Announcing the launch of a new site, Shine turns the attention this time on masculinity. HeavenlySpire.com is a Shine Louise Houston creation for the purpose of masculine appreciation. The site focuses on masculine beauty and sexuality and how it manifests on different bodies. Following the same vision as Houston’s previous projects HeavelySpire focuses on capturing genuine pleasure with a unique cinematic style. The site portrays cisgender and transmen, in solo and partnered combinations.

HeavenlySpire is updated once a week. There are two levels of memberships. Level one memberships have access to all streaming content and has a monthly cost of &20. Level 2 memberships have access to the streaming content with the option to download and has a monthly cost of $25.

Bobby Calamitous, of Fleshbot.com offers a review of HeavenlySpire.com!

“Yeah, You Make Pretty Awesome Gay Porn—For A Lesbian! Ha!”

Or for anyone, really. After making a name for herself directing hot and beautifully shot dyke and queer porn, Shine Louis Houston has turned her sharp eye to the gays. This stuff makes Sean Cody look like Community Theater.

Heavenly Spire is the newest branch of Shine Louis Houston’s alt-porn empire, and it’s brimming with the sort of cute queer boys you see skateboarding in your city’s downtown areas or chain smoking cigarettes in dive bars or attending Joanna Newsom concerts. These are the sort of alt-gays who are as wily as they are lovable, the sort of guys we feel like we’d date if we were more interesting people.

This fact actually made us sort of skeptical about how well this site would really work. We’ve had our brush with queer theory and its enthusiasts, but nowadays we just feel like sellouts in front of them. Add to that the fact that so much artsy porn is so obsessed with being beautiful that it forgets to be, you know, pornographic, and we imagined ourselves to be in for a seriously boring treat. But Houston’s movies are really incredibly hot. Her cinematography manages to frame those parts of the body that are the most erotic, but in ways that paint beautiful pictures. We’re really into it. Be sure to check out the preview for Leather Daddy Sven. He’s a personal favorite.

- Bobby Calamitous

Lyon-Martin Health Services (lyon-martin.org) is the only free-standing community clinic in California with a specific emphasis on lesbian/bisexual women and transgender health care. Founded in 1979 by a group of medical providers and health activists, Lyon-Martin bridges the gap in sensitive health services available to low-income, uninsured women (primarily lesbians and bisexual women) and transgender people, who have often tended to go longer without routine care because of the difficulty in finding culturally sensitive health providers.

Lyon-martin provides personalized healthcare and support services to women and transgender people who lack access to quality care because of their sexual or gender identity, regardless of their ability to pay.

Pink & White has a connection with Lyon-Martin as we recommend their services for the sexual health of our models. They are also the current benefactor of star Jiz Lee’s fundraiser, Karma Pervs, which will raise money for Lyon-Martin through the month of July.

Feel like walking the SF AIDS Walk?
Register at aidswalk.net/sanfran or over the phone 415-615-WALK.

Shine Louise Houston was be a special guest, along with Nica Noelle, Tristan Taormino, and April Flores. Pink & White stars Jiz Lee, Dylan Ryan, Trucker, Courtney Trouble, and Tina Horn were in attendance. The ceremonies happened April 8th and 9th in Toronto, Ontario and were presented by the awesome Canadian sex toy retailer Good For Her.

Crash Pad Series Volume 5’s scene featuring Shawn & Mickey Mod won Audience Choice Award at Provocative.Public/Porn: The Year’s Best in Feminist Film.

Shine Louise Houston won the “Visionary” award. Pink & White star Jiz Lee was awarded “Boundary Breaker”.

safetyfest 2010 promo! from CUAV on Vimeo.

Bitch Magazine had to say about the event:

Folks in the Bay Area are in for a ten-day treat this month with the community focused Safetyfest, a “celebration of all the fierce ways queer and trans people in the Bay Area stay safe and strut our stuff.” Beginning on April 8th, this cooperative effort will bring together anti-violence artists and activists from groups like Community United Against Violence (CUAV), Mangos With Chili, The Bikery, EL/LA, and the Self-Defense for Self Determination collective to provide innovative workshops and community building eventsfocused on LGBTQ safety. Part fun and part fundraiser, all of the offerings at Safetyfest are either free or sliding scale, and no one will be turned away. [Read More]

If you are in the San Francisco Bay Area, please make it out! Many of the Pink & White family will be at the Feminist Porn Awards in Toronto, so please go and have a great time for us — and win some raffle prizes! We’re donating memberships to CrashPadSeries.com, and we hear that Babeland and Good Vibrations have some goodie bags as well.

Thursday, April 8, 2010 (Note that Safetyfest runs through April 18th!)
7-10 PM
$5-$20, no one turned away for lack of funds
Bench and Bar
510 17th Street, Oakland CA (two blocks from 19th St Oakland BART)

For more info:

Safetyfest 2010

CUAV

Mangos with Chili

Part of Pink & White Productions’  commitment to our queer community includes supporting organizations which promote the health and safety of Sex Workers. (See our “Playing Safe” guide for our models.) In November, we sponsored the NYC Sex Bloggers Calendar (a benefit for Sex Worker Awareness) for the 2nd year. Last month we donated to Lyon Martin Health Services, a local San Francisco clinic that welcomes women and transgender patients. This month, we’re proud to help Belladonna and Kimberly support AIM.

If you’re in LA, please attend and bid on some pretty sweet auction items. If you can’t make the event, consider a donation.

Trailer: QuickTime format • Windows Media Player format (2008, 100 min.)

Cast: August, Stacy Staxxx, Rex, Scarlett Chaos, Red, Cyd Loverboy, Kuma, Julie Warren, Shawn, Mickey Mod

Buy: Blowfish Video

BEST VIDEO FEATURE
Champion: Love Hurts, Pink & White/Blowfish

BEST SOLO SEX SCENE
Dylan Ryan*, Crash Pad Series Vol. 3, Pink & White/Blowfish

BEST NEW WEB STAR
Jiz Lee

We’d also like to congratulate Courtney Trouble (Trouble Royale in Wild Search, Crash Pad Series Vol 1 and her outstanding non-sex role in Champion) for her 2 nominations of Best Soundtrack for Roulette and Speakeasy. Dana DeArmond (Superfreak) received several nominations, including Female Performer of the Year. GoodVibes.com was nominated for Best Online Retailer, and their sister company Good Releasing was nominated for Best New Video Production Company. Between Blowfish Video, Good Releasing and the rising visibility of queer porn, there’s a lot of queer porn being produced and we’re thrilled to be in such great company!

*(Dylan Ryan’s name is sometimes misspelled “Rion”)

Check out Dylan’s Solo at CrashPadSeries.com

Jessie Eaton (Syd Blakovich) is a hotshot jock who can’t let go of her ex-girlfriend, Cathy Summers (Jiz Lee) while making her way into women’s professional Mixed Martial Arts boxing.

Her plans hit a snag when a run in with an old nemesis, Bobby Malone (Javier) blocks her way to the top. To save her career she must throw the match that would surely be her ticket into the professional arena. Even trickier is her attraction to the women she is suppose to beat, Violet Vahn (Dallas) who is Jessie’s toughest opponent inside and outside the ring.

It’s a big lesson in humility and integrity for Jessie as she juggles her relationships and her career. Will she win or will she lose? What does winning and losing mean?

Feminist Porn Awards 2009 Movie of the Year
NOMINATED for 2010 AVN Awards: BEST VIDEO FEATURE!

Trailer: QuickTime format • Windows Media Player format. (2008, 90 min.)

Cast: Syd Blakovich, Dallas, Jiz Lee, Dylan Ryan, Madison Young, Javier, Brooklyn Flaco (non-sex), Trouble Royale (non-sex)

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Trailers

PG-13 Trailer

The film will soon have a website: Champion-movie.com. In the meantime, here’s the Rated PG-13 Trailer for YouTube. Feel free to post it online where you like, and comment!

NC-17 Trailer

QuickTime format • Windows Media Player format. (2008, 90 min.)

Sponsored by Pink & White and Blowfish Video, they attended a number of events in NYC from Sex Worker Literati and the NYC Sex Bloggers Calendar, to a Babeland DVD signing and the Fleshbot Awards.

Audacia Ray’s Sex Worker Literati featured another Pink & White star Dylan Ryan. Sex Worker Literati was on Saturday, November 7 from 7:30PM – 9PM  at Union Docs / 322 Union Ave, Brooklyn NY 11211. For more information: hoshookerscallgirlsrentboys.com.

Pink & White was proud sponsor of the NYC Sex Blogger Calendar (a benefit for Sex Workers Awareness) and to celebrate, Jiz and Syd were at the launch party on Friday, November 6 from 6:30pm – 9:30pm at Fontana’s – 105 Eldridge St. For more information: sexbloggercalendar.com.

Jiz and Syd were at Babeland (Lower East Side: 94 Rivington Street) on Saturday, November 7th 5-7pm, signing DVDs at babeland.com. (Big thanks to Viviane for posting the event on thesexcarnival.com and TheQueerist.com!)

Finally, our own Syd Blakovich was a Fleshbot Award Nominee. This year, Jiz and Syd were invited to be special guests to the event, which is part of Fleshbot’s 6th year anniversary. For more information about the Fleshbot Awards: fleshbot.com.

If the Feminist Porn Awards sound familiar, Shine’s films have received numerous awards at the Canadian Feminist Porn Awards presented by Good For Her, a female-friendly sex toy company in Toronto. This was the first time Europe has had a Feminist Porn Awards event, presented by Sexclusivitäten. Shine was honored as a porn pioneer for her work, along side other notable directors Candida Royalle, Annie Sprinkle, Maria Beatty, and Petra Joy.

Photo: Petra Joy

Photo: www.poryes.de