The equivalent to the GayVN in Europe, the David Awards erupts in controversy. Four gay producers are protest and giving back the awards in some cases because of “too much bareback content and accusations of shams”.
Titan Media founder Bruce Cam refused to accept the David Lifetime Achievement Award. "I cannot in good conscience accept a lifetime achievement award from an organization that glorifies and promotes bareback content alongside my own," Cam said Tuesday. "I have worked my entire adult-industry career to promote and eroticize safer sex content in all of my films. It would be against every single fiber of my moral being to accept this award. Silence is acceptance, and I can no longer sit by and watch the industry where I have worked and helped shape be destroyed by others seeking financial gain at the expense of performers and the entire gay community," he continued. "I cannot and will not accept this award, as it is tainted with the blood of others."
In 2006, the first year for the David Awards, TitanMen won the award for Best American Studio. In addition, TitanMen exclusive models François Sagat and Spencer Quest were awarded Best European Actor and Best Non-European Actor, respectively. At that time, bareback films were excluded from consideration, citing the same standards employed by the GAYVN awards."It appears that this year's list of nominees were kept from Titan Media and other nominated studios in an apparent attempt to conceal the amount of bareback films and studios being nominated," a Titan Media press release distributed Tuesday noted. "Had Titan Media been informed of the fact that the vast majority of the nominees were bareback, we would not have supported or attended the event."
Chi Chi LaRue who received 2 David Awards for Best U.S. Director and for the film “In His Dreams” states "I was really disappointed that the David Awards seem to have taken the focus off good filmmaking and quality movies in many of the categories and turned to honoring and promoting all things bareback,"
Michael Lucas has also stated the he believes the judges may have been biased. "First, I want to say that I applaud Titan Media for their decision," Lucas told GAYVN. "Secondly, about the so-called David Awards, they asked us point blank if we were going to be sponsoring the show and said point blank that only under the circumstances of giving them money were we going to get an award. We ignored their e-mails."
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