And the results are in...The 2007 AVN Award winners are....

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Best All-Girl Series – Erocktavision (Dana Dane Productions / Pulse)


Best Ethnic-Themed Release – Black- Tales from the Darkside (Darkside Entertainment)

Best Interracial Series – My Hot Wife Is Fucking Blackzilla (Hush Hush Entertainment/Digital Sin)

Best Retail Website – Rentals - WantedList.com


Best Specialty Release – Other Genre – Horny Hairy Girls 22 (Rodnievision/Exquisite Multimedia)

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* overlooked is the best all-girl series today, IMO is easily
Viv Thomas' LEZLOVE VIDEO series:
( see Office Girls, Butterfly, Teenage Seduction, Pink Velvet,
Confessions of a Makeup Artist, Searching for Silvera, etc.)

* Tailz from the Darkside was a very fun one and one of my
favorites this past year.

* Glad to see Rodney Moore win one at last after countless
nasty-good video releases, his Hairy Girls series is one
of my favorites , ..now i wanna see my boy
Robert Hill start getting some recognition after so many
good shemales films

* I luuuvv the Blackzilla series !

* just started to rent online myself and interesting to
find my favorite WantedList.com the big winner ,
hell i didn't know online renting could be considered
AVN award winning material.


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I wrote a blog article on the AVN winner at http://www.grooby.com if anyone is interested.
seanchai

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Originally Posted by seanchai

I think it's a great and brave choice.

The award is "Transsexual Performer" not "Transsexual MtF Perfomer". Buck has appeared in many films with some of our favourite TS stars - and I'm sure those models think Buck is deserving of the award.

I'll give myself an ice-cream for promoting Buck in 2003 and being the first mainstream TS site to feature him and his website.

Congratulations Buck - I hope your getting a big kick out of this - it's brought a smile to my Sunday.
seanchai

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Sorry...seanchai!!!!! I could give a shit less, what Buck has or has not been in. I still say the selection was a bad one. You don't have to agree, that doesn't matter, either! :crap :thumbsdown :violin

What Bearded-1 observes is so true. I mean, today in most bookstores there are actually more than the two or three tattered copies of TS videos of only a few years ago. Progress has been definitely made in the TS category! Hoorah!



:)

Congrats to my buddy Buck :)

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Originally Posted by CORVETTEDUDE

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Originally Posted by seanchai

I think it's a great and brave choice.

The award is "Transsexual Performer" not "Transsexual MtF Perfomer". Buck has appeared in many films with some of our favourite TS stars - and I'm sure those models think Buck is deserving of the award.

I'll give myself an ice-cream for promoting Buck in 2003 and being the first mainstream TS site to feature him and his website.

Congratulations Buck - I hope your getting a big kick out of this - it's brought a smile to my Sunday.
seanchai

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Sorry...seanchai!!!!! I could give a shit less, what Buck has or has not been in. I still say the selection was a bad one. You don't have to agree, that doesn't matter, either! :crap :thumbsdown :violin

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No need to cry about it - I didn't see your name on the nominations?

seanchai

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Originally Posted by Realgirls4me

What Bearded-1 observes is so true. I mean, today in most bookstores there are actually more than the two or three tattered copies of TS videos of only a few years ago. Progress has been definitely made in the TS category! Hoorah!



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OK fine. we'll see how many tranny websites fold
and go under when they completely convert
to man-pie features.
then we'll compare the " progress " of it all.
Yeeepeee!

My take on it is this... This is no different than lumping male and female performers together into one Performer of the Year award. Furthermore, it opens up more ridiculous possibilities. Just because the award didn't say "M2F Transsexual Performer of the Year" doesn't mean that wasn't implied. Just like their Male Performer of the Year doesn't say Male Human Performer of the Year... It leaves an openning for a great Male Horse Performer or Male Dog Performer or some other riduculousness. What if female performers started injecting their Vivid and Wicked lesbian scenes into GayVN. By definition, it is gay sex. The award shouldn't have to say Best Gay Male on Male Sex Act Between Two Legitimately Gay Males, it should be implied.

Obviously, M2F and F2M are two totally different performance types. How can you compare the best female performer to the best male performer when one is doing double and triple penetrations and the other has to keep a hard cock for hours and hours through numerous cuts, positions, etc? I don't think you can compare the two. I know that Buck's stuff sells pretty well and he clearly has a fan base, but it really makes no sense. It does feel to me a bit like AVN is mocking the genre.

AVN has recently done things such as remove TS lines from the Specialty Rentals Charts. They have also added a whole bunch of new awards for all the other specialty areas since TS stuff has really owned this category for years. Best Hairy Twat DVD, Best Fat Girl DVD, etc... It's becoming even more silly. Just give everyone their own award to shut them up.

Finally, Danielle had wanted to work with Buck before he worked with any other TS and I advised her against it based upon what I regard as the "freak show" factor. I remember Foxxy Angel fucking a midget in some pictures. People aren't getting into your stuff because it's hot necessarily, but because it's strange. It's like a bad car wreck and everyone wants to rubber neck. No I am not insulting Buck with that statement. It has nothing to do with Buck. It just has to do with the pairing and it's bizarre factor. Buck isn't a freak and neither are we (MtF TS), so why should we be creating product that is marketed as freak show or odd. Because yes, when people see beautiful, voluptuous Allanah Starr take out her shecock and stick it into a man's pussy, it's wierd.

I do congratulate Buck, and perhaps he is a great performer. In fact, it is completely and totally impossible to dislike the guy since he is so friendly and articulate. However, I don't really agree with him being part of the same category. Being a peer for the same award with someone named Buck does take some of the glamour away.

I ran a poll on my Yahoo Group that got almost 450 responses and Danielle was a 2-1 favorite over the next closest vote getter. This should have been her year in my opinion. I feel it is unfortunate that the folks at AVN chose this year to make a statement. Whatever that might be.

I also am so completely happy that I was not nominated this year so I can speak my mind on the topic without people telling me I am jealous or hateful. I am neither. I simply have an opinion. I think it's retarded to compete with men for the same award.

Diesel - Man with a Pussy - for Transsexual Performer of the Year 2008

http://shop.transsexual.sex-supersto...d/2018247C.jpg

Vicki

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Originally Posted by tsluva

OK fine. we'll see how many tranny websites fold
and go under when they completely convert
to man-pie features.
then we'll compare the " progress " of it all.
Yeeepeee!

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Huh? What, pray tell, are you talking about?

All I was trying to say is that the TS world is not only being recognized at the AVN Awards, whether one agrees with their nominations or not, but also on the shelves of bookstores and DVD vendors inside and outside of cyberspace. Can anyone deny that?

So what are you talking about again? Clarify.


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Excellent post, Vicki - well done.

AVN has always mocked our industry. AVNonline done an article on the TS porn genre recently and despite the writer stating how big it was, they refused to run it as a cover feature because "trannys don't sell" ?

I'll take back my statement on how brave it was for AVN to give the award to Buck and re-state, that it was "grandstanding".

Fact, remains that until they opened an eligable category for him - where would he go - he is a transsexual and I stand by the fact that he is a transsexual and won in the "Best Transexual" category. Implying that it's MtoF TS, isn't good enough and this has proved it.

Maybe AVN reads this board and got scared about the speaches other nominees might state? Oh, I forgot, the TS performer award doesn't even get to collect the award.

Still well done Buck!
seanchai