RIDE OR DIE has rolled triumphantly into the end of awards season by nabbing top honors at the 2023 Grabbys in Chicago. Following an unprecedented series of monumental wins at the Fleshbot, XBIZ and GayVN Awards, Raging Stallion Studios’ acclaimed event mini-series swept the Windy City’s Metro Theatre this past Saturday, May 27th, making RIDE OR DIE the night’s most lauded project with awards for Best Movie, Best Director (Tony Dimarco), Best Screenplay (Ben Rush) and Best Actor (Exclusive Cole Connor).
“RIDE OR DIE is a juggernaut project that has earned its place as one of the most awarded gay adult films of all time. Director Tony Dimarco and screenwriter Ben Rush – along with an A-list cast and top-notch crew – turned out a mega-blockbuster that is most definitely a contemporary classic,” said Falcon | NakedSword President and CEO Tim Valenti. “Grabby Awards for SCRUM: Balls to the Wall, Dirty Desert Doctors and Tales from the Locker Room 3, along with a Lifetime Achievement honor for our very own Trenton Ducati, are a testament to Falcon | NakedSword’s position as the industry’s leading producer of first-rate, premium gay content.”
To celebrate RIDE OR DIE ’s overwhelming success, Falcon | NakedSword has released a treasure trove of behind-the-scenes content from the Raging Stallion mini-series that lives exclusively on “the Netflix of gay porn”, NakedSword.com. In RIDE OR DIE: BEHIND BARS, fans can watch the official music video for ‘Ride On It’, RIDE OR DIE’s original hit song from Exclusive Andre Donovan and Remixlab, along with a parody video of Chicago’s ‘Cell Block Tango’ and two separate featurettes that give fans a unique look behind the cameras of Raging Stallion’s most ambitious production to date. This bonus material – plus the special director’s cuts for all nine episodes of RIDE OR DIE and the extreme Golden Edition of RIDE OR DIE: SLIPPERY WHEN WET – can be found here exclusively on NakedSword’s RIDE OR DIE: FULL SENTENCE at nakedsword.com/rideordie.
On the heels of Falcon | NakedSword’s official Grabbys kick-off party at Sidetrack Chicago, the 2023 Grabbys ceremony also awarded coveted trophies to Falcon | NakedSword Exclusives Beau Butler (Hottest Bottom), Cade Maddox (Hottest Body) and Drew Valentino (Best Newcomer). Tales from the Locker Room 3 from Falcon Studios took home Best Supporting Actor (Devin Franco) and Best Threeway (Bruce Beckham, Taylor Reign and Drake Von) with Raging Stallion Studios’ eight-man locker room orgy from SCRUM: Balls to the Wall winning Best Group Scene. In addition, industry veteran Trenton Ducati was named Best Director (All-Sex) for Hot House’s Dirty Desert Doctors and honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award.