Report from the Feminist Porn Awards 2011

The news is true! Within 6 months of launching, Queer Porn Tv was honored with a Feminist Porn Award buttplug trophy for Hottest Website!

We were truly honored not only to be recognized for our hard work, but to be in the great company of the other honorees – Sophia Delancey, representing for Art of the Blowjob, April Flores accepting on behalf of Kelly Shibari’s ground-breaking BBW BDSM site Padded Kink (for which Courtney has performed), and Shine Louise Houston, our local mentor and friend, for her new masculinity site Heavenly Spire.

Toronto sure shows its visitors a wild time. I got to stay with my new best friend, the extremely talented Maxwell Lander, who shot some appropriately faggy portraits of me the morning of my flight home. Another highlight was soaking and steaming with the stars at the Aslan Leather Switch party swanky spa sex club. And the awards themselves were entertaining, glamourous, and uplifting!

This was my second consecutive year at the FPAs. It was wonderful to see old Torontian pals Drew Deveaux (2011’s much-deserved Heartthrob of the Year!) as well as friends from all over the world like Carlos Batts, Sophia St James Nic Switch Strap-On Jo Lux Alptraum and Judy Minx. I got the chance to rub elbows and make friends with folks whose work I’ve admired from afar, like Cheryl Dunye and Bobbi Starr.

And of course I worked my ass off, shooting future scenes for QPTV (with some very surprising results!).

Queer Porn Tv was born at the FPA’s last year, when Courtney’s and my speculations about starting a new hardcore video site became reality. Saturated in conversations with the world’s leaders in feminist thought and sex positive media making, we put our DIY money where our mouths were (ahem). With a Flip Cam, a french porn star, some piss, and a friend’s apartment (and sauna!), our dream of creating the filthiest sex positive porno site on the internet became reality! Since then QPTV has released 18 ground-breaking news-making scenes with a hard-drive busting backlog. We’ve also created the world’s first queer tube site, hooked up with Smitten Kitten to create one-of-a-kind sex ed videos, and thrown a helluva party or two.

Thus to be recognized a year later by the same institution that inspired us seemed appropriate and also incredibly flattering.

Thank you Good For Her, thank you Toronto community, thank you international community, thank you to feminist pornographers everywhere (and those that love them)!!

XO

Tina

Please enjoy my acceptance speech (along with the other website winners), with Judy Minx standing in for Courtney: