potens' Lit Series Sizzle on November 20th with Madison herself, along with my beloved Lorelei Lee and the brilliant Laura Antoniou. Rachel Kramer Bussel is working on getting an advance copy of a Cleis Bondage Erotica anthology for me to read from... and I am feeling inspired by the changing season to pen some hot stories of Dolores Park hook-ups and oyster dinners... So maybe you'll get a preview?

XOXO

Tina

Falling Back

Hey babies! Just back from a whirl-wind tour of NYC. Working at Pandora's Box and getting into all kinds of trouble with Akira Raine and Mercedes Carson. Consumed many bagels. Had Lower East Side drinks with Ignacio Rivera, renegade photo shoots under bridges and in fancy Times Square hotel rooms, took in the faggiest show on Broadway! Back just in time for Jiz Lee's 30 person 30th's Birthday orgy, which has given me a mega-boner that just won't go away.

November is going to be a wild month. More on that to cum.
XOXO
Tina Horn

DIrty Talk at Pure Pleasure!

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You Are A Queer Porn Star Party!

Cum join me and a hell of a lot of queer porn stars and other exhibitionists to get down and dirty to celebrate my new hardcore sex/cultural documentary project with Courtney Trouble, QueerPorn.Tv!

You Are A Queer Porn Star Video Contest!

ARE YOU A QUEER PORN STAR? WE THINK SO!

QueerPorn.TV is a new community-driven, edgy, hardcore XXX porn project from award-winning feminist, queer pornographer/porn star Courtney Trouble and porn star/kink expert Tina Horn to be fully launched in late fall 2010

QueerPorn.TV is hosting a contest to promote the launch, and everybody wins a prize!We are looking for folks over 18 of all genders, sexual identities, and styles to come out and say “I Am A Queer Porn Star!” You don’t actually have to be famous, have performed in porn, or even turned on a camera in order to enter the contest. In our minds, everybody is a queer porn star - and we’d like to prove that by making a fabulous YouTube video of hundreds of people saying “I Am A Queer Porn Star!”

QueerPorn.TV is ready to reward you for helping us make this video. Everyone who enters the contest and appears in the final video project will get a very special, top secret beta membership to QueerPorn.TV and access to all of our content and features before the official launch.

TO ENTER

Film a clip of yourself saying, signing, writing, or somehow expressing “I Am A Queer Porn Star” - we MUST be able to read, hear, or see that exact phrase in order to include you in the video and the prize.

E-mail your clip (around 10 seconds maximum please!), your model release, and identification scan to info@queerporn.tv with “I am A Queer Porn Star” in the subject.

DUE DATE: October 15th, 2010

Acceptable Video Formats

MOV, MP4, or anything from an iPhone or Apple’s Photobooth program. No AVI - Standard Quality is prefered, but footage from a FlipCam HD will be accepted.

Model Release

Digital Model Release for QueerPorn.TV

I, ____________________, ceritify that I am over the age of 18 at the time of filming this sequence for QueerPorn.TV’s “I Am A Queer Porn Star” Video Contest, and release my image, likeness, and name to QueerPorn.TV for marketing, advertising, entertainment, and promotional purposes. I understand that my video might be edited for length or to improve quality, and release all ownership of this content to QueerPorn.TV.

Digital Signature: ___________
Name: ___________
Date: ____________
Date of Birth: ___________
E-Mail: _________________
Phone: _________________
Address: _______________

Your personal information will not be shared at all.
Please attach a scanned JPG of a photo ID that proves your age.

Content Guideline

One 10 second color video clip that must include the phrase “I Am A Queer Porn Star” in any way. Must be “YouTube Friendly” - ie, no explicit nudity, no exposed breasts, no genitals on any gender. You can do whatever else you like as long as you say “I Am A Queer Porn Star!”

Buy a Pin Up Calendar! Support Women's Health!

In mid 2009 some friends in my community started a project to raise money for local health providers of low-income women. Professional photographers, make-up and hair stylists, and designers banded together with twelve models to create a one-of-a-kind pin-up calendar! Some of the ladies, like myself and the incomparable Lorelei Lee (pictured) are used to taking it all off for the camera, while many others are refreshingly amateur.The gorgeous final product is here just in time for 2011!

Buy one (or three as gifts!), support women's health, and enjoy healthy fun-loving sensual women all year long!

http://pinupclinc.blogspot.com!

Why Do You Make Porn?

When I want to be aroused, I want to use my imagination, not look at something pretty. I am also not tempted by sweets or moved to regressive states at the site of babies. I am no trying to prove anything or impress anyone. This is just the way I am. It's the opposite of what you would expect. It's harmonic dissonance.

It is the animation of porn, not the attractiveness of the people or settings, which arouses my interest, insofar as those movements suggests meaning.

The meaning doesn't have to be original, feminist, or romantic - it could most certainly be "because he came to fix the cable".

In queer porn, the reason for my interest is usually "because they're queer".

Now, the queerness of the performers does often manifest in their physical presentation, but it also very much has to do with what they do and how they do it.

Still, this preference reveals my identification with the performers and/or the role they're playing, which helps me relate to the desires of the Typical Porn Consumer ie the hetero male, for whom the genesis of arousal is generally "because she's pretty."

For me to Do Porn, I must now confess, has been an exercise in sexual self discovery and an inquiry into the general mysteries of sex itself.

Porn simply offered me an opportunity for exploration that is more my style and more in my nature than, it turns out, drunken one night stands, long term hetero monogamy, or even the overstimulation of San Francisco sex parties.

Because I trust my colleagues and community, I am able to put my body through extreme physical and emotional situations, acts of pain, contortion, abuse, exposure, torture, "forced" penetration. All of this empirical negativity occurs within a consensual context: fantasy, an honest day's work, the production of something designed solely for the pleasure of others. Within this context, this box, I confront all this horror and endure, survive, grow, and return to the rest of my life. I am able to experience what I and my body are capable of without fear and without the distraction of personal meaning.

In many cases it has only been through this contextualized, compartmentalized experience that I have been able to experience certain sexual excitements and satisfactions, and experience the raw state of my true sexual identity.

Having sex for money, on record, with someone who is not in the strictest se

nse of the word, my lover, is a method of publicly announcing:

This is really happening to me! Right?

Because I have never gotten over my incredulity about sex.

And of course, there is the fact that once you have sex for money on camera once, you're automatically a star!

i'm back.. and... Dirty Talk workshop!

Well babies, I am back from a month-long sojourn to Europe where my famous ass got tanned by the sun instead of your hands for once and i barely ever thought about sex at all seriously for reals except reading Barbara Carrellas' excellent thought-provoking Urban Tantra on the beach.

Please come out to my newest workshop, Use Your Words at Good Vibes Polk! This is my attempt to synthesize a lot of theory, technique, experience, and insight into a class not only on how to get over self consciousness about being verbal in the sack, and not only about how to incorporate fantasy into your sex life, but about how useful BDSM tenants like negotiation, boundaries, and safe words can make anyone's sex life more exciting.

Register in advance and save some yen.

Come hang out with me and talk dirty!

Use Your Words: Hot & Sexy Talk with Tina Horn

Tuesday, August 17th, 6-

8 pm

$25 in advance, $30 at the door

It’s often said that the biggest erogenous zone is between the ears, not the legs and sexy talk is a great way to get it going. Whether you want to whisper sweet endearments or get dirty, your words can help turn up the heat! BDSM professional, kinky porn star, and confirmed shameless exhibitionist motormouth Tina Horn will have you cursing like a sailor in no time. You’ll discover how to use your words to get a date, tips for making sex and play hotter with a well-chosen phrase, and how you and your partner can get in touch with your deepest desires.

Masturbate-a-thon!

No shit. I will be among the first ever live sex performances at the legendary Masturbate-a-thon at the Center for Sex and Culture, tomorrow May 30th.
You can watch it live all day (me at 7) at the Masturbate-a-thon site!

just for fun

Administering punishment to legendary fetish photographer Charles Gatewood. Trust me, he deserved it.

my new Aslan Leather strap-on harness!

While in Toronto for the week of the Feminist Porn Awards, I had the great pleasure of meeting Carrie Gray, owner of Aslan Leather. Carey threw a magnificent play party called Switch at Renegade, an "open to interpretation" community space. It was my last night in Toronto and an excellent way to make sure I slept the entire plane ride home to San Francisco!

After a week of assisting Courtney Trouble, shooting five scenes in five days, attending countless FPA events, and taking sessions at Patricia Marsh's dungeon, the party

was the perfect hedonistic release. Virtually every sex positive person I'd met the preceding week was there, looking their leather best. If Switch was any indication, Canadians do it dirty, and they do it all night.

Madison Young, who is always looking out for my best interest, had introduced me to Gray at Dylan Ryan's birthday party, as "someone you'll like, because she LOVES to be spanked!" (Thanks, Madison!) Grey promised me a spanking at Switch and boy did I get it! After a week of hard work and sexual overstimulation, being beaten on a leather spanking bench was like a luxurious bath or a happy hour pint.

But Gray's generosity and hospitality didn't end there. I expressed an appreciation for Aslan's leather craftsmanship, and my desire for a new harness specifically for fucking girls.

Several years ago, my slave Dale (the rocknroll slave, aka "The Roadie"!) gifted me with a gorgeous black leather harness which has very much become my Mistress Tina strap on. It's a harness for punishing, emasculating, and training (occupations to which I devote considerable energy).... not, I have decided, for pleasing a beautiful woman, which is another thing I manage to get up to quite a lot of the time.

So, courtesy of Carrie Gray and Aslan Leather, a new ride has come into my life: The Chocolate Jag. Ain't she a beaut, ladies and gents?

When I got this in the mail, I couldn't resist trying my hand at dirty amateur self portraits...

Back to the harness...I can't wait for the chance to use this on camera. You can't imagine how soft the leather is. It holds my cock deliciously against my cunt so I get worked up and swollen from fucking. I love that the back straps can run up the middle of my backside or be pulled out to the side to cradle my ass.

Tell me what you think and peruse Aslan's incredible inventory of leather gear.

On submission

some words on being a sexual and BDSM submissive (written for my petition for Training of O)

I came to BDSM (BDSM came to me?) through my work as a dom, sub, fetish and fantasy professional. I gravitated towards the work out of curiosity, but it didn't take long for me to realize that pain exchange, fantasy, and power play has always been an integral part of my sexuality and personality.

For me, the greatest integrity of being a submissive is surrendering my body, mind and erotic energy to the guidance and turn-ons of a top. As an artist and intellectual and athlete I look to folks I admire to set the bar higher and the pace faster. As a top I am always moved and impressed by a bottom whose genuine desire to serve ME becomes an inspiration for me to take things somewhere I didn't know I was capable of going. There i

s a lot of continuity in my switch identity, and I love to be

the ideal bottom for my top persona, the complementary sadist for the masochist in me, and vice versa.

While I enjoy topping and consider myself a sadist in some regards, I am at my most genuine as a submissive, bottom, and masochist. I have been lucky to have playing DS relationships with several women and men in the intervening years who are wonderful tops.

The Story of O (both the Pauline Réage novel and Guido Crepax comic) was an early teenage source of erotic fascination for me. Its appeal lies in the way the story explicitly plays out and literalizes a confrontation of my values and identities - inequality of the sexes to a feminist, supreme power to an anti-authoritarian, strict structure and etiquette to an anarchist punk. I have since developed an understanding that what is satisfying about DS play for me is the way it explores social anxieties - gender trouble, sexual inequality - or my own issues - beauty image, authority - in an erotic arena. In other words, it's satisfying to be called a slut/bitch/cunt, or t

o call a man "Sir" in play or bed because, not in spite of, the fact that I would not allow anyone to call me a slut on the street and loath to defer to power or control in my everyday life.

The submissive dimension of my sexuality derives from my nature as an extreme attention whore, my gluttony for extreme sensations and situations, my need for deep, immersive fantasy experience, and my love of tests of endurance.

I get off earning the right to be the center of attention. Ultimately I live to entertain.

Sliquid Review

ON LUBE:

I am a horny girl that just doesn't get that wet.

It's very difficult for a sexual extrovert to admit. Even among the sex positive there is an association of female arousal with gushing, juicy, squirting pussies. The truth is, even when I am turned on and ready for action, my equipment doesn't do much facilitating. I am a very healthy person, and my libido is doing just fine. But even when I am relaxed and hydrated I just don't produce that much juice. I never have, not as a teenager, not when jerking off, not when I'm with men, women, queers, getting spanked, nothing.

All of this is to say: lube is very important to me! When I was younger I definitely let the prevailing attitude win, allowing myself to believe that lube was for people who were physically unhealthy or had sexual issues. When I got into anal play in my mid-20's, I quickly got the picture that lube was not only recommended but utterly necessary for anal pleasure. Once I had the stuff around, it was only a hop skip and a jump to using it on things that were going into my pussy. Particularly when I use condoms when having penetrative sex with people that are not fluid bonded to me, or porous toys that are easier to keep clean by using a barrier, I find lube totally crucial to keeping me warm and keeping the condom intact. I am also frequently commended for having a very tight pussy for a slut - so lube helps things last longer - more pleasure for everyone involved.

SLIQUID:

Sliquid is an important product for a world that is doing its damndest to make green, sustainable products accessible and common-place. I'm reminded of kids I knew in Santa Cruz, California: die-hard vegans who lived in the woods, preached all sorts of radical and anarchist values, but swilled corporate beer from 7-11 every night. In other words: if you care about putting organic food in your mouth (as well you should, in my opinion), then shouldn't you care the products that go in your other, highly absorbent holes? And sex should be a sustainable activity!

I got to try out Sliquid organic botanically infused lube on behalf of Babeland. It's certified Organic, 100% Vegan and its ingredients read like a Kombucha bottle or one of those obscenely expensive dead sea moisturizers I can't live without (we're talking flax and green tea!).

The fact that it's water-based means it's compatible with latex condoms. It's glycerin free so it doesn't have that sickly, sticky, saccharine smell and feel of some lubes, and less prone to causing yeast infections. It's also free of paraben the controversial cosmetic preservative, and petroleum.

MY EXPERIENCE:

My big test for lube is; if I put a drop between my fingers and rub them together, does it create a second slick skin or make my fingers gooey? I'd give Sliquid a B on this count - I don't like it when lube makes my hands sticky. It smells like a cup of tea or an organic grocery store, which is wonderful. As for its function on my pussy, I found that it dries and need reapplying quite frequently, which is a minus.t

MY ONLY QUALM: with the liberal-friendly packaging, complete with lotus flower icon, is its emphasis on the product being "for women." Many transmen, genderqueer and intersex people have equipment that benefits from lube, and I can see them being turned off by a product being marketed to women. The implication that only women use lube, or that only women have vaginas, is one that I would hope an organic safer sex company would be working to help eliminate.

Furthermore, I would like to see progressive companies marketing products like lube as being something men and people who sleep with women should keep around as a sexual consideration, like condoms or chocolate. I once had a cisgendered male lover with a much larger than average sized cock; the first time we sleep together was at his place, and when he produced a bottle of lube to offer me my respect for him (to say nothing of my arousal!) was considerably increased.

That's all for now! Stay tuned for more reviews.... XOXOXO Tina Horn

more on the FPAs

Post FPA brunch with Jiz Lee and April Flores!

I had the immense pleasure of getting to know Parisian porn star Judy Minx during my trip to Toronto. Judy has a preternatural ability to be dead serious about her sexuality while relishing the humor in the shocked way most people react to her bluntness. We had lovely slumber parties at Drew Devaux's and illuminating cab conversations and filmed a very special scene involving pissing and fisting for a very exciting upcoming project. Behind us in this picture from the ceremony is Madison Young, the kinky who gave me my first big break in porn!

What follows is an article I wrote covering the awards:

The ceremony-cum-party of the 5th Annual Feminist Porn Awards transformed the Berkeley Church in Toronto, Canada, into a decadent underground club of sexual deviants. The cavernous church overflowed with fetish fashionistas, boys in skirts, girls in ties, glitter, leather, latex, heels, boots, and indie-smut luminaries from all over the globe. They gathered to worship the very best in last year's conscious, creative, progressive pornography.

The FPAs have become a Toronto institution thanks to local sex shop Good For Her, which this year honored 47 films and seven websites that, in their words, "expand the boundaries of sexual representation on film and challenge stereotypes that are often found in mainstream porn." Judging by the record-breaking crowd of 450 revelers at the 2010 event, and by the wild local sex celebrities who graced the stage, Toronto is emerging as a veritable mecca of sex positive, artistic, queer, feminist community.

The event itself played like a raunchy variety show. HostMorgan Brayton, a blowsy Mae West-type, ran the night like a dive bar cabaret MC. Indeed, the sincere award presenting and inspiring acceptance speeches were well balanced by a diverse group of burlesque and drag performers including Ill Nana, Masti Khor, and Coco La Creme. Playfully parodying award show culture, flamboyant "Special Correspondent" Ryan Hinds probed the night's guests for sex and fashion dishing.

The commemorative 5th-year anniversary FPA trophy, an honest-to-goodness detachable NJoystainless steel dildo, was decadent and functional but extremely difficult for American winners to explain at customs.

Not surprisingly, the event's special guests Shine Louise Houston, April Flores, Tristan Taormino, andNica Noelle were the night's big winners. The night preceding the awards, much of the same crowd had gathered at the Bloor Cinema for the Provocative.Public/Porn preview of some nominated scenes directed by or featuring these artists. An illuminating panel discussion rounded out the night.

BBW muse and starlet Flores accepted the Deliciously Diverse Cast award for her husband Carlos Batts's film Dangerous Curves. A crowd favorite for her sex appeal and effusive earnestness, she later returned to the stage with an exuberant, "This is fucking awesome!" to accept the Heartthrob of the Year honor.

Afterwards, Flores gushed, "Toronto was absolutely amazing! There was such a supportive, celebratory, electric energy flowing through the air. I have never been surrounded by such positivity at any other porn-related event—or any other event, for that matter. It was truly magical to have so many like-minded people come together from many different parts of the world and just celebrate our work, diversity, and message. I keep saying that I wish we could all live and work together. If that could happen, the world would shift from the power we would radiate together."

Houston took home the Viewer's Choice Award based on a screening of a scene from her websiteCrash Pad Series in which the cisgendered male Mickey Mod sucks the butch Sid Blakovich's strap-on cock. She was also honored with the Visionary Award for challenging notions of what constitutes queer sex and setting a high bar for quality and artistry. Over the years Houston has garnered a record total of eight FPAs, making her a sort of Feminist Porn Meryl Streep!

Noelle's The Deviant collected the award for Sexiest Straight movie, reminding us that heterosexual LA-produced films can be feminist too!

Winner of the Smutty Schoolteacher Award for her work on the Expert Guide to Anal Pleasure for Men, Taormino earned the mantle of Trailblazer for 10 years of sex educational filmmaking and advocacy.

Tobi Hill-Meyer accepted the first-ever Emerging Filmmaker Award, which honors and provides a scholarship to assist promising artists in getting their first projects off the ground. Before she even knew she had won the award, Hill-Meyer was making a name for herself at the Provocative.Public/Porn event, hawking her first DVD, Doing It Ourselves: The Trans Women Porn Project, out of her backpack.

There wasn't a dry eye in the house when Jiz Lee was named Boundary Breaker of the Year, tearfully proclaiming that porn was the first place she felt accepted for her genderqueer identity. A common thread among the night's celebrated filmmakers was a sense of urgency to create images that represented a part of their sexual identity that had been marginalized, whether it be female orgasms, trans identity, diverse bodies, or sexual health and technique. The night's atmosphere of bold celebration illustrated a growing force of pride in and recognition for their efforts.