Miss Lagsalot and Maxxx Peters teamed up to take over Toronto last weekend and to take in the sights and sexy sounds of the 6th Annual Good For Her Feminist Porn Awards while they were at it! The WHACK! staph degenerates thought they’d take the land north of the border by surprise, but were surprised to find themselves right at home amongst freaks, geeks, and perverts from around the world! They apologize for the low-quality photography: the fancy cameras were in use elsewhere over the weekend by the rest of the WHACK! crew.
The CN Tower: Massive, Space-Agey, and Totally Pointless
Their first surprise? The Feminist Porn Awards were held in a church. No, really. Hardcore porn clips, boylesque dancing, and jokes about anal sex all took place on a stage placed exactly where the altar of the Berkeley Church used to be. It’s now the Berkeley Heritage Events center, but it sure still looked like a place of worship to us. Just, this time, we were worshiping wangs and woman-parts. We could dig that!
The 6th Annual Good for Her Feminist Porn Awards
Heavy hitters from the world of Wankometry were in attendance, even in the frigid Canadian night. Some of our favorites? The stunning-as-always April Flores and director Carlos Batts.
April Flores and Carlos Batts
April Flores accepting an award for Kelly Shibari
April was excited to accept an Honoured Website award for Kelly Shibari’s website PaddedKink.com, and to present the “Heartthrob of the Year” award (which went to Drew Deveaux, by the way).
The Raffle Prize Table: Way Better Than Your Average County Fair
Lags wasted no time in seeking out the creamiest of the crop: Lux Alptraum of Fleshbot and the infamously beautiful Bobbi Starr were both on hand!
Lux Alptraum, Miss Lagsalot, and Bobbi Starr
Lux later presented the awards for Hottest Lesbian Feature (which went to Lost by Kathryne Annelle) and Hottest Kink Movie (Tristan Taormino’s Rough Sex II).
Lux Alptraum of Fleshbot presenting an award
Tristan Taormino accepted the Hottest Kink Movie award for her film Rough Sex II, presented the awards for Best Bi Movie (Sex Experiments by Anna Span) and Steamiest Romantic Movie (A Little Part of Me by James Avalon), and was generally everywhere all night!
Tristan is always smiling! I would too if I had that many awards...
Bobbi Starr, perhaps the most famous person in the room, accepted the award for Steamiest Romantic Movie on behalf of James Avalon. Bobbi starred in the winner, A Little Piece of Me.
Bobbi Starr is too beautiful. We HAD to take a slightly-unflattering picture to make ourselves feel better.
The awards trophies given out by Toronto-based sex toy shop and educational center Good For Her were beautiful glass butt-plugs from Love Style. Maxxx and Lags came across this one sitting unattended and, miraculously, managed to NOT steal it.
You'll be proud to hear that Maxxx and Lags managed NOT to steal this award left lying around
Four members of Toronto’s only all-male burlesque troupe, Boylesque, performed to the cheers of the horny crowd!
Another highlight of the evening was the smiling and sexy presence of Lags’ porn crush, the stunning Jiz Lee. Jiz was nominated for twelve awards that night, having taken home the Boundary Breaker of the Year award last year.
Jiz Lee and Ryan G.
Jiz Lee and Shine Louise Houston of Pink & White Productions
Tina Horn and a friend accepted Courtney Trouble’s award for Most Tantalizing Trans Movie (for Billy Castro Does the Mission) with a beautiful and inspiring letter from Courtney herself, who was not in attendance.
Tina Horn and a friend accept an award for Courtney Trouble
Lags was overly excited to meet Sophia St. James, and may have gotten a little sycophantic about it. Oh well, this picture came out nicely anyway, and we don’t think Sophia was TOO freaked out.
Lags and Sophia St. James
Sophia was awarded an honourable mention (don’t you just love how the Canooks put “u”s in everything like they’re really British?) for her movie, Twisted Getaway.
The one and only Sophia St. James
Lags was overjoyed that her friend and uber-delicious queer performer Drew Deveaux won the coveted Heartthrob of the Year award!
Lags and Drew Deveaux: went for "fierce," decided to settle for "drunk"
Drew Deveaux accepting her "Heartthrob of the Year" award
Drew Deveaux hugging her "Heartthrob of the Year" award!
Please forgive Lags for this awfully-taken photo of Lee Roy Myers accepting the Honourable Mention Award for Lily Cade’s Art School Dykes. As you might have guessed, she was getting drunker as the night wore on.
Please forgive this badly-taken photo of Lee Roy Myers. Lags was drunk.
Sophie Delancey, PR wizard for our cutest columnist, Camille Crimson, accepted an award for ArtOfBlowjob.com on her behalf.
Sophie Delancey accepts an award for Camille Crimson
Newly “out” pornographer Jaiya took home the Smutty Schoolteacher Award for Sex Education for her movie Oral Sex for Couples.
Jaiya accepts her award for "Best Educational Film"
Jaiya shows off her award for "Best Educational Film"!
And Canadian queen Fluffy Souffle pretty much made our night. She presented awards for the Sexiest Straight Movie (An Open Invitation: A Real Swingers Party in San Francisco) and Most Tantalizing Trans Movie (Billy Castro Does the Mission).
Fluffy Souffle got on stage...
...and got "authentic."
For serious, you guys, next year, we will accept NO excuses for all you fapping fiends. We expect you to all be at the Feminist Porn Awards in Toronto. You won’t find a better awards ceremony at a better location with better entertainment or a better bar (in a CHURCH!) anywhere. Queers, queens, cross-dressers, dykes, fags, trans hotties, cis sexiness, pornographers, latex lovers, transvestites, piercings, platforms, feathers, sparkles, sequins, and booze for everyone… what more could you want? Oh, porn? On a big screen? In a church? Got that, too.