Homophobic gay-for-pay porn stars busted for first degree murder charges? That’s so last year: the latest sad tale to come from the porn trenches involves Bryan Charles Kocis, owner of bareback twink porn studio Cobra Video, who was found murdered in his home earlier this week.

As if we needed any more proof that porn and mainstream culture are closer together than ever these days, GAYVN announced this week that famed D-Lister Kathy Griffin will be hosting the 9th Annual GAYVN Awards ceremony to be held in San Francisco on February 24th.

It’s like a porn koan: if performers look like they’re fucking without condoms but are actually wearing them, does it still count as barebacking as far as the fantasy (not to mention the moral and/or health issues) are concerned?

Unlike recent Fridays, we have no right-wing gay sex scandals with which to kick off this week’s roundup of some of our favorite moments from the boyblog scene … unless you count that item about a new tell-all-book by a certain evangelist’s gay escort, which we won’t because (1) we all knew it was coming and (2) we already know that Mr. Preacher Man was a lousy lay. Rest assured, though, that there are plenty more surprises in this week’s Boyblog Booty Call, which you’ll find after the jump.-RM/JD

It looks like that old chestnut about people dying in threes that we mentioned last weekmay be true after all: GAYVN reports that popular performer Rocky died on December 7 at age 26.

We hate to keep being the bearer of bad tidings this week, but maybe that thing about famous people dying in threes applies to the gay porn world as well: Lavender Lounge reports that porn star-turned-producer Andy Dill passed away yesterday after a short illness. He was 38 years old.

If you came of age pornographically during the 80s and 90s like we did, chances are you have fond memories of the work of director Mass Sterling, whose titles including “A Matter Of Size” (1983), “The Bigger The Better” (1984), “Stryker Force” (1987) and “Idol Eyes” (1990) introduced the world to…

We’re not sure what to make of this opportunistic new blog devoted to all things Timothy Boham, aka Marcus Allen, the former gay porn star arrested last month on first degree murder charges: is it crass exploitation at its worst, or a legitimate way of keeping a breathess gay news audience up to…

Was John Waters right when he famously claimed that everyone looks better when they’re under arrest? We may soon get a chance to find out if police catch up with former Studio 2000 exclusive and (evidently now former) Falcon star Marcus Allen, who the Rocky Mountain News reports is wanted for the…

So what kind of hustler (or more to the point, what kind of dick) would be irresistable enough to cause the downfall of a powerful religious leader … and thereby launch the biggest gay sex scandal to hit the news since, well, that whole congressional page incident last month?

Despite the spoiler warning over at our sibling site Defamer today, you probably knew already that not all those wacky situations in “Borat” were completely unscripted—particularly if you watch a lot of gay porn, in which case you might have recognized Borat’s “teenage” “son” as Adrian…

We should probably be using this space to comment upon the importance of voting tomorrow, or maybe a thoughtful analysis of the latest brouhaha involving organized religion and moral hypocrisy … but who can concentrate on such weighty matters when there’s so much hot manflesh out there in blog land to drool over? Catch up with some of our most favorite recent posts from the boyblog scene. We promise we’ll start taking things more seriously again very soon.
-RM/JD

In a surprisingly drastic move for a porn site, Cruising for Sex will shut down its empire for one day on November 7 in an effort to encourage Americans to vote on the day when all 435 House seats, 33 Senate seats, and 36 governorships are up for grabs.

We’ve always felt that shirtless hunks were providing a community service of sorts anyway, but the guys at the Model Home Project have taken their hunkiness to new levels of humanitarianism.

As if merely responding to online personal ads wasn’t hazardous enough these days, we’re especially concerned over news this week that in some parts of the world posting one yourself can earn you jail time as well.

It may be only September, but as far as we’re concerned Santa came early this year with the news that Marc Williams will team up with Jason Tiya for an upcoming production, as announced on Williams’…

A recent survey by the New York City Health Department has come up with some very (bi-)curious findings. Almost 10 percent of the men surveyed who identify as being “straight” also reported to having had sex with at least one man in the last year.

Porn auteur, bon vivant, and international good-will ambassador Michael Lucas returned from his much-commented upon trip to Israel this week where he performed a live sex show for the benefit of gay troops in a Tel Aviv nightclub, visited border sites where some of the Recent Unpleasantness has…

After a sold-out screening at the Melbourne Underground Film Festival, where it won Best Documentary, the Comstock Films flick “Damon and Hunter” was to be shown at QueerDOC, the world’s largest gay and lesbian film festival held this September in Sydney.

There are many things one could accuse Michael Lucas of, but being at a loss for words isn’t usually one of them. So why haven’t we heard anything from New York’s king of porn himself about (1) the lawsuit against Lucas Entertainment brought by Owen Hawk’s Dark Alley Media this week regarding a botched distribution deal and (2) the dramatic resignation of freakishly-endowed Chad Hunt from his company? Apparently, the latter case also has something to do with a third party: up and coming porn pup Ben Andrews, who we introduced you to a few weeks ago and who will star with Hunt in the upcoming “Encounters: Flash Point”. But their onscreen pairing is only part of the story. Read on …