The Alt Side is the same set of eyes pointed at a different room. For three years they carved out roughly 100 square feet of fashion-lit stillness inside adult industry shows (including the AltStar Expo!), and more than a hundred performers and creators stepped out of the expo noise and onto the same backdrop, to be photographed as who they are rather than what they sell. Kasara Wood and Stellar Loving look amazing on the cover, plus more than 100 more stars inside the pages, including Cubbi Thompson, Rosa Rouge, Romi Rain, Korina Kova, Sabien DeMonia, Ellie Stockholm, Lacey Jayne, Pandora Skye, Nade Nasty, AJ Fresh, Ariel X, FatalGoth, Jessie Lee, Jason Ellis, Rachel Rampage, Nathan Bronson, RinCity, Tigerlilly, Dwella Dwells, Michelle Masque, and a very long list of others. The book is currently photographed and in design and layout now, and the Kickstarter launched today, with rewards running from a seven-dollar e-book to a full portrait session with Amelia G and Forrest Black themselves.

Amelia and Forrest answered the same seven questions for us separately, which seemed like the right approach for two people who have shared a credit line since the nineties and, from what I’ve gathered, do not always see the same thing through the same lens.

The campaign describes 100 square feet of ephemeral stillness in the middle of a porn trade show, which is not a sentence most people would expect to read. Walk us through the practical side of it. How do you build a fashion-lit portrait studio on a convention floor, what does it take to keep it that quiet, and what actually happens in the first thirty seconds after someone steps out of the expo and into your light?

Amelia G: We’ve set up location studios in a lot of different unlikely places. My favorite thing about photography is that it gives permanence to the fleeting, immortalizes the ephemeral. There is a certain energy that a person can have which is situational. A lot of top talent plans their convention outfits months ahead of time and books professional makeup for the actual days of a show. There is the excitement and anticipation of meeting fans and connecting with potential collaborators. There is something genuine to be captured in images there, a spark which would not be the same if shot in a more sterile studio location.

Forrest Black: We love capturing real culture in its natural spaces, and that means getting pretty expert in setting up studio-level equipment in some active, lively spots, often without a lot of extra room to spare. The energy we get is more authentic and there is a certain truth to it. And yes, it takes planning. Before the first AVN show we shot portraits at, I taped out the limited booth dimensions on our dining room floor and tried a few configurations until I felt confident we could get it right. The cool part is that whether it’s a beloved performer at an adult trade show or a stylish punk icon at a dive bar deathrock club, they respond to the audience that often crowds around to see them shine. It’s a show on it’s own, and I don’t think we could shoot that moment any other way.

Every image in The Alt Side is fully dressed, and the campaign puts it plainly: strip away commerce without denying profession. Why was the clothed portrait the right instrument for a book about people known for adult work, and did anyone in front of the backdrop find that surprising, or push back on it, or relax in a way you did not expect?

Amelia G: Much as I love nudity, I am most inspired by individuality. While this series tends to be sexy because the people we photographed are very sexy, I like confronting the viewer with individuality, personality, and unique style.

Forrest Black: The Alt Side Kickstarter does say that, but to me, that’s just to set expectations. This isn’t a coffee table book for people who just want to see impersonal art nudes or whatever. We don’t dress up our subjects either, we capture them as they are. In this case, that’s within the context of sex media industry conventions happening at various Las Vegas casinos that have to comply with strict Gaming Board rules. That creates a bit of tension, but we wanted to capture people with their best foot forward, expressing their own individuality for their fans. There is both strength and vulnerability in that, particularly now that talent needs to run their own career more than ever before.

The record on this project goes back further than the campaign does. Blue Blood was a print magazine fighting distributors in 1992, a website by 1997, and now the two of you are asking people to fund a hardcover in 2026. Each of you had a different reaction to that 1997 move online, at least as Amelia tells it on the campaign page. What does a physical book do for these particular portraits that a modern social media feed cannot, and has your own answer to that question changed over the decades?

Amelia G: I love print. I’ve always loved print. I think it is beautiful that Gen Z is rediscovering physical media, enjoying things which can’t be deleted or changed by capricious corporate overlords.

Forrest Black: A feed is gone in minutes, it’s ephemeral. There were times in the past that I’d buy $25 imported magazines just because they had a handful of beautiful images, the equivalent of what I could probably find in ten minutes on X or Instagram, but I still have those magazines, that bit of culture, that style anchor representing a time and place in the world. But ask me in twenty minutes what I saw on my feed? Honestly, I forgot already, and the pictures were kind of small. The interwebs is good in many ways, but it’s not an ideal replacement for a Tower Records magazine rack. Having a book like this, or any of the ones we’ve created, actually on your coffee table gives a certain cultural context or touch point, not only socially, but personally as well. Algorithmic feeds can make you forget who you are and what you really vibe with.

California Deathrock took fifteen years of pool tables and coatrooms from Los Angeles to San Francisco. The Alt Side took three years of expo floors in Las Vegas. Those are very different rooms and very different clocks. What carried over from the deathrock project, what had to be reinvented, and do the people in this book read to you as descendants of the deathrock kids or as something the scene had not produced before?

Amelia G: We brought similar techniques to both projects. Most of the California Deathrock book was shot on film, but otherwise the lighting and size of the space and camera setup were very similar. In both cases, as in all our work, our perspective tends to be partly social anthropology documentarian and partly embedded community members immortalizing from a place of love.

Forrest Black: The socio-cultural process is very much the same. These are my friends, representing a thread in life. I want to document them with their best foot forward, immersed in their world and shining bright. And yes, there is more crossover in these seemingly disparate worlds than the average person would guess. Maybe that’s just a reflection of our taste and who we choose to shoot, hard to say.

Two photographers, one credit line, thirty-plus years. Inside the handful of minutes a single portrait takes at an expo, who is doing what? And after this long, what is the thing your partner does behind the camera that you still could not do yourself?

Amelia G: I’m sure we could each learn the technical aspects the other does, although there is no need. But there is a certain ineffable rhythm and choice to how we shoot. It is specific and effective and what makes what we do art.

Forrest Black: Amelia and I have always shot together, ever since we picked up the camera to shoot real-life alternative couples fucking the way they really fuck for Blue Blood magazine, back when seeing an alternative person represented in media in any context was incredibly rare. It was her magazine and I was the Art Director, so we both had a stake in the outcome being what looked best on the pages, and that methodology just stuck, artistically and technically. We take the shots we like and then hand the camera back and forth, frequently not knowing which of us took any given picture in the set. We’re just very compatible that way. Sure, we have our little specialties or responsibilities in set-up, like any good team, but we learned it together. I mean, yeah, Amelia might have to stand on a box to get an angle I could easily get, but there isn’t anything she can’t do.

The campaign says every generation builds its own canon of icons outside the institutions that archive culture, and that this book immortalizes a living one. With more than a hundred subjects, how did you decide who belonged in front of the backdrop, and what was the common thread you were actually selecting for, given that the book pointedly includes goth, punk, cosplay, tattoo, neon hair, and a couple of very well-known men alongside the women?

Amelia G: We like people who really own who they are, who are not controlled by conformity. We have to see a certain energy in someone to want to shoot them.

Forrest Black: We both like unique star quality and individuality. I’m not there to just pick the hottest humans or look at a popularity checklist or whatever. Sometimes it shocks people who see who we invite in and who just passes by, but sometimes we just see something, something worth capturing, rather than yet another picture of so-and-so. I think that lets us see them all as people, not commodities. And yes, we’ll always gravitate to the rebels, punks, Gothic iconoclasts. That’s just in line with our taste for the individual, walking their own path with style.

The rewards run all the way from a PDF to somebody getting their own page in the book and a shoot with the two of you. Set the tiers aside for a moment. After three years and more than a hundred sessions, what did the people on that backdrop teach you about self-authored style that you could not have guessed from the outside, and what do you hope a backer who pulls this book off a shelf in 2046 understands about 2026 that they would not get from the internet’s version of the same people?

Amelia G: Because we tend to do this sort of series on communities we are, at least to some extent, a part of, I was not approaching from the outside. Artistically, I want to share my point of view and I very much have a point of view. I am always impressed and happy that there are so many ways for people to express themselves, and independent adult work is currently a fantastic space for nurturing that self-expression.

Forrest Black: I think there is something special about books, particularly as historical records. Someone could take pictures of their town and make a nice book out of it, and then twenty years later, folks are like, OMG, that area looks so different now! Without those records, it all seems to get lost. I love looking through my books and magazines from twenty or thirty years ago, and I still know some of the people in them. Records of culture are important to civilization. Hopefully that resonates for people (or robots) in 2046. Maybe they will pine for a time we were so free, maybe they will laugh at how repressive we were. Who knows. That said, I hope people enjoy it today, and all the years between now and our unknowable future.

Supporting the book will help us make more of them, though, and I’d really like to do that.

Thirty-four years after the first issue of Blue Blood, the two of them are still handing the camera back and forth. The Alt Side is what that habit adds to the record this time. The Kickstarter is set to launch shortly, with California Deathrock available as an add-on and a six-book tier that reaches back through BLT 25 and the rest of the catalog.

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The Alt Side: portraits of alternative style at porn expos is a museum-quality art book of more than a hundred adult performers and creators, photographed fully dressed by Amelia G and Forrest Black in their pop-up fashion-lit studio at the Las Vegas trade shows.

Rewards start at $7 for the e-book and run through the hardcover, archival 11×14 prints, a six-book coffee table collection, your own page in the book, and a portrait session with the photographers.

Bad Dragon

The setup: he’s newly single, apps already lighting up, older-guy charm still fully operational. Bad Dragon leaned into the outback-Australia energy, the newly-unattached dad-bod swagger, the kitchen-in-the-morning scene, and it lands with confidence. The character lore is playful without being ironic about it. That’s harder to pull off than it looks.

Available now in Soft, Medium, and Firm across five sizes (Mini through Extra Large), I got my hands on a Signature colored medium sized in medium firmness, which measures out to 7.8 inch shaft circumference, swelling to 9.3 inches around the knot and measuring up to a stout 6.25 inches in length. Perfect for fans of a good stretch without pushing too deep. This is a good comfortable size for me and I LOVE the thickness just below the knot. A lot of toys taper way too thin in that area, which I find destabilizes the toy in use and doesn’t give me that resting stretch I really enjoy. The pronounced crown of Wrangler‘s head is really hot as well and rubs just the right areas inside.

Wrangler is a perfect companion for anal training and/or preparing yourself for a sizable partner later and it’s great for a seated position while you play online, but may lack the length for ideal strap-on usage (your results may vary.) But, one thing is for sure, the Cattle Dad makes a nice gape. I think it would also be visually great for cam shows and clips, as the base doesn’t cover up all the action and it doesn’t require too much movement in and out.

If you want your toy to arrive with a complete backstory involving bacon, biscuits, and a morning-after smirk: Daddy’s home. Glad to see Bad Dragon still putting genuine narrative craft into the character builds.

The film stars Adalind Gray in her first ensemble showcase alongside Ava Holt, Erica Cherry, Madame Ouija, and Stacy Lynn. Coffins described the goal as “iconic from the ground up, from casting to styling to energy.” Havok called it a statement. Gray was direct about the timing: with what’s happening politically right now, she said, a film that puts these performers front and center in America, unapologetically, felt like exactly the right move.

This is what Amateur Productions does well. The studio treats releases as cultural events, not content drops. The freedom-of-expression framing is baked into every choice here, the 250th anniversary hook, the Independence Day premiere, the full ensemble cast, the press release that reads like a manifesto. None of it is accidental. That is entirely the point.

Pre-sale is running now. America Loves Tgirls is set to premiere July 4 through Amateur Productions platforms and each performer’s individual pages.

Glad to see this one land when it does.

Amateur Productions presents: America Loves Tgirls Adalind Gray’s First All-Trans Gangbang and DVP kicking off the 250th Annivesary with a BANG! Starring: Adalind Gray, Ava Holt, Erica Cherry, Madame Ouija and Stacy Lynn

This is a brand that actually goes to the parades. They marched at Thailand Pride in May, showed up for France Pride on June 27, and have UK Pride on the schedule for July. Long-term commitment to supporting Pride events around the world, not a one-time brand activation. The initiative is ongoing and expanding.

What gives this weight is that Nothosaur has earned the standing to mean it. Multiple AltStar and Bazowie awards for innovative, creative silicone design. This is a brand the industry recognizes for taking their craft seriously, and a brand that has thought about its place in the wider community alongside all the work it puts into the making of things. When that kind of studio says they are building something long-term around showing up for people, you pay attention.

The pride color scheme collection is here if you want to shop the mission. But the Global Pride Initiative is the bigger story: a commitment to presence, to kindness, to the idea that every person deserves dignity and freedom to love, backed up by actually marching. Glad to see it.

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AltStar Convention photos by Clix

These images were shot by Kactus Kamera, also known as Kactus Kutie for her modeling work. Even though she was incredibly booked up with collabs during the AltStar Expo, Kactus made time to take a few quick photos of part of the pool party! She is known for her hyperreal colors and positive energy shooting. She won Best Photographer at last year’s AltStar Awards. You can follow her on Instagram at kactuskamera and kactusthekutie and at kactuskamera and kactusthekutie on X.

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AltStar Expo pool party photos by Kactus Kamera

This June, along with announcing the winners of the AltStar Awards aka AltPorn Awards presented by Bad Dragon, we inducted a few key people into the AltStar Hall of Fame. These are people who have truly changed the shape of alt and made a difference for all creators in the space.

We loved the posts made on socials afterwards and have shared those below as well.

Lily Lane

mslilyxlane writes:

Thank you so much #altstarmagazine #altstarawards for the Hall of Fame recognition this year and the Performer of the Year award back in 2017! I love what I do and it felt so good to get that recognition from my peers

Ps thank you to the lovely @angielum for the hair and face!!!!

#lilyfuckinglane

Kendra James

kendrajamesvip writes:

Omg! I received Hall of Fame last night at the AltStar awards! Thank you so much! #altstarawards #bluebloodmagazine @realameliag @23blackcats

Leo Radvinsky

Thank you to our sponsors and to everyone who came out and looked so gorgeous and stylish. Special thanks to our incredible hosts MC Jeffrey Damnit and Trophy Goddess Malice McMunn. Once again, the AltStar Awards were a wonderful fun night with such a warm glow of community, with a wide variety of beautiful individual styles and everyone cheering for each other!

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AltStar Awards red carpet and party photos by SnakeGod

The 2026 AltStar Awards celebration was truly amazing this year. We want to thank each and every one of you involved, from the companies and makers that support our vision for a greater alternative community to the producers and talented content creators, to all the legions of fans and friends that diligently nominated and voted to support some of the most awesome work we’ve seen. Thank you to everyone who really brought the creativity and fire to your red carpet outfits. You all put so much into every aspect of what you create and we are so proud to help channel that energy into providing a strong and supportive network for all of you to keep creating the fantastic things that you do.

Our spectacular ceremony hosts were once again Jeffrey Damnit as Master of Ceremonies and Malice McMunn as the Trophy Goddess. Once again, the AltStar Awards were a wonderful fun night with such a warm glow of community, with a wide variety of beautiful individual styles and everyone cheering for each other! Our love goes out to all the people who made this week’s festivities truly special. We love that this community is so supportive of one another and we’re here to support everyone who is putting in their best work and we hope we can recognize each and every one of you, as well as give you the tools and network you need to keep doing all the great things you do.

We want to take a moment to thank Bad Dragon, who doesn’t just “present” the event, but really believes in our vision of a positive collaborative and supportive community, rooted in the mutual goal of fostering great creative alternative sexuality and sexy fun expressions of remarkable individuality. Thank you to Platinum sponsor Zinetastic for curating such an interesting assortment of publications and helping us distribute all our own magazines (in print and digital) to all the readers. Thank you to Platinum sponsor Blue Blood for your pioneering work in the alt space and supporting this show since the early days. Thank you to Bizarre Bar Las Vegas for providing such a great venue for the ceremony too! Thank you to Gold sponsors Wandering Bard, Nothosaur, and Dark Asteroid Pretty, and all of the great companies, brands, and creators who also help sponsor this event, and contribute all the fun goodies and giveaways and really helped us grow the awards and expo even more this year and have been vital to the event’s success. We are truly grateful for you all.

The coming days (and likely weeks) will be a torrent of media, from all the fantastic photographers and videographers who helped capture all the action from the entire four days, so definitely watch that altporn-awards-photos tag for red carpet pics and more. Winners and their fans can use our winner badge graphics to celebrate those who took home a trophy.

Congratulations to the winners:

AltStar Awards 2026: Best Webcam Site for Alternative Cams

• ✯MyFreeCams

AltStar Awards 2026: Best AltPorn Membership Site

• ✯Goth Girlfriends

AltStar Awards 2026: Best Premium Social Media Site for Indie Artists

• ✯SextPanther

AltStar Awards 2026: Best Cam Model of the Year

• ✯Kasara Wood

AltStar Awards 2026: Fan Favorite Cam Model of the Year

• ✯Kristie Bish

AltStar Awards 2026: Best Premium Social Media Star

• ✯Elita Grey

AltStar Awards 2026: Best Female Performer of the Year

• ✯Shrooms Q

AltStar Awards 2026: Fan Favorite Female Performer of the Year

• ✯Stephanie Love

AltStar Awards 2026: Best Male Performer of the Year

• ✯BO$$MANE DRE

AltStar Awards 2026: Fan Favorite Male Performer of the Year

• ✯AJ Fresh

AltStar Awards 2026: Best Clip Artist of the Year

• ✯Delilah Cass

AltStar Awards 2026: Best AltPorn Feature Video

• ✯Transpirella: Ariel Demure (Gender X Films)
  Starring: Ariel Demure, Gracie Jane, Jade Venus, Kasey Kei, Avery Lust, Dom Cruise, Haven Rose, Andylynn Payne, Gal Ritchie
• Director: Jim Powers

AltStar Awards 2026: Best Gonzo AltPorn Video

• ✯My Tattoo Girls 6 (Amateur Productions / Alt Erotic)
  Starring: Evilyn Ink, Nikki Zee, Robin Coffins, Taylor Nicole, Autumn Rain, Avery Lust, Madame Ouija, Peach, Sarina Havok
• Director: Robin Coffins

AltStar Awards 2026: Best Inked Clip Artist

• ✯Summer Sinclaire

AltStar Awards 2026: Best Cosplay Clip Artist

• ✯Little Puck

AltStar Awards 2026: Fan Favorite Cosplay Clip Artist

• ✯Rave Kitty

AltStar Awards 2026: Best Toys Clip Artist

• ✯Nikki Jane

AltStar Awards 2026: Fan Favorite Toys Clip Artist

• ✯Alexxx Hart

AltStar Awards 2026: Best Size Queen (Size Royalty)

• ✯CeelCee

The award is graciously sponsored by Wandering Bard.

AltStar Awards 2026: Best Modern Burlesque

• ✯Cervena Fox

AltStar Awards 2026: Best 3D Asset Designer

• ✯Snap Jaw Jai

The award is graciously sponsored by Wandering Bard.

AltStar Awards 2026: Best Sex Toy

• ✯Sydney the Punk Hyena (Bad Dragon)

AltStar Awards 2026: Fan Favorite Sex Toy

• ✯Mage Hand (Wandering Bard)

AltStar Awards 2026: Best Sex Toy Sculpt

• ✯Rakshasa (Wandering Bard)

AltStar Awards 2026: Fan Favorite Sex Toy Sculpt

• ✯Bo the Longma (Bad Dragon)

AltStar Awards 2026: Best Butt Toy

• ✯Siswet’s Tentacle (Hankey’s Toys)

AltStar Awards 2026: Fan Favorite Butt Toy

• ✯Jacob (Paladin Pleasure Sculptors)

AltStar Awards 2026: Best Sex Toy Stroker or Grinder

• ✯Sydney’s Rebel Maw (Bad Dragon)

AltStar Awards 2026: Fan Favorite Sex Toy Stroker or Grinder

• ✯Reyzon (Nothosaur)

AltStar Awards 2026: Best Alternative Erotica Photographer

• ✯Zenvibes

AltStar Awards 2026: Best 420 Cam

• ✯MermaidMiley

AltStar Awards 2026: Fan Favorite 420 Cam

• ✯Babz0nther0x

AltStar Awards 2026: Best Gothic Cam

• ✯Vicki Vampire

AltStar Awards 2026: Best Inked Cam Model

• ✯Slimsaydeee

AltStar Awards 2026: Best Nerd *Metal* Cam

• ✯MollyMayhem

AltStar Awards 2026: Best Cosplay Cam

• ✯RinCity

AltStar Awards 2026: Fan Favorite Cosplay Cam

• ✯Bunni Black

AltStar Awards 2026: Best Punk Cam

• ✯BabeAriel

AltStar Awards 2026: Best Cam Duo

• ✯KinkySubGirl & Liam Idols

AltStar Awards 2026: Best Cam Creativity

• ✯Noah Bensi

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Thank you to our sponsors and to everyone who came out and looked so gorgeous and stylish. Special thanks to our incredible hosts MC Jeffrey Damnit and Trophy Goddess Malice McMunn. Once again, the AltStar Awards were a wonderful fun night with such a warm glow of community, with a wide variety of beautiful individual styles and everyone cheering for each other!

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AltStar Awards red carpet and party photos by Kactus Kamera

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Thank you to our sponsors and to everyone who came out and looked so gorgeous and stylish. Special thanks to our incredible hosts MC Jeffrey Damnit and Trophy Goddess Malice McMunn. Once again, the AltStar Awards were a wonderful fun night with such a warm glow of community, with a wide variety of beautiful individual styles and everyone cheering for each other!

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AltStar Awards red carpet and party photos by Conrad McKinney

The 2026 AltStar Awards will be announced live in person on June 14 at Bizarre Bar in the Downtown Las Vegas Arts District at 1301 S Main St, Las Vegas, NV 89104. Official convention hotel room block has closed, but there is tons of info on the four day long celebration (June 11 & 12 Industry VIP AltStar Expo days, June 13 Community Fan Appreciation Day, June 14 AltStar Awards) at AltStarExpo.com and schedule incoming and tickets to the AltStar Expo and AltStar Awards are still available. (Nominees and press, please use the contact form to get your free Industry VIP ticket code.)

They collaborate with other indie creators in a community-minded way. In fact, the fisting toy CeelCee Dragon’s Unarmed Strike was cast by ShopDad and CeelCee at the 2024 AltStar Expo and AltStar Awards and Wandering Bard stepped up to actually make it into a product.

Not only this, but this year Wandering Bard collaborated with us both to continue last year’s new category to the AltStar Awards, to acknowledge the contributions of 3D Asset Design artists who are such an important part of the indie toy creation process and also to specially recognize Best Size Queen (Size Royalty). We love their attitude and are excited to have their support.

The 2026 AltStar Awards will be announced live in person on June 14 at Bizarre Bar in the Downtown Las Vegas Arts District at 1301 S Main St, Las Vegas, NV 89104. Official convention hotel room block has closed, but there is tons of info on the four day long celebration (June 11 & 12 Industry VIP AltStar Expo days, June 13 Community Fan Appreciation Day, June 14 AltStar Awards) at AltStarExpo.com and schedule incoming and tickets to the AltStar Expo and AltStar Awards are still available. (Nominees and press, please use the contact form to get your free Industry VIP ticket code.)

​Wandering Bard photographed by Rick Garcia at 2025 AltStar Awards

This series was shot at the 2025 AltStar Expo. Before the AltPorn.Net 2025 AltStar Awards presented by Bad Dragon, the AltStar Expo had it going on with, not only exhibitors, but with multiple photographers and videographers creating media with attendees. These images were shot by AltStar Hall of Famer Forrest Black and AltStar and GFY Hall of Famer Amelia G. Regular readers will know you can find their photography work at BlueBlood, BarelyEvil, and GothicSluts, plus approximately every alternative magazine ever published anywhere, all over the world. You can follow them on Instagram @realameliag, @23blackcats, and @WildFleshPhoto and X @AmeliaG and @ForrestBlack. We love the amount of personality they capture in their images.

By the way, Forrest Black and Amelia G set up one of their signature location studios at the AltStar Expo last year and the year before, in the convention days before the AltStar Awards. They will be returning for this year’s AltStar Expo to collaborate on more portraits in our 2026 media room.

If you are in this gallery, please post your pics and tag @AltPornNet @AltStarMag on X! Don’t forget to credit your photographers.

AltStar Expo photos by Forrest Black and Amelia G from BlueBlood

This series was shot at the 2025 AltStar Expo. Before the AltPorn.Net 2025 AltStar Awards presented by Bad Dragon, the AltStar Expo had it going on with, not only exhibitors, but with multiple photographers and videographers creating media with attendees. These images were shot by AltStar Hall of Famer Forrest Black and AltStar and GFY Hall of Famer Amelia G. Regular readers will know you can find their photography work at BlueBlood, BarelyEvil, and GothicSluts, plus approximately every alternative magazine ever published anywhere, all over the world. You can follow them on Instagram @realameliag, @23blackcats, and @WildFleshPhoto and X @AmeliaG and @ForrestBlack. We love the amount of personality they capture in their images.

By the way, Forrest Black and Amelia G set up one of their signature location studios at the AltStar Expo last year and the year before, in the convention days before the AltStar Awards. They will be returning for this year’s AltStar Expo to collaborate on more portraits in our 2026 media room.

If you are in this gallery, please post your pics and tag @AltPornNet @AltStarMag on X! Don’t forget to credit your photographers.

AltStar Expo photos by Forrest Black and Amelia G from BlueBlood

This series was shot at the 2025 AltStar Expo. Before the AltPorn.Net 2025 AltStar Awards presented by Bad Dragon, the AltStar Expo had it going on with, not only exhibitors, but with multiple photographers and videographers creating media with attendees. These images were shot by AltStar Hall of Famer Forrest Black and AltStar and GFY Hall of Famer Amelia G. Regular readers will know you can find their photography work at BlueBlood, BarelyEvil, and GothicSluts, plus approximately every alternative magazine ever published anywhere, all over the world. You can follow them on Instagram @realameliag, @23blackcats, and @WildFleshPhoto and X @AmeliaG and @ForrestBlack. We love the amount of personality they capture in their images.

By the way, Forrest Black and Amelia G set up one of their signature location studios at the AltStar Expo last year and the year before, in the convention days before the AltStar Awards. They will be returning for this year’s AltStar Expo to collaborate on more portraits in our 2026 media room.

If you are in this gallery, please post your pics and tag @AltPornNet @AltStarMag on X! Don’t forget to credit your photographers.

AltStar Expo photos by Forrest Black and Amelia G from BlueBlood

Thank you to our sponsors and to everyone who came out and looked so gorgeous and stylish. Special thanks to our incredible hosts MC Jeffrey Damnit and Trophy Goddess Malice McMunn and our intermission headliner Angel Beau. Such a wonderful fun night with such a warm glow of community!

If you are in this gallery, please post your pics and tag @AltPornNet @AltStarMag on X & #altstarawards everywhere! Don’t forget to credit your photographers.

Please check the AltPorn Awards photos tag to see even more photos from the event!

AltStar Awards nightclub candids pics by Jay’s Playhouse

In addition to three days packed with panels and demos from top industry experts, the AltStar Expo has an exhibitor hall with booths from content and toy brands in the alt space, alongside carefully curated purveyors of everything deliciously alternative, from gothic jewelry to 3d printed kink, and, of course, on the Fan Appreciation Day, tons of wonderful altmodels. Attendees were able to shop for hard-to-find unique toys in person and get information about content creation and marketing and streaming. In addition, a lot of collaborative media was created right on the show floor. Thank you to Wandering Bard, Joystick, BlueBlood, Zinetastic, AltErotic, Gothurbate, Dan Eternal, Sinister Salon, Colorful Cook, Alchemist Echidna, Erotic Sky, Pleasure Print Studios, Paladin Pleasure Sculptors, Pleasure Forge, and everyone else who made the AltStar Expo exhibits and media halls such a fun and interesting success.

These images were shot by Jay’s Playhouse. Highly experienced at photographing red carpets, Jay travels around both the US and the globe, shooting all the big adult awards shows and doing interviews and videos. You can check out his SFW video on YouTube and TONS more photos of adult events at Jay’s Playhouse. You can follow him on Instagram and X.

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Please check the AltPorn Awards photos tag to see even more photos from the event!

AltStar Expo candids pics by Jay’s Playhouse

Thank you to our sponsors and to everyone who came out and looked so gorgeous and stylish. Special thanks to our incredible hosts MC Jeffrey Damnit and Trophy Goddess Malice McMunn and our intermission headliner Angel Beau. Such a wonderful fun night with such a warm glow of community!

If you are in this gallery, please post your pics and tag @AltPornNet @AltStarMag on X & #altstarawards everywhere! Don’t forget to credit your photographers.

Please check the AltPorn Awards photos tag to see even more photos from the event!

AltStar Awards winners circle photos by Jay’s Playhouse

Thank you to our sponsors and to everyone who came out and looked so gorgeous and stylish. Special thanks to our incredible hosts MC Jeffrey Damnit and Trophy Goddess Malice McMunn and our intermission headliner Angel Beau. Such a wonderful fun night with such a warm glow of community!

If you are in this gallery, please post your pics and tag @AltPornNet @AltStarMag on X & #altstarawards everywhere! Don’t forget to credit your photographers.

Please check the AltPorn Awards photos tag to see even more photos from the event!

AltStar Awards red carpet photos by Jay’s Playhouse

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The 2026 AltStar Awards will be announced live in person on June 14 at Bizarre Bar in the Downtown Las Vegas Arts District at 1301 S Main St, Las Vegas, NV 89104. Today is the last day for hotel room block booking, and there is tons of info on the four day long celebration (June 11 & 12 Industry VIP AltStar Expo days, June 13 Community Fan Appreciation Day, June 14 AltStar Awards) at AltStarExpo.com and schedule incoming and tickets to the AltStar Expo and AltStar Awards are still available. (Nominees and press, please use the contact form to get your free Industry VIP ticket code.)

In addition to other cool publications, the platform also has available stock of back issues of the print edition of AltStar, along with some AltStar and AltPorn.Net swag.

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In addition to being a platform for the here and now, Zinetastic is dedicated to preserving the history of the zine revolution and serving the future of publishing and self-expression. We couldn’t be more thrilled to have Zinetastic returning as Platinum Sponsor for this event.

The 2026 AltStar Awards will be announced live in person on June 14 at Bizarre Bar in the Downtown Las Vegas Arts District at 1301 S Main St, Las Vegas, NV 89104. Today is the last day for hotel room block booking, and there is tons of info on the four day long celebration (June 11 & 12 Industry VIP AltStar Expo days, June 13 Community Fan Appreciation Day, June 14 AltStar Awards) at AltStarExpo.com and schedule incoming and tickets to the AltStar Expo and AltStar Awards are still available. (Nominees and press, please use the contact form to get your free Industry VIP ticket code.)

The 2026 AltStar Awards will be announced live in person on June 14 at Bizarre Bar in the Downtown Las Vegas Arts District at 1301 S Main St, Las Vegas, NV 89104. Today is the last day for hotel room block booking, and there is tons of info on the four day long celebration (June 11 & 12 Industry VIP AltStar Expo days, June 13 Community Fan Appreciation Day, June 14 AltStar Awards) at AltStarExpo.com and schedule incoming and tickets to the AltStar Expo and AltStar Awards are still available. (Nominees and press, please use the contact form to get your free Industry VIP ticket code.)

Thank you to our sponsors and to everyone who came out and looked so gorgeous and stylish. Special thanks to our incredible hosts MC Jeffrey Damnit and Trophy Goddess Malice McMunn and our intermission headliner Angel Beau. Such a wonderful fun night with such a warm glow of community!

If you are in this gallery, please post your pics and tag @AltPornNet @AltStarMag on X & #altstarawards everywhere! Don’t forget to credit your photographers.

Please check the AltPorn Awards photos tag to see even more photos from the event! (We really need a new tag to make these findable, but we’ve just been using this one for so long.)

Malice McMunn is an icon in altmodeling. She is an AltStar Hall of Famer, has graced the cover of AltStar Magazine, been in numerous magazines and art books and has appeared in countless music videos, ranging from Ke$ha to DMX to Ministry, in addition to modeling beauty and fashion products for brands like Kat Von D, LashyDoodle, and Killstar. You can find Malice McMunn on social media, sharing dark, macabre and funny memes and photos of her hotness on X and Instagram and her hottest content on OnlyFans. This past year, she went through life-altering surgery and you can still donate to her GoFundMe. She has a vintage media store, called Malice’s Wonderland, inside Wunderkammer in San Pedro at the Port of Los Angeles.

The 2026 AltStar Awards will be announced live in person on June 14 at Bizarre Bar in the Downtown Las Vegas Arts District at 1301 S Main St, Las Vegas, NV 89104. Today is the last day for hotel room block booking, but there is tons of info on the four day long celebration (June 11 & 12 Industry VIP AltStar Expo days, June 13 Community Fan Appreciation Day, June 14 AltStar Awards) at AltStarExpo.com and schedule incoming and tickets to the AltStar Expo and AltStar Awards are still available. (Nominees and press, please use the contact form to get your free Industry VIP ticket code.)

Every year, AltStar Awards winners are selected based on a combination of deliberation by the AltPorn.Net judges panel of editorial and writing staff and votes from fans, models, and producers. You can still vote for your favorite nominees for just a short time longer.

AltPorn.Net has been doing press coverage celebrating alt creativity and the best in alternative erotica, alt.porn, counterculture, subculture, punk, goth, emo, tattooed, and just creatively offbeat sexy cool smut for over two decades and started giving the AltPorn Awards to honor excellence in alt work produced in 2010. In addition to the annual star-packed event, AltPorn.Net produces AltStar Magazine.