In 2006, a new film debuted called “The Crash Pad”. Little did we know that was just the beginning of Shine Louise Houston’s revolutionary brand of unique, cinematic, and authentically queer porn. Five years later, CrashPadSeries.com is going strong and continuing to reveal the fluidity of queer sex. We think five years of The Crash Pad is something to celebrate, and we’re going to do it in a big way. Drum roll please….

For the past few months we’ve been toiling on a brand new, totally rebuilt CrashPadSeries.com. Nothing has changed about our content or how memberships work, but much has changed — and improved — about our presentation and ease of use. Here’s a quick summary of what’s different, with more details below:

• A completely new look.
• A feature-rich homepage that includes a calendar of upcoming episodes and events, along with social media links.
• Improved navigation site-wide, including a unified page for each episode.
• Preview images and clips of every episode for non-members.
• The forums will be retired. Instead there will be a support form at the bottom of each episode and on error pages.
• Our blog is incorporated into the main site, with more frequent posts (including an “open thread” for each episode).

More Than Just a Pretty Face

We’ve cooked up a brand new style that pays homage to Crash Pad’s history while taking our unique aesthetic even further. But the changes aren’t just cosmetic. We’re aiming to make the CrashPadSeries.com homepage a social hub where members and non-members alike can see the latest announcements, see what we’re up to on the blog and Twitter, and check the update schedule to see when the next episode goes live or if any special events (live-streams, for instance!) are coming up. Signed-in members can also watch the latest episode and quickly access the latest updates from the homepage.

The layout of the episode pages has also been updated. In the past, each episode has lived as three separate pages — one for Episodes, one for Downloads, and one for the Behind the Scenes. Everything is now consolidated into one page where members can watch the streaming file, download both Windows and Apple OS formats, see the photo gallery, or click over to the Behind the Scenes interview with the performers. Want to learn more about the stars? Click their name to see their character profile, which includes a list of every episode they’ve starred in so far.

Our Characters page has also been revamped to make it easier to find your favorite Crash Pad stars. You’ll now have control over how characters are sorted — including by the date of their latest update — and how many to view on screen at a time.

Sharing is Caring

Have a friend who isn’t a member yet, but you think they’ll love a particular episode? Think something’s so hot you have to tell the world? Share the link! Non-members will still be able to view the description, list of models, sample photos, and a short preview video for the site. Eventually all our now 122 episodes will EACH have a short preview clip specific to them, giving you a taste of every update.

The Discussion Lives On

The Crash Pad forum was once home to lively discussion about the episodes, the stars, and queer porn in general. They were also a place for users to point out issues with the site and help us keep things running smoothly. But in the past couple years, the discussions have moved. We interact with most of you on Facebook and Twitter now, and major announcements happen on our blog. Meanwhile, support issues are often better handled via email.

While we miss the forum, the discussions we’ve had on social media sites and our blog have been at once more personal and more open. They also foster a greater sense of community, and that’s been part of our goal all along. In terms of support, we can get to the root of problems and find solutions faster via email.

So it’s clear to us the forum has outlived its usefulness, to you and to us. As a result, we’ve decided to close the forum to new posts once the new site launches.

Everything will remain there in archive for you to look back on, but our blog will now be the official location for fans to comment about all things Crash Pad. We’ll begin posting a weekly open thread for each episode, and don’t forget Twitter and Facebook!

There will also be an easy, fast and secure form at the bottom of every episode you can use to contact our support team, and a comprehensive “Contact Us” page. This will ensure the right person sees your message right away, and responds ASAP.

We hope you’re as excited about this as we are!

Watch through the “VoyeurCam” as Shine Louise Houston Films Queer Porn Site CrashPadSeries.com

The popular queer porn website Crash Pad Series has a new voyeur… YOU!

Ever wanted to sit-in on a porn shoot? Fans, film buffs and feminist porn academics across the globe can now log in and observe as award-winning director Shine Louise Houston films installments of the popular queer porn site CrashPadSeries.com, from Pink & White Productions.

Based on the original “Feminist Porn Best Dyke Sex Scene” smash hit “The Crash Pad“, the website carries on the film’s hot sex scenes week after week, with diverse genders and fluid sexualities soaking the camera in all manners of toys, kinks, and tricks. With over 12,600 photos and 245 mobile-compatible Video Episodes and exclusive Behind the Scenes interviews with over 145 models, Crash Pad Series is the largest and most diverse queer porn site on the web. Now, viewers can log on and watch the action unfold in real time through a Level 3 Membership.

Live-shoots attract fans of queer porn stars and Shine Louise Houston, as well as those interested in feminist and queer pornography such as womens’ studies scholars, graduate students, researchers and journalists. At each shoot, a special seat is open for invited guests to observe the shoot and meet the cast and crew in person. On March 10th, the special guests will be a film crew working on a documentary about San Francisco’s sex-positive revolution — then and now! We welcome scholars, filmmakers and journalists to join us for the creation of our unique queer, indie video site.

Images right to left: Ramona Starr and Justine, Nikki Heart, and Dylan Ryan. Ramona Starr and Justine’s photographs courtesy of Wintersong Tashlin; Nikki Heart’s and Dylan Ryan’s images courtesy the models. For more images and information, please contact alliance@crashpadseries.com

 
Our first shoot of the day is a very special couple is shooting with us — new porn producers who will be sharing their first time on video with us! “For Justine & I, this is our first video shoot in front of the camera — we’ve been featured together in print — despite the fact that we’re starting an east-coast feminist queer porn company called Fruit Punch Productions,” Ramona tells us. Justine adds, “We have such a broad range of things we do with one another sexually, everything from pegging to fisting, everything from queer boi sex to dyke sex, it’s hard to say where this shoot will take us, but it will definitely be a feast for the eyes!”

We’re thrilled to be an inspiration to the couple, and even more so that they want to work with us. Ramona says, “I first found out about Shine & Crash Pad Series after watching “Superfreak” — so this shoot is super exciting. I can’t believe I’ve been given this chance to work for CrashPadSeries.com; for years I had assumed my trans status would limit my opportunities in the industry.” Justine agrees, adding: “I’ve been chomping at the bit to work within the burgeoning queer porn industry for some time, but I never thought I’d make it out to the West Coast (although I love SF!) for a shoot. Being able to work for Crash Pad Series is an amazing opportunity, and I’m so grateful to be a part of this! I’m even happier that my partner in life and business, Ramona, and I can do this together.”

Check them out on Facebook, Twitter, and FruitPunchProductions.com.

The afternoon shoot welcomes the return of Crash Pad mega star Dylan Ryan (who appeared in the original 2006 film “The Crash Pad” along with other Pink & White staple performers Syd Blakovich and Jiz Lee) looks forward to initiating new queer porn performer Nikki Hearts, saying “I love shooting with folks for whom it is their first time coming to the Crash Pad. As one of the “originals”, I have an extremely special place in my heart for Crash Pad Series and feel like one of the keepers of the glory, as it were. It’s always fun to introduce a new one into our clan and show them how we do things around here.” She adds, “I don’t yet know exactly what we will do together but it will be good.” Judging by Dylan’s past encounters, we know this to be true! Follow Dylan on Twitter at @thedylanryan and Tumblr at triple-xxx-ploits.tumblr.com.

Who’s the lucky new exploit Dylan will initiate to the Crash Pad? Meet Nikki Hearts: “I’m SO looking forward to working with Crash Pad Series and Shine Louise Houston! I’ve heard nothing but amazing things from other performers, which is great, especially as someone new to the industry. I was first introduced to the site when I was probably 18, I was just starting to get really into the idea of making porn. I was looking for porn that was made by queer people, for queer people, and when a friend showed me Crash Pad Series I had definitely found what I was looking for — a company that was genuinely concerned with making films that promote consent, real sex, and more than one body type. This Crash Pad shoot is especially exciting to me because I have yet to work with such a queer focused company, which was my goal from the beginning!”

Nikki’s thrilled to work with Dylan, adding, “I have total respect for Dylan as an actress. I never really considered that I’d have a chance to work with her personally, so that makes this shoot super exciting!” We’re excited too! Follow Nikki on Twitter, Tumblr, and Facebook.

The live-streaming happens Saturday March 10^th, 2012 at approximately 11AM and 3PM PST.

Level 3 Memberships are $37/month and include full access to the site. Members unable to make the live-streaming event can watch the finished edited episodes to be posted in March. Visit CrashPadSeries.com or for press passes or other information, contact alliance@crashpadseries.com. Crash Pad Series boasts a competitive Affiliate Program of 30% recurring commission for webmasters.

Tags: Ramona Starr, Justine, Dylan Ryan, Nikki Hearts, Crash Pad Series, Shine Louise Houston, Pink and White Productions, Femme, dyke, Transwomen, Queer Porn

About CrashPadSeries.com

CrashPadSeries.com is based on director Shine Louise Houston’s award-winning film “The Crash Pad”, which won Feminist Porn Awards’ Best Dyke Sex Scene. The website continues from where the film left off, portraying a clandestine San Francisco apartment where a voyeuristic landlord (played by Houston herself) supplies keys to the pad’s pleasure-seeking occupants so that she can observe their sexual escapades through hidden cameras.

Nominated 2010 AVNAward’s “Best Alternative Website” and recognized at the 2011 Feminist Porn Awards, the site was created in 2007 and has included professional and first-time performers alike in high-quality video episodes and smart behind the scenes interviews. The site features a diverse cast of amateur and professional porn performers in a variety of pairings that transcend normative gender binaries and sexual orientations. The series has quickly become the top recommended site for audiences seeking high quality feminist porn and authentic queer sexual chemistry. As much of a queer cultural documentary as it is a hot porn destination, episodes from the series are often screened in colleges and universities by sex educators and campus LGBT groups interested in authentic and explicit examples of queer and trans sexuality.

About Pink & White Productions

Founded by Shine Louise Houston in 2005, Pink & White Productions is known for portraying authentic queer desire and fluidity of sexuality and gender in adult cinema. The company’s featured films and projects have screened world-wide, and presented at academic institutions, most recently atStandfordUniversity. Houston has been honored at the PorYes Feminist Porn Awards inBerlin and was notedToronto’s Feminist Porn Awards’ Visionary, as well as Curve Magazine’s Sex Curator. Her work adds representation to queer sexualities, spanning communities of color, gender expression, sexual desire, body politices, BDSM and other marginalized experiences with strikingly beautiful cinematography, humor, and realism. Following the popular best-selling movie “The Crash Pad”, the company’s website CrashPadSeries.com portrays an illustrious San Francisco apartment where queers go to have the best sex of their lives. Houston’s newest site, HeavenlySpire.com explores masculine sexuality in her signature style. For more information about Shine Louise Houston and Pink & White Productions, visit PinkWhite.biz.

HeavenlySpire.com is director Shine Louise Houston’s personal project. Well known for her work in the lesbian and queer porn genres for her work with films such as “The Crash Pad” and the popular membership site CrashPadSeries.com, Shine has turned her gaze towards men in a site about masculine beauty and appreciation. In 2011, HeavenlySpire.com was awarded best website by the Feminist Porn Awards. It has recently re-launched with a mobile platform.

Heavenly Spire’s selection in Porn For Her 3 features Essex, as seen in the trailer below.

With films by Candida Royalle, Tristan Taormino, Shine Louise Houston, Maria Llopis, Signe Baumane, Astrid Glitter, Marianna Beck, Sam Linton, Sandra Godwin, and Petra Joy, this exciting compilation features 15 explicit short films by 9 female porn directors. Her Porn shows us what turns women on. From a hot threesome to female ejaculation – sexual variety, female pleasure and authentic orgasms are the focus of all films. Her Porn is fresh, hot and innovative porn – for women and men who lust after a new kind of erotica – from a female perspective.

For more images and information, please contact alliance@crashpadseries.com

About Pink & White Productions

Founded by Shine Louise Houston in 2005, Pink & White Productions is known for portraying authentic queer desire and fluidity of sexuality and gender in adult cinema. The company’s featured films and projects have screened world-wide, and presented at academic institutions, most recently at Standford University. Houston has been honored at the PorYes Feminist Porn Awards in Berlin and was noted Toronto’s Feminist Porn Awards’ Visionary, as well as Curve Magazine’s Sex Curator. Her work adds representation to queer sexualities, spanning communities of color, gender expression, sexual desire, body politices, BDSM and other marginalized experiences with strikingly beautiful cinematography, humor, and realism. Following the popular best-selling movie “The Crash Pad”, the company’s website CrashPadSeries.com portrays an illustrious San Francisco apartment where queers go to have the best sex of their lives. Houston’s newest site, HeavenlySpire.com explores masculine sexuality in her signature style. For more information about Shine Louise Houston and Pink & White Productions, visit PinkWhite.biz.

Crash Pad Series Volume 6 DVD Screens at Berlin Porn Film Festival!

Episodes from CrashPadSeries.com to screen at Germany’s Premiere Porn Film Festival!

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San Francisco, CA — (October 10th, 2011): Pink & White Production’s 10th DVD release, “Crash Pad Series Volume 6: Wide Open” will screen at the Berlin Porn Film Festival in Germany, October 26-30th, 2011.

Crash Pad Series is based on director Shine Louise Houston’s award-winning film “The Crash Pad”, which won Feminist Porn Awards’ Best Dyke Sex Scene. The website CrashPadSeries.com continues from where the film left off, portraying a clandestine San Francisco apartment where a voyeuristic landlord (played by Houston herself) supplies keys to the pad’s pleasure-seeking occupants so that she can observe their sexual escapades through hidden cameras.

Nominated 2010 AVN Award’s “Best Alternative Website” and recognized at the 2011 Feminist Porn Awards, the site features professional and first-time performers alike in high-quality video episodes and smart behind the scenes interviews. The diverse performers appear in a variety of pairings that transcend normative gender binaries and sexual orientations, causing it to quickly become the top recommended site for audiences seeking high quality feminist porn and authentic queer sexual chemistry. As much of a queer cultural documentary as it is a hot porn destination, episodes from the series are often screened in colleges and universities by sex educators and campus LGBT groups interested in authentic and explicit examples of queer and trans sexuality.

Crash Pad Series’ outstanding episodes are compiled to DVD, with the most recent installment “Crash Pad Series Volume 6: Wide Open”. The movie screens twice in the festival: on Thursday October 27th and again on Sunday October 30th.

Europe is no stranger to Shine Louise Houston’s work; the director was recently awarded at the PorYes Euro Feminist Porn Awards and is a contributor in an upcoming Italian Feminist Porn Anthology. This year, Pink & White Productions star Jiz Lee will be in attendance at the screenings and as a celebrity jury and panelist. More information can be viewed through the festival program.

“Crash Pad Series Volume 6: Wide Open” is directed by Shine Louise Houston and co-directed by Shae. It runs 100 minutes and also includes bonus behind-the-scenes footage, offering interviews with the featured models Princess Donna & Syd Blakovich, Carson & Ray, James Darling & Cyd Loverboy, Tina Horn & Casey Grey, and Jiz Lee & Dylan Ryan.

Retailers in North America and Europe can refer to our wholesale information. For images or interviews with director Shine Louise Houston, please email alliance@crashpadseries.com.

About Pink & White Productions

Founded by Shine Louise Houston in 2005, Pink & White Productions is known for portraying authentic queer desire and fluidity of sexuality and gender in adult cinema. The company’s films have screened world-wide at cultural events and academic institutions, most recently at Stanford University. Houston has been honored at the PorYes Feminist Porn Awards in Berlin and was noted Toronto’s Feminist Porn Awards’ “Visionary”. The director’s work has also received multiple AVN Awards (a mainstream adult ceremony nicknamed the “Oscars of Porn”) and recently Houston was named “Sex Curator” by Curve Magazine, a well-recognized Lesbian publication.

Pink & White’s projects are as intellectual as they are entertaining, as they bring representation to queer sexuality which spans communities of color, gender expression, body politics, BDSM and other marginalized experiences with strikingly beautiful cinematography, humor, and realism. Following the popular best-selling movie “The Crash Pad”, the company’s website CrashPadSeries.com portrays an illustrious San Francisco apartment where queers go to have the best sex of their lives. Houston’s newest site, HeavenlySpire.com explores masculine sexuality in her signature style. For more information about Shine Louise Houston and Pink & White Productions, visit PinkWhite.biz.

The popular queer porn website Crash Pad Series has a new voyeur… YOU!

Ever wanted to sit-in on a porn shoot? Fans, film buffs and feminist porn academics across the globe can now log in and observe as award-winning director Shine Louise Houston films installments of the popular queer porn site CrashPadSeries.com, from Pink & White Productions.

Based on the original “Feminist Porn Best Dyke Sex Scene” smash hit The Crash Pad, the website carries on the film’s hot sex scenes week after week, with diverse genders and fluid sexualities soaking the camera in all manners of toys, kinks, and tricks. With over 12,00o photos and 200 mobile-compatible Video Episodes and exclusive Behind the Scenes interviews with over 120 queer porn models, Crash Pad Series is one of the largest and most diverse queer porn sites on the web. Now, viewers can log on and watch the action unfold in real time through a Level 3 Membership.

Saturday August 13th will stream two shoots. Our first shoot will welcome returning Crash Pad star Vai, who has appeared in Crash Pad Series Volume 2: Unlocked with Dallas, and in a number of other episodes on the site. She will bring her real life partner Joan who will be making a porn debut. The second shoot will feature returning genderqueer star J-Bird (who first appeared on the site with Jiz Lee), and another new face to the Crash Pad, Afrodisiac.

The live-streaming happens Saturday August 13th, 2011 at approximately 11AM and 3PM PST.

Level 3 Memberships are $37/month and includes full access to the site. Members unable to make the live-streaming event can watch the finished edited episodes to be posted in September.

Visit CrashPadSeries.com or for press passes or other information, contact alliance@crashpadseries.com.
Crash Pad Series boasts a competitive Affiliate Program of 30% recurring commission for webmasters.

Attached images: Afrodisiac courtesy of Afrodisiac; J-Bird courtesy Tristan Crane Photography; Vai courtesy CrashPadSeries.com. For more images and information, please contact alliance@crashpadseries.com

About CrashPadSeries.com

CrashPadSeries.com is based on director Shine Louise Houston’s award-winning film “The Crash Pad”, which won Feminist Porn Awards’ Best Dyke Sex Scene. The website continues from where the film left off, portraying a clandestine San Francisco apartment where a voyeuristic landlord (played by Houston herself) supplies keys to the pad’s pleasure-seeking occupants so that she can observe their sexual escapades through hidden cameras.

Nominated 2010 AVN Award’s “Best Alternative Website” and recognized at the 2011 Feminist Porn Awards, the site was created in 2007 and has included professional and first-time performers alike in high-quality video episodes and smart behind the scenes interviews. The site features a diverse cast of amateur and professional porn performers in a variety of pairings that transcend normative gender binaries and sexual orientations. The series has quickly become the top recommended site for audiences seeking high quality feminist porn and authentic queer sexual chemistry. As much of a queer cultural documentary as it is a hot porn destination, episodes from the series are often screened in colleges and universities by sex educators and campus LGBT groups interested in authentic and explicit examples of queer and trans sexuality.

About Pink & White Productions

Founded by Shine Louise Houston in 2005, Pink & White Productions is known for portraying authentic queer desire and fluidity of sexuality and gender in adult cinema. The company’s featured films and projects have screened world-wide, and presented at academic institutions, most recently at Standford University. Houston has been honored at the PorYes Feminist Porn Awards in Berlin and was noted Toronto’s Feminist Porn Awards’ Visionary, as well as Curve Magazine’s Sex Curator. Her work adds representation to queer sexualities, spanning communities of color, gender expression, sexual desire, body politices, BDSM and other marginalized experiences with strikingly beautiful cinematography, humor, and realism. Following the popular best-selling movie “The Crash Pad”, the company’s website CrashPadSeries.com portrays an illustrious San Francisco apartment where queers go to have the best sex of their lives. Houston’s newest site, HeavenlySpire.com explores masculine sexuality in her signature style. For more information about Shine Louise Houston and Pink & White Productions, visit PinkWhite.biz.

An Evening with Shine Louise Houston featuring a Special Clip Show Screening and Director Q&A
Wednesday, September 21st 8pm, $10 @ SF LGBT Center

“There is power in creating images, and for… a woman of color and a queer to take that power… I don’t find it exploitative; I think it’s necessary.”
Shine Louise Houston
Director, Pink & White Productions

Good Vibrations is thrilled to present “Pink and White Delight“, an evening with Shine Louise Houston, founder of Pink and White Productions as a special event in the Independent Erotic Film Festival (IXFF).  Join the filmmaker as she journeys through some of her favorite selections and speaks about creating a sustainable adult entertainment company that exposes the complexities of queer sexual desire.

SF LGBT Center
1800 Market St, San Francisco, CA 94102-6227 * (415) 865-5555

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Pink and White Productions (PinkWhite.biz), award-winning porn production company founded and directed by Shine Louise Houston, produces sexy and exciting images that reflect today’s blurred gender lines and fluid sexualities. From feature films to popular websites, her work portrays authentic sexuality that has been screened globally from film festivals to university/college classrooms and is as hot as it is a culturally significant reflection of queer sex.

Houston’s past projects (The Crash Pad, Superfreak, The Wild Search, CHAMPION: Love Hurts) and popular DVD compilations from CrashPadSeries.com have been recognized year after year by AVN Awards and the Feminist Porn Awards. Houston is an honored director at the European PorYes Awards and is Toronto’s Feminist Porn Awards “Visionary.”

Please help us spread the word and post this listing on event calendars and write about this listing on your blogs. For images or interviews, please email alliance@crashpadseries.com.

In Addition to Shine Louise Houston, also in attendance will be Jiz Lee, Syd Blakovich, and Sophia St. James

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Contact: Camilla Lombard
Events and Publicity Manager
Good Vibrations
(415) 974-8985 ext.201
camillal@goodvibes.com
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Good Vibrations’ Independent Erotic Film Festival Presents
Pink & White Delight: An Evening with Shine Louise Houston
Clip Show Screening and Q&A with Visionary “Crash Pad” Series Director 

SAN FRANCISCO (August 31, 2011):  Good Vibrations is thrilled to present an evening with Shine Louise Houston, founder of Pink & White Productions, on Wednesday, September 21^st at the SF LGBT Center as part of Good Vibrations’ 6^th annual Indie Erotic Film Festival.  Join the filmmaker as she journeys through some of her favorite selections and speaks about creating a sustainable adult entertainment company that exposes the complexities of queer sexual desire.

Pink & White Productions, award-winning porn production company founded and directed by Shine Louise Houston, produces sexy and exciting images that reflect today’s blurred gender lines and fluid sexualities. From feature films to popular websites, her work portrays authentic sexuality that has been screened globally from film festivals to university/college classrooms and is as hot as it is a culturally significant reflection of queer sex.

Houston explains, “There is power in creating images, and for… a woman of color and a queer to take that power… I don’t find it exploitative; I think it’s necessary.”  Houston’s past projects (The Crash Pad, Superfreak, The Wild Search, CHAMPION: Love Hurts) and popular Crash Pad Series DVD volumes have been recognized year after year by AVN Awards and the Feminist Porn Awards. Last year, Houston was honored 2010 Feminist Porn Awards “Visionary.”

Enjoy steamy scenes from her various erotic film projects along with questions moderated by Good Vibrations’ Staff Sexologist Dr. Carol Queen.  DVDs will be available for sale at the event. Following the screening, head over to the Lexington Club for a champagne toast and continued celebration of Shine Louise Houston and Pink & White Productions!

The Good Vibrations’ Independent Erotic Film Festival
Good Vibrations, the trusted Bay Area retailer that takes pride in providing accurate information on sexuality and toys for grown-ups, presents five nights of diverse sexy screenings at venues throughout San Francisco as part of its sixth annual Indie Erotic Film Festival from September 17^th – 22^nd.   With an all-star lineup of thematic screenings, panels, and features leading up to the shorts competition at the Castro Theatre, IXFF celebrates the spectrum of sexuality in this uniquely San Francisco tradition.

The 2011 line-up includes:

• The Golden Years of Porn with Susie Bright: Saturday, September 17th at the Victoria Theatre, 8pm, $12.
• Sunday 9/18 IXFF presents a Night of Lust: Explicit Erotic Shorts by Erika Lust (Spain) at Roxie Cinema.
• Tuesday 9/20 IXFF exalts gay porn with Gay porn panel, clip show, and screening of “Smut Capital of America” at the SF LGBT Center.
• Wednesday 9/21 celebrates lesbian and queer filmmaking with “Pink & White Delight:” an Evening with Shine Louise Houston featuring a Special Clip Show Screening and Director Q&A at the SF LGBT Center.
• Good Vibrations International Short Film Competition hosted by Dr. Carol Queen and Peaches Christ!  Straight, gay, queer, or kinky, you will find it all in 7 minutes or less at the festival finale on 9/22.  Pre-party at 7pm $10, screening at 8pm, $10, at the Castro Theatre.

For tickets and details, visit: GV-IXFF.org.

Like IXFF on Facebook! facebook.com/GoodVibrationsIXFF

Sponsors for IXFF include: Toyfriend, Fun Factory, LELO, XBIZ, Jimmyjane, Vixen Creations, Doc Johnson, SF Bay Guardian, East Bay Express, Bay Area Reporter, Curve Magazine, Me Bath & Body, Leather etc., Eros, Twin Peaks Tavern, Lexington Club, SF Mix Bar, The Sausage Factory, Sliquid, Sir Richards, Evolution Fresh Juice, Hot Cookie, Del Arco Tequila, Dark Garden, St. George Spirits, Digital Playground, and Good Vibrations’ sister company, the award-winning video producers Good Releasing.
About Good Vibrations

Good Vibrations is the premier retailer trusted since 1977 to provide high quality products, education, and information that promotes sexual health, pleasure, and empowerment. We invented the concept of the clean, well-lighted vibrator store and we’re proud to provide a safe and welcoming environment where customers can shop for sex toys, books, movies, and attend workshops. goodvibes.com

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Pink & White Distribution Deal with Europe’s Sexclusivitaeten

Award-winning Filmmaker Shine Louise Houston to Distribute with European Sexclusivitaeten

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San Francisco, CA — (April 25th, 2011): Pink & White Productions, the award-winning porn company founded and directed by Shine Louise Houston, announced today a European distribution deal with Sexclusivitaeten in Berlin, Germany. A feminist enterprise, Sexclusivitaeten is run by Laura Meritt and Ula Stoeckl, President of the Feminist Porn Award Europe PorYes and Pioneer of Feminist Films. The distribution deal furthers the mission of Sexclusivitaeten, which is to support women and people of all genders in exploring and enjoying sexuality.

Pink & White Productions is known for portraying gender-fluidity and authentic queer desire through its film and online projects. Films have screened world-wide and director Shine Louise Houston has been honored at the PorYes Feminist Porn Awards in Berlin and was noted as Feminist Porn Awards’ “Visionary”, as well as Curve Magazine’s Sex Curator, adding authentic representation to queer sexualities that spans marginalized communities of color, gender expression and sexual desire, body politics, BDSM with strikingly beautiful cinematography, humor, and realism. The distribution deal comes at a time of company growth. Among unique endeavors such as Crash Pad Series, Houston’s newest site, Heavenly Spire explores masculine sexuality in her signature style.

European retailers can order Houston’s films through Sexclusivitaeten’s distribution line by calling Tel. (+49) 30 – 693 66 66 or emailing info@sexclusivitaeten.de. Sexclusivitaeten can be found online at sexclusivitaeten.net.

For more information about Pink & White Productions’ Films, paysites (crashpadseries.com, heavenlyspire.com) and its competitive affiliate programs, visit pinkwhite.biz.

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BEST ALTERNATIVE WEBSITE
crashpadseries.com, Pink & White Productions

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 nominations of Best Pro-Am Release for Seven Minutes in Heaven: Coming Out. Dana DeArmond (Superfreak) received several nominations! GoodVibes.com was nominated for Best Online Retailer, and their sister company Good Releasing’s HeartCore Line was nominated for Best New Video Line. Another nominee for Best Alternative Website is Kink.com. We’re thrilled to be in such great company!

Shine Louise Houston Launches Gay/Male Site HeavenlySpire.com!

Well-known Dyke/Queer Porn Director’s New Look at Masculine Sexuality

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — After making a name for herself directing beautifully shot dyke/queer porn, Feminist Porn Awards’ Visionary Director Shine Louise Houston has turned her sharp eye to the gays.

Fleshbot’s Bobby Calamitous writes, “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.” He adds, “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.”

Another fan of Houston’s work, Vivid-Ed director Tristan Taormino touts Houston as “one of the most influential, groundbreaking and talented queer filmmakers of this century.” Advocating that women watch gay porn, Taormino enthusiastically took note of the new site, commenting: “It features a group of ethnically-diverse models and couples, genuine chemistry, and Houston’s signature stunning cinematography.”

By dedicating the site to masculine beauty and sexuality and how it manifests on different bodies, Shine Louise Houston pushes the boundaries of a new visibility in gay porn: HeavenlySpire.com equally casts queer males as it does transsexual men. This inclusion is a rarity in gay male pornography, seen in recent years through the success of AVN Transsexual Performer of the Year Buck Angel, community-focused releases by Trannywood Pictures, and the popularity of trans performers on Houston’s dyke/queer paysite CrashPadSeries.com including Billy Castro, Cyd Loverboy, and James Darling.

HeavenlySpire.com also includes AVN pre-nominated best supporting actor Mickey Mod, Vid Tuesday, Marlo Davis, Steve Trevor, Sven, Essex, Ash, Bos, Tibby, Xavier, Bronc Hockensmith and Deluxxx Dash. Future models slated to join the site include Wolf Hudson and Deviant Kade. Models share an intimate interview where they disclose their personal fantasies, describe their sexuality, turn-ons, and what they physically like about themselves and one another.

While partially inspired by her love for gay male porn, Houston’s vision for HeavenlySpire.com came mainly from within. Says Houston, “Heavenly Spire is a personal project for me. Accepting my own masculinity has really allowed me to feel okay with desire for masculine people. Exploring it on the site really looks at male bodies the way I want to.”

HeavenlySpire.com showcases exclusive content including solo masturbation, couples’ sex with anal and blow jobs, and more viewed through weekly updates of streaming and downloadable videos. The website’s blog features interviews with industry professionals and chronicles events in the San Francisco and online gay community.

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For more information, visit HeavenlySpire.com.

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From The Lesbian Lifestyle:

Crash Pad Series, from director Shine Louise Houston, is changing the face, the body and the soul of porn. This is for anyone who has watched porn and never seen a representation of their own gender in the actors on the screen, or for those who have avoided porn for that reason. In the vast majority (nearly all) of mainstream porn there are only normatively gendered bodies. The Crash Pad Series brings queer sexuality into play in ways I’ve never seen before in porn. With more representations of gender than you can shake a dick at, there’s something for everyone here. Whether you’re lesbian, bisexual, queer, pansexual, gay or straight, you need to experience the Crash Pad for yourself.

What is the Crash Pad? The Crash Pad is a place, an apartment, where people can go to have sex if they have the key. In the videos there is a “Key Master,” who is seen in the episodes to be watching a live feed of the action. This lends a sort of voyeuristic feel to it, which adds an interesting dimension to it. This draws the viewer into the piece in a way that porn doesn’t usually.

There’s a wealth of lesbian porn in the world, but so much of it features women with falsely perfect bodies, acts that are too vanilla or too hardcore and insincere. It’s always too something. Most porn leaves me wanting, but the Crash Pad left me sated. To say that the Crash Pad is hot would be a gross understatement. At each turn I found myself entranced and utterly turned on. I love the variety of gender expression and desires that are portrayed in this collection. The sex acts are diverse as well, ranging from bio-girl on transwoman penetrative sex with a strapon to lesbian sex without a strapon, to masturbation, to bondage and beyond.

I love the fact that you can download all the videos. Once I had done so, I looked forwards to watching an episode now and then as the mood struck. I took my time in carefully selecting an episode, sitting back to enjoy it on full screen and with the volume up. I wanted to hear this porn, I wanted to experience it, which I don’t want with all porn. Sometimes I watch porn on mute with music on instead so I don’t have to listen to forced moans and fake orgasms. There is nothing fake about the moans or orgasms at the Crash Pad. The moans are real, and hot, and the orgasms? Earth shattering and utterly real.

I love that many episodes feature real life couples. Dorian and Joie are one of them, and I love their episode simply because of their intimacy. It’s breathtaking to watch these two make love. Pepper and Trouble are another real life couple, and they’re like firecrackers together. I’m sure there are more, but I’d hate to presume and be wrong. Regardless, this is porn like you’ve never seen porn before. Go look at the Crash Pad Series website and check it out, and consider supporting some amazingly hot queer porn!