The lists here are incomplete there were twenty categories in all, including "Best Pubic Hair". Adam Gay Video 1999 Awards lists the awards by the year in which the work was done (the method emulated here) the Adam Gay Video 2004 Awards, by the year in which award ceremony was held. The list below is taken from the Adam Gay Video Directories for 19. Nominees were selected from names sent in from all over the world winners were chosen by fans worldwide voting at a website or via mail, fax, or e-mail. The Probe / Men in Video Awards, also called The Probies, were designed to be the People's Choice Awards of the gay pornography industry. Their awards show, presented in Los Angeles in June, was considered to be an " E ticket" ride for the industry. The Gay Producers Association (GPA) was a short-lived but significant group of gay video insiders that was formed during the "heyday of gay video". Ironically, 1998 was the last year for which awards were given, at ceremonies held in 1999. The awards continued after the Guide itself ceased publication and were renamed the Gay Erotic Video Awards in 1998. The award show was mounted as a charity event for the Aid for AIDS Organization. Magazine staffers made the nominations and the voting was opened up to "special well-known celebrity judges". Eligibility for the twenty-four awards that were presented in the inaugural year was determined by release date during a period ending in early October of a given year.
The Gay Video Guide (GVG) Awards, as they were originally known, The Gay Erotic Video Awards were awarded annually for gay and bisexual pornography by the Gay Video Guide ( GVG), a pocket-sized newsstand magazine that catered primarily to fans. The last awards were published for the first time in the Adam Gay Video 1996 Directory since the column ceased in December 1994. Kinnick had a monthly "Video Review" column in Advocate Men Magazine the results were posted in his column each May from 1989 through 1993.
Originated by Adam Gay Video Directory editor Dave Kinnick and backed by the in-house review staff, these awards were announced for the years 1989 to 1994. The Hard Choice Awards are presented annually by online gay and bisexual male-oriented website XX Factor which features news and reviews of XXX Web sites, gay adult films, print erotica and other forms of adult entertainment to "provide gay and bisexual men with information, news and entertainment that promotes a safe, healthy and enjoyable erotic lifestyle." The awards first started for films reviewed in 1994 and just eleven categories, as of 2009, the 15th year, they present in over thirty categories. They have been sponsored by Gay Chicago Magazine, later by Grab Magazine (since 2009). The Adult Erotic Gay Video Awards, better known as Grabby Awards, or The Grabbys, are presented annually for gay pornography since 1992, at live awards ceremonies in Chicago since 1999.