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Flavaworks: The House Next Door Prevails!

Cocodorm Wins! (click screen capture for court's final paragraph -- full 11 page decision here) It sucks to be right all the damn time. Actually, no it doesn't. But I said from the beginnning that Flavaworks (parent company of Cocodorm, Papicock, Thugboy and others) was in the right. Haters thought I was just being my nasty ol' self. Well, HA bitches!!! I can be nasty and right! In an order signed ironically on my b'day, today, a judge threw out the case brought against my favorite voyeuristic delight-- where when they say boys will be boys, they mean it. Haters keep hating. But for those who don't know the 411 ... check out the story below. ... the story: Ex-Boykinista on The House Next Door Cocodorm one year later: Still going strong

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Why is QueerClick rehashing lies about Flavaworks?

In a minor flex of their journalistic muscle, Queerclick.com reported Hard Times for Flavaworks - the infamous purveyor of numerous Black and Latino porn sites and owner of that also infamous exhibitionist sexnest, Cocodorm. "Who can possibly keep up with everything sticky and sweet in QueerCandy Land" -- the porn portal announces on its site -- "all the hot men and hotter action released between the sheets of major studios, amateurporniums, and new sites? Well, QueerClick can, so you don't have to!" Well, after sifting through moldy 2 year old errors long ago discredited I concluded that QC should stick to what they do best -- pointing out where the good porn at. Well, unless you sometimes want more color with your nutt. There is QC Espanol and an Asian page etc etc ... but I did find it curious however after spending considerable time there, that the darkest berry on Queerclick's bush was this piece rehashing lies to slam Flavaworks. Hmmm. This slash and burn tactic is almost Rovian. We already know that self-loathing republicans are helming ManHunt ... are they lurking at QC too? Guys who hate themselves, usually hate a lot of other things, too. But I digress ...

... I originally reported on Cocodorm in May '07, so I instantly knew this piece was just microwaved leftovers too dated to eat. I took time to contact the parties involved and checked my sources when I wrote about it, but according to Phil B., Flavaworks owner who I contacted about this latest write up, QC did no such thing before running their story. According to an editorial notation (since removed), the retelling was prompted by this story, which ironically enough, prompted me to see the David and Goliath angle and write Cocodorm one year later: Still going strong. Perspective. But apparently QC saw what they wanted to see and glommed together old discredited news like a bad paper by a horny teenager too preoccupied to care. In their defense, with all that porn around, I can understand. But jeez guys, do a little homework, make a call or two -- it'll still leave time to masturbate to your favorite blond twink du jour. Maybe I wouldn't be so annoyed if I'd seen Flavaworks or ANY other truly urban porn makers on their site. But QC clearly has porn tunnel vision, which link after link after link confirmed. Oh, I ran into the random beige boy. But that's cool. That's their right. To each his own, I say. However, when they do this extensive piece slamming Cocodorm as this disease-riddled group chased out of Chicago, and then have the temerity to segue into the passing of Flavaworks Vice President Dekenric Wiley and allude that the reason given for his death is sometimes a euphemism for AIDS ... they crossed the line of decency. Maybe they don't know many homos of color over at QC, but we actually do pass away from other things -- which was the case with Dekenric. It's extremely sad that fellow gay brothers, and porn lovers at that, would be so utterly, shamelessly, disrespectful. And futhermore, where does QC get the fuckin' balls to cast aspersions about anyone's death just to add depth to their copy and paste journalism? I was going to delve, point by point, ONCE AGAIN, into the intricacies of the case: beginning in Chicago and the real reason Cocodorm moved to Miami; why the city even got involved in testing the models in the first place, why those test results indicated an odd 'cluster', what those results meant in light of a) the overall community and b) the CDC's recent admission of underreporting infections by 40%, and on and on and on .... But I won't. QC obviously isn't that interested in getting the truth, or, uh, in any altruistic actions for Flavaworks plethora of beautiful brown models -- who've left all those unsafe film-making practices in the past years ago. As we speak, QC's post keeps changing as facts are challenged and updated. So I won't waste my time. I hope you won't either. And by the way, if you're looking for a real porn portal, stick with Fleshbot. At least when they claim to monitor everything sticky and sweet, they mean it! ~~

Cocodorm one year later: Still going strong

"What they are doing is not good for the neighborhood," Miami Code Enforcement director Mariano Loret de Mola told Miami Herald blogger Steve Rothaus -- in reference to Cocodorm, the infamous internet sex site which operates out of a nondescript house in Miami. The city has been desperately trying to shut them down since an anonymous outraged 'citizen' hipped all the neighbors to the business by delivering a package full of porn under the cloak of night. Since then, Miami's Goliath has been jumping through legal hoops to flatten Cocodorm's little gay David. Well ... Tick-tock, it's been a year and the dorm is still there. Why? Because they've got a right to be there. Because as the precedent setting Voyeur dorm case points out, yes, its a residential neighborhood, but all activities take place in virtual space. There is no foot traffic. There is no store front. There would have been no notice of this activity at all had it not been for that conveniently anonymous citizen. The only real difference in the two cases is Voyeur dorm deals mostly with hetero white females, I believe, and the dorm deals with brown boys of a same gender lovin' nature. That couldn't make a difference, could it? I'd like to ask that particular Miami Code Enforcement director -- How exactly is (what they do behind the privacy of their own closed doors) not good for the neighborhood?

Porn Twins arrested for multiple robberies [homoerotic twins?]

Breion Invades England ...

CONTACT: Lenox Magee Marketing Director, Flava Works 305-438-9450 lenox@flavaworks.com	FLAVAWORKS PORN STAR “BREION DIAMOND” INVADES ENGLAND! Releases second installment of Thug Mansion series: Breion Diamond’s Crib
MIAMI (February 12, 2008) – Get ready UK, America’s favorite homo thug porn star is coming to England. Top porn star Breion Diamond is set to launch the international DVD release of “Thug Mansion: Breion Diamond's Crib;” which is available February 13th. He kicks off the DVD release tour with two appearances in London, where he’ll be signing autographs, passing out DVDs, and posters. The Chicago native is looking forward to meeting some sexy British thug lads. “I’m really excited to go to London and meet some of the fans,” Diamond said. “Plus, I’ll be filming a soon to be released DVD: “Breion's World: London,” which will include five hot scenes of me topping hot Black bottoms from London. Its gonna be hot. We’re gonna have a great time.” On Breion Diamond’s Crib DVD, you get an up close and personal look inside Diamond’s home, along with an all-access pass inside his luxurious bedrooms, over-the-top bathroom, and the lavish living room. And, you get a close up view of him fucking, sucking, and bringing his other homo thugs over for an all out fuck fest. Like all FlavaWorks DVDs, Thug Mansion: Breion Diamond’s Crib includes computer accessible photo sets of the stars and video optimized for iPod. Come see Breion Diamond at the following London locations:
Wednesday, February 13th HEAVEN www.heaven-london.com	Sunday, February 17th BAD @ The Ghetto London www.ghetto-london.co.uk

Sad News ...

In a month of sad passings, comes this Press Release from Flava Works:

With a heavy heart and great grief, I am reporting the death of our Vice-President Dekenric Wiley aka Devin, July 14, 2007, from pneumonia.

Dekenric was the sun that brightened the day and kept the Flava Works family together during difficult times. We will truly miss his unselfishness and generous personality he shared with us all. We mourn with you a great friend and a great leader. Our condolences go to his family and friends and everyone Dekenric touched.

It's a huge loss for the Flava Works family. His legacy and memory will stay with us forever.

Visit our tribute page for Dekenric 'Devin' Wiley.

Flowers and cards can be sent to our office for Dekenric at 2610 North Miami Ave, Miami FL 33127. Memorial service details will be forthcoming.
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Phil B.
Flava Works, Inc.

Ex-Boykinista on 'The House Next Door'

update below: and images of the porn package that started it all I’ve always had a fascination for Cocoboyz. Call me nasty. Whatever. Maybe it’s because they do something that we all love but would never dare to do on camera. Whatever the reason, I’m thrilled they do what they do, and that I get to watch when I’m feelin’ that way. I also admire these young men for having the balls to do what so many 'claim' to despise yet log on at night in secret. As you all know, I don't subscribe to such hypocrisy, subtefuge and bullshit. Without our porn makers lowering the stress levels of folk, the world would be a much darker place. Trust me. What shocks me most about this story is not young guys having sex in a residential neighborhood and broadcasting it over the net (because please, every person with a freaky-streak has done that—don’t lie) -- but it’s the reaction from respected members of our community, activists who’ve placed themselves in positions and have thus become opinion-makers of sorts that bothers me. This ominous news story was a carbon copy of BET’s expose on the DL man, including its creepy theme music designed to make us cringe. And the title – The House Next Door – was cleverly crafted to make it touch every person with a neighbor. Kudo’s to the producer (when frightening folks is the intent); just giving credit where it’s due. I remained quiet on the scandal at first when an associate and fellow Blogger, Bejata, posted a Health Department report from Chicago which alleged (amongst charts and graphs and statistics) that there was a cluster of HIV infected black men in a dormitory where they have sex with each other on camera for profit. This is old news really. We were all here when that original scandal blew up. The ‘cluster’ of black gay men the Chicago Health Department focused their investigation on concluded that 47% of the Chicago dorm residents where HIV positive. At least a year before that however, GMHC (Gay Men’s Health Crisis) posted this story to a CDC report that put the level of infection for black gay men at 46%. Where’s the cluster? It seems pretty close to the sad national average. I didn’t get the point of posting old news. Haven’t we all heard that figure before? I guess the Chicago Health Department hadn’t, but they seemed shocked and almost outraged by these black gay men in their otherwise stodgy and clinical report. But then Keith Boykin charged in with the tabloid-style headline (with accompanying graphic), Flava Works Has Gone Too Far. This after Jasmyne Cannick mildly picked up the Bejata torch (understandable concerned with free speech) angered that Flavaworks had attempted to shut down Bejata’s blog. Untrue, which Bejata even admitted in this post about how it was a miscommunication between he and his server that caused his site to go down temporarily [and not the valid copy-write complaint filed by Flavaworks with said server]. Reactionary snowball if I’ve ever seen it. And I’m shocked and amazed that our activists are forgetting this one simple fact: In America the Black Gay man is the new nigger. Nothing frightens ‘family-oriented’ white folks more than us. When we have our heads hacked off and thrown out like trash, no one gives a shit. But if we’re fucking and spreading our nastiness in their neighborhood (even behind closed doors and frosted windows), now that’s a story. This has nothing to do with anything else. Well, that and certain activists who don’t take the time to breathe before rushing for a hot headline. If anyone has a problem with this statement, I’ll be more than happy to give a breakdown of events that will show nothing going on here but rhetoric, hype, and bullshit. And maybe someone can tell me why a lawyer/activist would frame salacious “unfounded” allegations with old charges that have already been dismissed. Prejudicial? Inflammatory? Hmmm..... Someone certainly has gone too far. And Hillary Clinton better watch out, ‘cause Bill’s old cum-stain might still rear its crusty head and haunt her too. This whole thing is haunting me actually. Someone once accused me of being a Boykinista because I always backed his plays. I don’t remember who said it, but I’m sure he’s laughing his ass off about now. ~~ tS UPDATE (courtesy of Living Out Loud with Darian) The above unsolicated porn package to all the neighbors months ago. Anonymous people are the biggest pussies of all in my book. How genuine is moral outrage when it doesn't have a face? The letter in the package. I like the way thay closed with the phrase "... travesty of justice". Oh, is it really?

Fags Gone Wild: The CocoDorm Fight!

When I first saw this fight a little while back, I thought about posting about it.

Although I was engrossed in the action, I didn't post about it because I thought the whole thing was a little sad. Petty jealousies and whatnot, leading to the brawl which someone finally uploaded to YouTube. Since it's out there already, I thought you might as well check it out.

There's an irresistably voyeuristic thrill to watching people act a fool. And I guess that's why reality TV is so popular. 'Cause real life can be funny as shit.

But all parties involved in the brawl (which was about much more than who's in bed with who) should've have booted immediately. Someone could've been killed with hammers and pots flying around. Then it would've been a lot less funny. Whoever was supposed to be in charge wasn't doing his job. And from the job posting on the CocoDorm site for a new 'Dorm Daddy', I guess they took necessary action. Kudo's for that.

Whoever takes that job, and I fantacized about it for a hot minute, better be ready to control the storm of youthful hormones which pass through the Dorm on a weekly basis. I couldn't do it without getting caught up in the fantasy and the drama.

Apparently, the last Dorm Dad had the same problem.

CocoDorm's Hot & Creamy Lawsuit

From the Chicagoist ~~~ A man going by the name of John Doe ... filed a civil lawsuit in Cook County Circuit Court that alleges his “depictions” in the gay porn films Dorm Life 6 and Dorm Life 7: Hot and Creamy, are making it hard (ahem) for him to pursue mainstream film work. Call us crazy, but people who file lawsuits to protect their anonymity always confuse us. It seems to us that such lawsuits are guaranteed to attract attention, especially those that feature the phrase “Hot and Creamy.” Though he’s using the name John Doe in this lawsuit, anyone with too much spare time and an Internet connection (read: us) can discover that the director of both films is listed on various online porn shops as Devin Wiley (we'd offer you some links, but we figure you'd like to keep your job). He’s also listed as the director of Dorm Life 4 and 5, two films not mentioned in the lawsuit. This leads us to wonder if it’s a nom de porn. ~~~ Nom de porn? That's classic. I guess this is what happens when you try to dip your schtick into porn on the Down Low.

Porn model blasts Cocodorm ...

The Cocodorm saga continues ....

Here's a email we got from porn model Peanut.

He agreed to publish it here because he wanted to "warn the boys please. I don't want anyone making the same mistake I did by going there. Phill has a video out with me in it and I haven't gotten a penny for it. ..."