This past weekend West Hollywood was abuzz with various holiday parties, attended by many gay porn notables. The festivities kicked off on Friday, with the Rentboy.com holiday party at Hamburger Mary's. In addition to myself and Brandon Baker (and by the way, a HUGE thank you goes out to the folks that came out and told us how much you enjoy our JUB column!), also in attendance were Andy Kirra, Kyle Foxxx, Eddie Stone, Antonio Milan, Tristan Tucker, Bret Wolfe, Chi Chi La Rue, Rascal Video/RandyBlue.com Exclusive (and current JUB coverboy) Blake Riley, Dempsy Stearns, popular blogger Travis Muroki, and gay porn agent Howard Andrew of Fabscout Entertainment. It was actually quite a different party than usual for Rentboy.com. Normally they throw massive events like the Hustlaball (the next edition of which is going to be in Las Vegas in January), but this was relatively intimate, just people mingling and enjoying good food and good drinks, with music in the background. It was also a voting station for the WeHo Awards.

The next night Jeremy Joe (who writes the Starrfucker blog) held his annual birthday celebration at the infamous Spotlight Room in Hollywood. (The Spotlight Room is the oldest gay bar in the city of Los Angeles, and has a bit of a seedy reputation.) The place was PACKED, jammed with people wall-to-wall. Giving their regards to the birthday boy were myself, Howard Andrew, Randy Blue himself (who brought along the gorgeous Derrek Diamond from his website), showstopper Trevor Knight, and videographer Ross Cannon. Despite the reputation of the bar and the abundance of porn stars the celebration was rather chaste (well...with the exception of a hot little lapdance that one of the gogo boys gave Jeremy). A cake was brought out, we all sang, the whole nine yards. A good time was had by all.

Sunday night was the charity fundraiser/birthday party for Cockyboys.com Exclusive Christian Owen, held at here lounge. This is the event that I had written about previously where guests were encouraged to bring a pair of new shoes to donate to charity. In fact, Christian had set up a Christmas tree in his booth at the club, and decorated it with the shoes that people donated. Stopping by to support the cause were Blake Riley (Christian's ex, with whom he is still on friendly terms), Lex Sabre, Dean Phoenix, Antonio Milan, Eddie Diaz, and socialite Jonathan Chang. By the looks of the tree, it appeared that Christian was indeed able to raise quite a bit for charity. (My only criticism was that the beautiful lad didn't gogo dance that night. He said it was his birthday and he wanted to have a night off from that, which is understandable, but just think of how much more money he could have made for charity! ;-)

Before I go, here are a few pictures from the Rentboy.com party. Thanks to Howard Andrew for supplying the photos.