BREAKING: Attendee Of GayVN Awards And After-Party Recounts Lucas Vs. Corrigan

BREAKING: GayVN Awards And Party Attendee Recounts Lucas Vs. Corrigan
We continue of breaking coverage of the Michael Lucas / Brent Corrigan altercation at the GayVN Awards this weekend with a firsthand account of the action told to us by someone who attended the awards show and stayed at the hotel where the alleged “arrest” went down. You can track all the drama at the Lucas Vs. Corrigan QC news page. The attendee’s story starts here:
PRE-SHOW MOOD: Michael Lucas entered the hotel on Saturday morning before the award show to an amazing number of loud hisses and whispers from others in the industry, like he Glenn Close in Dangerous Liaisons or something! Wow. Alone in the elevator, he made a brief comment about how he hoped he would win, but was skeptical of the show itself. Ding! His floor and he left… in his signature, diamonds-are-shoved-up-my-ass gait.
AT THE SHOW: Once again, people hissed as he walked by (but you have to understand and appreciate that the GayVN Award shows are a bit like “Showtime at the Apollo”—if people don’t like you, they aren’t shy about letting you know. They cat-call, get up, charge the stage (as Michael did), sometimes everyone forgets what they’re doing. The show’s a lovely mess.
Anyway, it was clear Lucas Studios was getting overlooked and Raging Stallion was winning by a landslide… which was also stirring the crowd up. Michael was obviously annoyed as well. While accepting an award in very broken English, he made a subtle jab at Raging Stallion, which many didn’t catch. It was clear at this point that Lucas was searching for a way to stir up, in his classic, any-publicity-is-good-publicity approach of doing business. While Brent Corrigan looked genuinely grateful and stunned for his honors (and the crowd wasn’t entirely supportive of him either), Lucas clearly set his sight on him. And the opportunity came after an excellent announcement from the ASACP (Assoc. of Sites Advocating Child Protection) folks, that Lucas suddenly bolted on stage, took the mic and congratulated the ASACP folks (in perfect English) and the shamed Brent Corrigan and the studios involved with him as being an example of how the industry can exploit underage kids. He was immediately boo’ed and told to get off stage. As Corrigan and others nearly rushed the stage to confront him. But the attempt was immediately and abundantly obvious: He wanted to get his name in the press. Love him or hate him, you’ve got to admire the quick public relations genius he is… his name will be the name you read. In porn, you can’t really get notice from paparazzi shots of your pussy hanging out as you get out of a cab. Instead, Lucas finds any controversy he can. Brent and company were very obviously irritated: he got up and went to get drinks and re-group.
Lucas later apologized for the statement on-stage and wanted it to be clear he wasn’t attacking Brent, but rather the industry as a whole. The apology (in very broken English) fell flat. People were yelling, music was playing. You barely could understand his message. It seemed his final attempt to sealing that he’d make headlines.
AFTER THE SHOW: The after-party ended at 4:00am and back to the hotel, two police cars sat outside with cops inside. In the elevator two officers said “no” when asked if anyone was being loud or out of control, but offered not further information. A very drunk (messy) drag queen said, “Sounds like Michael Lucas got in fight”. Now mind you, she was fidgeting with her panty hose (sort of pulling them down) and no one took her very seriously, but it sounds like that might have been “the arrest,” wish we’d have asked more about what was going on.

Mar 30, 2009 By paperbagwriter 4 Comments

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