Page 44 - AVN March 2018

FEATURE | GAYVN AWARDS
FEATURE | By Brady Jansen
which got wider after his pairing with Austin Wolf in Hot House’s Skuff: Rough
Trade 1 won Best Fetish Scene.
“I don’t know if you’ve seen the scene, but I came like four times … Austin, not
only is he hot, but he’s really an amazing guy. Thank you to everyone at the Falcon
[Studios] Group for letting me be a part of them. Nick [Foxx], thank you do
much, this really was a great scene—anything that you make is incredible. I have
nothing else to sat or my mascara is gonna run,” he said before heading backstage,
where he shared more.
Adam Russo was short but sweet accepting his Fan Award for Favorite Daddy
(“I just wanna thank you. Wow…you know, I just turned 50 this year … fuck it!
I’ve worked with quite a few of you, that’s all I have to say, thank you again!”),
while backstage, Max Carter thanked his fans for propelling him to the Fan Award
for Best Social Media Star—and Helix for making all the magic happen (“This feels
amazing … it’s just having big fans who are devoted to voting and being a part of
our lives every day … we’ve got the hottest guys, the youngest guys and everybody
motivated to perform and be at the top of the industry”).
Brent Corrigan was another big winner, taking the Best Actor prize for his
passion project Ultra Fan.
“No one does anything alone, so … mr. Pam, NakedSword and everyone who
made this happen, because I put a lot of myself—like, real self—into this, and let’s
all be honest, we all really fucking need an ultra fan right now. It’s a really dark
film, but there’s so much truth in that. As they say, do what you know, and I know
this. I love this … and this tonight is the greatest I’ve ever seen … I just wanna do
more.”
Other big winners included the towering Michael Roman, who accepted the
Best Bear Scene award for his work with Daymin Voss and Fernando Del Rio
in Raging Stallion’s Beards, Bulges & Ballsacks, directed by Steve Cruz, and Colby
Jansen—the first to arrive on the red carpet—for the Favorite Bear Fan Award.
The star-studded event started off with a quickly building red carpet line that
took nearly 80 minutes to finish as charismatic CockyBoy Liam Riley interviewed
arrivals (“What happens in Vegas…” he started before final arrival Shangela
finished “…ends up on the Internet!”), while the show started with a moment
of silence for five industry icons lost last year (Jim French, Chuck Renslow, Max
Schutler, John Travis and Michael Zen).
That was followed by an opening video (drawing frequent audience laughs) that
put Shangela through a porn-hosting boot camp—much to the chagrin of jealous
peer LaRue, who dishes out orders to office “slut boy” Wesley Woods. Shangela
was joined by a bevy of top talent as she went through language training (“The
many uses of ‘Fuck yeah’” from Riley and Fellington), took master/sub lessons
from Trenton Ducati, and got in some gym time with the likes of a Shake Weight-
using Zevran and Brandt (“I bench press two twinks”) before finding the secret
sauce with JJ Knight.
The evening then continued at the official After Party sponsored by
BCHomestead.com, Falcon Studios Group and Next Door Studios at Vinyl in the
Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, where attendees and fans mingled among music and
dancing.
Top clockwise from left, Lance Hart on the red carpet, the iWantEmpire.com table, Aubrey Kate and Damien Stone, Brandon
Wilde, the Flirt4Free photo booth. Middle right, red carpet interviewer Liam Riley, host Shangela, AVN CEO Tony Rios. Bottom,
Colby Jansen, Eric Paul Leue and Kristofer Weston. Red carpet photos by JFK/FUBARWebmasters; others by Rick Garcia.44 | AVN.com | 3.18