September 22, 2010 | Studio Flixxx

More awards for gay porn

The JRL Awards were held this past weekend. If you haven't heard of them before it's because they are brand new for 2010. JRL calls itself  "the official gay adult industry publication," though it is a private company and has not been granted "official" status by any porn association. (The gay porn industry is far too disorganized to support any kind of official association.)

What JRL does do well is take the masses of gay DVDs that are released every month and make sense of them, recommending to resellers which should be promoted and providing sales stats in various categories.

The Awards, which were held at Jewel's Catch One in Los Angeles on Sunday, cover fifty categories. Yes, fifty. One reason is that, unlike the GayVN's- - which take place this Friday in San Francisco -- and Chicago's Grabby's, JRL includes several categories for bareback releases. At last Treasure Island Media will have something to place on its lonely mantle.

Nominees and winners are listed at the JRL website.