Cybersocket Web Awards
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Cybersocket Web Awards are internationally recognized awards for LGBT
LGBT
LGBT is an initialism that collectively refers to "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender" people. In use since the 1990s, the term "LGBT" is an adaptation of the initialism "LGB", which itself started replacing the phrase "gay community" beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s, which many within the...

 websites associated with the adult entertainment industry. Awards include the most notable adult entertainment personality, porn star and gay adult film. Winners are chosen using online voting by members of the public. The annual awards recognize websites for both "Surfer Choice" categories and "Industry Choice" categories. Past winners range from on-line billing companies to pornography blogs. The awards were established in 2000.

Cybersocket was established in 1997 to publish a printed annual LGBT internet directory (the Cybersocket Directory). The two founders, Morgan Sommer and Tim Lutz, were awarded the GayVN Awards
GayVN Awards
The GAYVN Awards are presented annually to honor work done in the gay pornography industry. The awards are sponsored by AVN Magazine, the parent publication of GAYVN Magazine, and continue the recognition for gay pornography which was part of the AVN Awards from 1986–1998.The award recipients...

 Hall of Fame in 2010.

2010 Winners

The following organizations won awards at the awards show on 8 February 2010.

Surfer’s Choice
  • Mobile Site - Grindr.com
  • Massage Site - MassageM4M.com http://www.massagem4m.com
  • Porn Blog - QueerClick.com
  • Novelty Site - Fleshjack.com
  • Amateur Video Site - CockyBoys
    CockyBoys
    Cocky Boys is an award-winning producer of gay internet pornography. Cocky Boys is based in Beverly Hills, California with its current headquarters located in New York City.-History:...

    .com
  • Amateur Webcam Site - BrentEverett.com
  • Asian-Theme Site - JapanBoyz.com
  • Black-Theme Site - ThugSeduction.com
  • Escort Site - Rentboy.com
    Rentboy.com
    Rentboy.com is a commercial social networking site which connects male sex workers and masseurs with potential clients. Its offices are based in Manhattan and CEO Jeff Davids and company director Sean Van Sant act as a public face for the company....

  • European-Theme Site - BelAmiOnline.com
  • Best Live Cam Site - Flirt4Free.com
  • Fetish Site - MenAtPlay.com
  • Free Site - MenOnTheNet.com
  • Hookup Site - Manhunt.net
    Manhunt.net
    MANHUNT.net is a social networking website operated by Online Buddies, Inc., that facilitates same-sex introductions. It is owned by its founders, Jonathan Crutchley and Larry Basile. The site has over 4 million profiles worldwide, over 1 million of which are in the United States...

  • Latin Theme Site - BangBangBoys.com
  • Mega Site - Badpuppy.com
  • New Site - Homoactive.tv
  • Original Content - RandyBlue.com
  • Original Theme Site - Tie: StraightBoysFucking.com and BareAdventures.com

Best Personality

  • 2011 Chi Chi LaRue
    Chi Chi LaRue
    Larry David Paciotti is an American film director of gay, bisexual and straight pornography. He is best known in his drag persona as Chi Chi LaRue and has also directed under the names Lawrence David and Taylor Hudson.- Career :...

  • 2010 Wolf Hudson
    Wolf Hudson
    Wolf Hudson is a Dominican-American male pornographic actor, director and street dancer.-Early life:Wolf Hudson was born on November 24, 1984, in New York, New York, and is of mixed ancestry: French, Afro-Latin American/Dominican descent. Hudson briefly lived in the Dominican Republic in his early...

  • 2009 Cody Cummings
  • 2008 Michael Lucas
    Michael Lucas (director)
    Michael Lucas is an American-Russian-Israeli gay pornographic actor, director, activist, writer and the founder/CEO of Lucas Entertainment, New York's largest gay-adult-film company...


Best Porn Star

  • 2010 Reese Rideout
    Reese Rideout
    -Awards and nominations:* 2007 Weho XXX Awards nominee of Amateur Star of the Year.* 2009 Men winner of Man of the Year.* 2010 Cybersocket Awards winner of Best Porn Star.* 2010 XBIZ Awards Gay Performer of the Year nominee....

  • 2009 Colin O'Neal
  • 2008 Brent Corrigan
    Brent Corrigan
    Sean Paul Lockhart is a model, actor and gay pornographic actor best known under his stage name Brent Corrigan or his pseudonym Fox Ryder. He is best known for his roles in Schoolboy Crush with Brent Everett and Velvet Mafia with Erik Rhodes...

  • 2007 Pierre Fitch
    Pierre Fitch
    Pierre Fitch is a Canadian gay pornography actor, formerly exclusive to Falcon Studios. He is also an entrepreneur, who now works for himself as an actor and producer of video productions. He is currently performing as a DJ, presenting his own mixes through a number of night clubs in Canada, USA...

  • 2006 Zeb Atlas
    Zeb Atlas
    Zeb Atlas is an American male bodybuilder, softcore performer, go-go dancer, personal trainer, model and porn actor.-Biography and career:...

  • 2005 Michael Brandon
  • 2004 Michael Brandon
  • 2003 Matthew Rush
  • 2002 Jeff Palmer
    Jeff Palmer
    Jeff Palmer is a gay pornographic actor who appeared in pornographic films and magazines.-Biography:...

  • 2001 Ken Ryker
    Ken Ryker
    Ken Ryker, born August 17, 1972, in Jeonju, Korea, is the stage name of an American pornographic actor who appeared in gay, straight and bisexual pornographic movies. He was raised in Texas, but now resides in California.-Life and career:...

  • Video Company - HotHouse.com
  • VOD Site - NakedSword.com
  • Voyeur Site - CocoDorm.com
  • Movie of the Year - “Men of Israel” (Lucas Entertainment
    Lucas Entertainment
    Lucas Entertainment is a New York-based gay pornographic studio started by porn star Michael Lucas. It is one of the largest such studios in the world. The studio is known for lavish, big-budget movies, and it contends that its 2006 film Michael Lucas' La Dolce Vita is the most expensive gay porn...

    )


Industry Choice
  • Webmaster Community - XBIZ
    XBIZ
    XBIZ is an American publisher of business news and business information for the adult entertainment industry.In addition to its flagship website, XBIZ publishes two monthly trade magazines, hosts winter and summer exhibition & industry conferences, and facilitates networking among adult online...

    .net
  • Affiliate Program - BuddyProfits.com
  • Video Company - C1R
    C1R
    C1R, founded and also known as Channel 1 Releasing and based in Los Angeles, California, is a major adult film studio and one of the world's largest producers of gay pornography...

    .com (Channel 1 Releasing)
  • Billing Company - CCBill.com
  • Hosting Company - WebAir.com
  • Business Person of the Year - Miranda Leaver, co-founder, Solstice Group Inc. and Men4RentNow.com.
  • Industry Magazine - XBIZ
    XBIZ
    XBIZ is an American publisher of business news and business information for the adult entertainment industry.In addition to its flagship website, XBIZ publishes two monthly trade magazines, hosts winter and summer exhibition & industry conferences, and facilitates networking among adult online...

     World
  • Live Cam - GayImLive.com
  • Content Provider - PrideContent.com
  • White Label - Maleflixxx.tv
  • Company of the Year - Epoch.com

Free Speech Coalition
Free Speech Coalition
The Free Speech Coalition is a non-profit trade association of the pornography and adult entertainment industry in the United States...

Award of Excellence
  • CorbinFisher.com
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