Roulette—the new raunchy queer porn film out by Trouble of No Fauxxx that was two years in the making—is an especially ambitious project for a first-time filmmaker. It features seven sexual romps into the alt underground of San Francisco starring gender-bending rebels who break boundaries, have unadulterated hardcore sex and prove that queer culture refuses to be pigeonholed.

Each scene is a distinct vignette with a diverse theme and a sundry cast of characters from real lesbians and dykes, punk rock faggots, and transgender boi toys. You’ll find a bar room gangbang where sexy Rozen Debowe (Crash Pad Series) is slammed on the pool table by Jiz Lee (Lesbian Life- Real Sex San Francisco), Shawn (aka Syd Blakovich from Champion) and Donnie the Bartender with fists, strap-ons and anything else they can find to shove in her (Shooters anyone?). A Burlesque entertainer, Ceci Dolores, gives her real-time girlfriend Kenji a performance she’ll not soon forget. Punk rock faggots Walter Crasshole and his boyfriend Nokolaj get down and dirty on the rooftop proving that girls aren’t the only ones who enjoy lots of foreplay especially when it comes to sucking face… and cocks and armpits too. Milo is a busty chick who swaps strap-on fucking with her transguy Cole, a hardcore switch.

Adding to the depraved debauchery are three solo scenes featuring Trouble in Red Light Special—an artistically edited masturbation scene; Cyd, a FTM transgender who gets himself off with someone else’s dildo in a jock locker room; and Dia, a cat burglar, who splooshes herself with milk from her neighbor’s fridge, making an awful mess.

This film is an impressive directorial debut for Trouble who also shot all the video. It is artistically edited, featuring some great slamming tunes from SF bands Erase Errata, catastrophe and Scream Club that get the party started and keep it going strong. There is plenty of raw fucking and real passion by queer folks featuring a diverse array of body types, genders and persuasions. Extras include a photo gallery and two music videos from the film’s soundtrack. I am definitely looking forward to more alt-porn films by Trouble. I just hope I don’t have to wait another two years!

Where the wheel stops, nobody knows. But one thing is certain: if you are looking for gusty queer alt porn, Roulette is a sure bet. You can purchase No Fauxxx’s Roulette now at http://www.courtneytrouble.com/.

I think Texas Presley is the best porn name I’ve heard all year. There is not a lot of info about her and she is only featured in one photo gallery on the Digital Playground site, but it is one very very hot gallery. I love her little gamine hat and her curvy unashamed body and her enthusiasm. The ink and the piercing blue eyes are nice too.

Okay, I just reminded myself why it is not always a good idea to google hot girls. So I googled Texas Presley. First I saw she had been an extra in Sin City which seemed cool. Then I found an interview with her. On the plus side, she says that the guy she is doing in the Digital Playground shots is named Scott Nails and she looooooooved fucking him and would still like to do him again now that she is retired. Whatever retired means when someone quits a part time job. On the minus side, she said she retired because she was doing a scene with some guy and the guy was being affectionate and she thought that was gross and then she thought it was extra-gross that the guy had done videos with transgendered people. She actually claimed to have vomited from knowing she had a penis in her which had been inside anyone transgendered. Bigots who do porn always seem weird to me, but her mother is country singer Toni Price, so maybe that explains everything.

NoFauxxx pride themselves on being “the longest running queer porn site on the web” (Although a cursory check on the registration date of the clearly queer oriented BadPuppy shows it’s been successfully online since 1995. -Ed) Trouble, the site’s creator, began the site back in 2003 taking photos of herself and her friends and posting them online. NoFauxxx quickly caught on within the alt/queer community as something atypical, diverse, and freakishly outrageous. Fast forward to 2009, NoFauxxx 2.0 has evolved into a social networking porn site with a new site design and both a free and member’s community with many free features. The member’s area features over 139 photosets and 20 videos highlighting queer stars Jiz Lee, Dylan Ryan, Madison Young, Lorelei Lee, Kimberly Kane, Audacia Ray, and Trouble herself. You’ll see lots of diverse alt/queer gender-bending fuckery between boys, girls and transfolk, sporting Mohawks, tattoos, piercings, and strap-ons.

Coinciding with the launch of the new website, Trouble has also been hard at work behind the scenes filming her first full-length alt porn which has been two years in the making. NoFauxxx Roulette (2009) will feature “steaming hot sex scenes that support the existence of the queer sex underground, with authentic and sexually diverse vignettes that uphold feminist and queer political beliefs.”

I remember when your site first launched and what struck me about it (besides the alternative/gender inclusive/queer content) was the name: No “Fauxxx”. Obviously this is a reference to the “fake” quality of mainstream porn. What is your take on mainstream and your Modus operandi, or what you hope to accomplish with NoFauxxx?

I’m not trying to say everything else is fake, but I am trying to say that everything on the site is authentic. There’s really a personality behind the photos, and it’s not just in a model bio or a message board presence. I actually make it a goal to post content that looks personal. I use real settings, real outfits, real couples. I’ve shot porn stars like Lorelei Lee, but the difference between my photos and some other work that she’s done (even though it’s all wonderful!) — I got the chance to take intimate photographs of her in her bedroom, in her favorite outfit, surrounded by the books that have inspired her most in her life. That’s what I’m going for really, an intimacy that could never be read as fake, posed, unreal, or contrived.

How has NF evolved over the years? What have been your challenges and accomplishments? How has this project allowed you to evolve/transform as a sexual individual, an artist, a pornographer? Where do you hope it will lead?

First of all, my photography has gotten waaaay better, and I’ve really learned how to make films over the years. If you see the videos on the site now, you can see how the quality really goes up a small notch in each vignette, and it’s taken a long time to get to the kind of quality you’ll find in Roulette. In a sense, the community has really expanded around me, so where there was once nothing but NoFauxxx, there’s now a whole community surrounding NoFauxxx. I’ve become more interested in making it high art, and I’ve really realized that the site lies somewhere in between “Queer Porn” and “Alt Porn.” — living in between a gay and straight space is hard to navigate, but that’s really where I hope it will lead.

You maintain in your mission statement that NoFauxxx “is the longest running queer porn site on the web”. There are many “girl-girl” and “gay” porn websites on the internet that probably use the same claim. How do you see NoFauxxx as distinct from them in relation to queer/gender politics?

“Girl Girl” is a contrived notion of queerness. I spoke with a company owner who boasts “true lesbians” in his business, and he had the audacity to say to me, “We make sure they’re a little bit bisexual.” And, while bisexuality is certainly a queer notion and bi girls count – the thought of this guy’s testing mechanisms for “real lesbianism” seems a little weak. I think that regardless of whether these “girl/girl” models actually like girls or not, the film is produced by men, with the intention of selling to men who like to watch lesbians.

I think you can be “queer” and be anywhere in the sexuality spectrum, as long as you feel like your sexual identity is somewhere outside the box, and perhaps you just don’t do things the way the world would expect you to as a gay, lesbian, straight, or bisexual.

The word “queer” in relation to “lesbian” and “gay” is an even more unifying word than “GLBT,” because you don’t have to explain your sexuality any further than that unless you feel like it. I think it’s a term used by younger people, certainly people who have transgendered folks in their scenes perhaps because of the complication of calling yourself “lesbian” or “straight” when you date people of varying genders. I believe “queer” also has a very punk rock element to it – we’re more deviant, we’re more dangerous, we’re more exciting, than just being plain old gay or kinky.

Women watch all kinds of porn. But women who identify as lesbians, from my experience at least, find most “girl/girl” porn to be extremely fake. It’s like whoever directed it has absolutely no idea how women fuck each other. Many alt porn sites have the same exact problem when it comes to shooting two girls together. Also, when I was doing girl/girl shows in a peepshow, it translated to men’s ideas of how women fuck in real life – meaning that men are believing this junk. I think that porn has the power to educate people, and that can be enlightening as well as damaging. How many things have you seen in porn where you have thought, “Well, that’s just not right!” Good porn will show you how it’d done right – but porn that was carelessly produced can teach it’s audience that our clits are in the backs of our throats, that lesbians love to show off for men, that all women can take 5 cocks in their asses all at once…. you get the picture.

I think that my site is one of those sites that show the world how people *really* fuck. I’m shooting raw, undirected, unscripted sex – I’m asking my models to show us how it’s really done. I think the end result is hotter both to queer audiences, and straight audiences, when the real is authentic and the chemistry is high.

Why is it important for you to deconstruct typical stereotypes in porn? Do you believe that art (as a vehicle for cultural critique) has the power to effect social change?

When was the last time you had to pick between BBW sex, MILF sex, Gay sex, Public sex, or Black-Dick-Zilla sex in your real, non-porn, you’re-actually-about-to-get-laid sex life? Real sexuality just isn’t thrown into boxes like that, and certainly, the people we are, and the people we’re attracted to, can’t all fit ourselves into those boxes. I think the over-niching of porn is rude to the performers, and I’d prefer that things were set up a little more like mine. I can’t separate my website into “Girls” and “Boys” because there’s some foxes on the site who wouldn’t know which side to pick. I think it’s important to break down gender, race, size, fetish, and orientation stereotypes to create a pornographic world were fat girls can be pin ups, skinny hipster boys can fuck their own asses, and black men can be nice, and not raping somebody’s daughter… Know what I mean? The stereotypes placed on minorities in the porn world is horrible, and I wouldn’t want to work in porn at all if I had to go by those rules.

You mention that NF’s goal is to “uphold queer political beliefs” and “sex-positive theories”. How does porn accomplish this?

Sex positivity has a lot to do with being open with yourself and other’s sexual idiosyncrasies. In that sense, a sex positive porn would be honest and true to the performer and producers sexuality, without creating a stigma or stereotype about the sex being performed. And to me, upholding queer political beliefs in porn means practicing safer sex, showing communication/consent/safewords as a normal part of queer sex, and respecting people’s bodies, gender identities, pronouns, and sexual preferences.

Do you believe that by making sex-positive, gender-queer, diverse sexualities more accessible via the internet, it has changed the way people view typical stereotypes of beauty/sex/gender? Have you seen these views evolve over the years since you first launched NF?

I think it serves as a place where college-aged queers could go and see that they don’t have to be “this or that” to fit into a LGBT system, or the world in general. Also, maybe this would be a question to ask the readers here – has stumbling across my site made you see beauty/sex/gender differently? Over the years that I’ve been doing NoFauxxx, there have been more FTMs [female-to-males] making porn and performing, and many people have started their own queer porn sites.

Much of the content on NF is taken by either yourself or your friends. How has DIY culture changed the porn industry, or has it? Mainstream keeps pumping out the same generic stuff and people still buy it. How can DIY complete with such an overwhelming commercial machine?

Mainstream porn can and always will pump out the same boring shit, but offering up more indie options will undoubtedly bring in our own audience. Once people see DIY porn, watching mainstream porn becomes a different experience–when you can see the different between real and fake.

I would like to talk about your new film: NoFauxxx Roulette. What was the experience like of creating such an ambitious project? What challenges did you face? What did you learn?

Well first off, I have absolutely no formal training in film or editing, so taking this project on was pretty much like enrolling in film school, except I had no teachers. I made plenty of mistakes and had to start over many times. In the end, I think teaching myself how to shoot and edit made Roulette a very unique film – i just don’t do things like everyone else.

I started filming Roulette in early 2007 with no budget. It’s taken me two years to complete, and I still owe money! The budget by far has been the biggest challenge – to keep updating the site and film this movie takes a lot of funds that I just didn’t have. Luckily I’ve been able to just make the movie, and hopefully it will work out in the end. The film is now available for pre-order at: http://www.courtneytrouble.com

There are many women who have become the makers rather than the muses in the porn industry. This is radically different form the 60s and 70s, within the feminist anti-porn movement. How have feminist ideologies changed to support the ability for women to become manufacturers of porn rather than passive pawns of male desire?

2nd wave feminists are our mothers and grandmothers – and naturally – this general of feminists have rebelled. Annie Sprinkle, Nina Hartley, Candida Royalle… these people broke the molds that allowed women to create porn, and watch it more freely, than before.

Do you consider yourself a 3rd wave feminist?

Revolution Girl Style Now!!!!

What artists, pornographers, icons (past and/or present) have inspired you? Who are your mentors?

I love classic photography–Man Ray, Helmut Newton, Robert Mapplethorpe, and current photographers like Nan Goldin, Ellen Von Unwerth, Dave LaChappelle. Jackie Strano and Shar Rednoir’s movies inspired me when I was younger, and now Jackie is someone I go to for film advice on a weekly basis.

Joana Angel just keeps topping herself. I’d certainly like it better if the guys triple teaming her were a lot more punkrock, but watching her lustfully taking on all that cock is a real thrill to be witnessed. According to Burning Angel, their new job requirements involve having to effectively fuck the staff, so I guess we’ll be seeing a few more buff dudes working for the BA. My first though on seeing this was, wow, those stockings are kinda hot, and not , wow, that cock is the size of her fist. This probably means something. Anyway, great full on pedal to the metal hardcore fucking sex from Burning Angel. Rock-n-roll.

We’ve had a crush on the sexy redheaded MistiDawn for quite a while now, so getting to see THIS is really a treat. This isn’t the first time we’ve seen the BurningAngel talent fuck the snot out of their lucky street team members either. What a hot concept, and it’s executed really well too. This is an awesome dirty hot sex scene and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I do have to say, that it’s been a little while since we last mentioned BurningAngel and they have made some adjustments to their site, as we expected, but one thing they added is a bit of a pain. It may be just my taste, but I can’t stand fucking flash viewers for photo galleries. I know they can be all slick and whatnot, but I like to be able to leave a few shots I really like up on the screen while I check out profiles or whatever and the flash stuff can get in the way. I’d like it if it were an option anyway. That minor gripe aside, watching MistiDawn get fucked hard and take that cum all over her mouth has been the highlight of my week.

It’s been a while since we checked in with our friends over at BrokenDollz, but it looks like they have been keeping themselves busy in the meantime. I immediately noticed their hot new update calendar, which makes navigating to all their updates much much easier. I’m really liking the new feature a lot. It clearly shows the three to five updates they do each week, with nice thumbs of the hot girls. I’d like it if the girls name linked to her actual profile page, instead of just that specific set, but it really does help give a sense of what’s new and a good way to get to it.

This fun electro-punkish series of the always entertaining Fedora just posted and it points out one of the aspects of BrokenDollz that we really enjoy. They content is hot and has a very real quality to it. Some of the bigger brand Alt-sites have some very slick content, but these always strike us as more genuinely homey DIY altporn. It’s a bit less self conscious, which means that there will occasionally be some shots that are kind of cringe worthy, but that’s really ok because there is also a sense of intimacy and creative freedom. This is Fedora’s 13th set for BD and she’s clearly not taking herself too seriously. It’s fun and I like the nod to clubby cyber/steampunk, with the idustrial goggles and bright gemstone colors.

Mason Moore has a really nice sleeve and I am a sucker for good ink. She has some less quality, but no less intriguing, work drawn near her lady parts. It says “I ______ Like a Champ” and TKO. I can’t figure out what the verb is though. The idea for the scene she is doing for the Naughty America I Have a Wife theme is that she wants to get with this older guy who is her neighbor. He isn’t gross, but he isn’t appealing either. Mason Moore’s great arm tattoo and beautiful warm smile really make the whole thing nice though.

DigitalPlayground seems to market themselves as just regular porn, but how often do you see Stoya, Katsuni, and BellaDonna having a threesome in a pirate bed? Not nearly often enough is what I say. Stoya is the only one of these specific stars currently on tour promoting Pirates II: Stagnetti’s Revenge, but she has help from Jesse Jane and Jenna Haze. I don’t really like Florida, but it looks like yesterday was the day to party with Stoya in Miami.

We do miss the cool blue and purple hair, but it’s good to see Stoya has kept some of her sexy Goth girl appeal since being signed by DigitalPlayground. I have read several mentions that it was an exclusive signing, but I do still see her pop up with some new stuff on other sites from time to time, so that’s a bit of a puzzle, but regardless it’s exciting to get to see some high quality Stoya fucking and sucking goodness. In this scene she plays a tempting little bad influence that seems to have forgotten her panties. Thank you DigitalPlayground!

Click the pic for a free Stoya gallery and hot video!

The biggest problem MM has, as a site and as a community, is that it exists to assist a bunch of untalented amateurs into deluding themselves into believing that they are going to be big professionals some day. As a result, someone like Fedora gets the short end of the stick because she is actually genuinely trying to do something real and independent.

MM will always support models and photographers listing their more corporate achievements because corporate achievements make them feel successful. Even other people’s corporate achievements make moderators with lackluster personal portfolios feel like they are going to make it big some day. Never mind the fact that major corporations are always happy to mine the desperate wannabe underground for free labor. What do you think powers the music industry?

Fedora is not the first model or photographer to be forced to remove a link to APN. The rule appears to be that corporate credits like Hustler and SuicideGirls and GodsGirls and Playboy will be overlooked. But credits with genuinely independent sites like FedorasBox and BrokenDollz and Blue Blood and BellaVendetta are likely to come under scrutiny. That the scrutiny generally comes from moderators with very limited portfolios is a given. If they spent more time shooting, and less time persecuting and passing judgment on people like Fedora, then maybe they really would become big time professionals some day, just like their delusional fantasies.