Jerry Douglas has won more GayVN trophies than anyone else in the gay adult industry. This year, he won his fifth Best Screenplay trophy for Studio 2000's Dream Team. Douglas won his first writing trophy in 1990, for More of a Man. He followed that up with 1993's Honorable Discharge, 1995's The Diamond Stud and 1996's Flesh and Blood.
"People always say we're not to here to see a story, we're here to see fucking; but then a dear old friend, Stan Ward, said to me that sex in context is more interesting than sex in limbo," recounts Douglas. "It's a lot more fun to see someone you know fuck than someone you don't. What are they going to do and what are they going to look like? It gives the viewer a chance to know the person and what they do. Human beings are more than sex machines fucking."
Audiences may be surprised that Douglas has only won Best Director at the GayVNs once before (for Flesh and Blood in 1996), and he joins John Travis, John Rutherford and Chi Chi LaRue in winning two Best Director trophies each. Dream Team was a personal story for him, about a basketball team coming back for a reunion after five years. Douglas lived that story.
"I came out somehow in every one of those stories," says Douglas. "I was married, I had sex in the back of a pickup truck in the middle of a cornfield, I had sex during a dancing lesson. I never had a secret room, but I had a tree house and clubhouses."
Douglas hopes his wins will spark interest in other high-budget projects he wants to do. He does one movie every year or so, for different studios, and may retire from his Manshots editor's job in November, when he turns 65.
"I was surprised. I thought Wash West's Animus would win," Douglas says frankly. "I admire it, and I also thought The Apprentice was a brilliant and remarkable film and Joe Landon is a great actor. I was prepared to be gracious and congratulate them."
Douglas's next project will be a James Bond-esque gay video called Top Secret for Men of Odyssey.
