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NO FAUXXX'S COURTNEY TROUBLE PREMIERS THE FEATURE, "ROULETTE"
A triumph of independent/DIY porn, to benefit Homo A Go Go at the Roxie Theater
San Francisco, CA: It's been 6 years since Courtney Trouble founded NoFauxxx.com, a DIY queer porn, erotica, and community website. No Fauxxx has achieved what no other adult website has: built an independent, artistic and feminist community based around erotic portraiture and pornography. Now Ms. Trouble brings No Fauxxx's fans, from around the world, a full-length DVD, distributed by the sex toy store, Babeland, and titled, "Roulette." The film will debut on Thursday, March 12, at 9:00PM at the Roxie Theater, located at 3117 16th St.
As the sole creator and force behind No Fauxxx, Courtney Trouble makes her highly anticipated directorial debut, while also performing in one of the films vignettes. Two years in the making, the film brings seven distinct vignettes together to create a game of sexual roulette.
Roulette: An engaged gay couple brings a one-night-stand appeal to their punk rock sex on a rooftop. A queer femme hosts and directs her own gangbang. A Female-to-Male (FTM) transgender guy gets himself off with a glass dildo, and a real life lesbian couple proves that staying home is anything but mundane. These drastically different scenarios are authentic documents of queer sex, culture and desire, proving that queerness is "as hard to define as it is to ignore."
This red carpet premiere and benefit is a meeting place between long-time collaborators Homo A Go Go and No Fauxxx. Ms. Trouble was a key volunteer during the first Homo A Go Go festival in Olympia, WA in 2002. No Fauxxx has also sponsored events and screenings at subsequent Homo A Go Go festivals.
Homo a Go Go 2009 is slated for August 13-16 in San Francisco, CA at SOMArts (934 Brannan St.) This 4 day event is a festival of queer music, film, art, performance and activism. Homo a Go Go recently relocated to San Francisco from Olympia WA, and is a grassroots event that draws participants and artists from all over the world. From 2002-2006, the festival became widely known for creating a unique atmosphere of community, culture and activism. Homo a Go Go has been dubbed, "the ultimate Gaycation," and described as, "life changing," by festival attendees.
The diverse roster of past Homo a Go Go festivals has included everyone from major label luminaries, to indie favorites and underground gems. Past festivals have featured appearances by The Indigo Girls (Epic Records), filmmaker John Cameron Mitchell (Shortbus, Hedwig and the Angry Inch), a reunion of indie/queercore legends Team Dresch (Chainsaw Records), the internationally renowned band The Gossip (Kill Rock Stars/Music with a Twist), Mirah (K Records), Juba Kalamka (the director of PeaceOUT World HomoHop Festival), Bob Mold's Blowoff, writer Michelle Tea, transgender activist/writer/performer Kate Bornstein, transgender performance artist/activist Imani Henry, photographer Mariette Pathy-Allen and filmmaker Bruce La Bruce.
Bookings and negotiations for the 2009 festival are still in progress, but the staff at Homo A Go Go expects this year to include several noteworthy artists. There will be over 100 performers, artists and filmmakers scheduled to perform and show their work at this year's festival. Like the past Olympia based festivals, festival goers are expected to travel to the San Francisco event from all over the world.
Reading like a Homo A Go Go festival guide, some famous No Fauxxx foxes include Junx from Gravy Train!!!, Scream Club, Nicky Click, and mainstream porn stars like Madison Young and Lorelei Lee - offering up their most intimate photo sets and videos to this date.
No Fauxxx puts art and authenticity above all other aspects in the creation of its imagery. Trouble has appeared in numerous art galleries and film festivals beyond the world of pornography. Her work is considered erotic portraiture - providing sexual arousal adherent to pornography, and the contextual composition of traditional portrait, photojournalistic, and abstract art.
"If it weren't for Homo A Go Go," says Trouble, "I would have never known what Queer meant. It was what I was looking for in my youth and could never find: a community-driven event that showcases incredible queer artists, introduces so many people to each other and creates such change in the GLBT universe. And now that I'm older, I see the young queers getting together at Homo A Go Go events and I see that it is still absolutely essential to queer/GLBT visibility, awareness and support."
For more information contact:
Courtney Trouble:
trouble@nofauxxx.com
www.nofauxxx.com
Ed Varga:
ed@homoagogo.com
415-723-7507