Adam Gay Video Directory
| J. C. Adams | |
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| Occupation | Journalist, Editor (Unzipped Monthly, Inside Porn Magazine, XXX Showcase, Adam Gay Video Directory) |
| Period | 1995- |
| Subject | Gay pornography |
| Notable works | The Adams Report, Adam Gay Video Directory |
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J. C. Adams (June 6, 1970) is an American author, magazine editor and reporter whose work focuses on the gay pornographic industry, and a gay pornographic film director.
Adams was born in 1970 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His father was a teacher. He has two brothers, one older and one younger.
He attended local Catholic elementary and secondary schools before graduating with a bachelor's degree from La Roche College.
Adams moved to Los Angeles, California in 1992. He began writing articles on various sex-related topics for Sex Vibe, an occasional magazine published by AIDS Project Los Angeles. He continued to contribute to the publication until its demise in 1998.
In August 1995, Adams began writing reviews of gay porn films for Adult Video News (AVN), a trade industry publication covering the straight, gay, bisexual, and transsexual porn industry. In 1997, the Adam Gay Video Directory, an annual publication of gay porn film reviews produced by Knight Publishing Corp., hired him to write reviews for the next edition of its annual film guide.
His work for AVN brought him to the attention of the gay adult film industry, and in 1995 he worked as a coordinator for the Gay Erotic Video Awards (GEVAs), an annual gay porn industry awards show sponsored by Gay Video Guide. In 1997, he became judging and nominations coordinator for the GEVAs, and continued in that role until the final awards show in 1998.
In 1998, Adams began reviewing gay porn films for RAD Video, a major online retailer of gay, straight and bisexual mainstream and adult films. That same year, Adams began writing a monthly column for the company's Web site in which he reported on industry events, technology, scandals and other newsworthy topics.
Adams' first published mainstream work was a portrait of gay adult film agent and former rock promoter David Forest, which appeared in Genre magazine in October 1999.
Adams also began writing for Unzipped magazine (formerly Advocate Classifieds) in 1998, contributing articles, reviews and interviews with gay porn stars. He was hired as the publication's editor in June 2000 after the editors decided to relaunch the biweekly publication as a monthly, and produced the first issued of the new Unzipped (August 2000 issue). He left the magazine in January 2002.
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