His tweet read: "The GayVN Awards announce nominations including a BEST ETHNIC SCENE category for black, Latin, and Asian models. Meanwhile none are nominated as best actor or supporting actor."
"My response, '...I am respectfully declining my nominations in all categories...'"
In the scathing letter, Hunter addressed industry, saying: "The gay porn industry has always been a place of veiled racism and bigotry. It now appears as if the GayVN Awards have chosen to make this racism and bigotry more blatant in their return to the awards arena."
"As I browsed through the GayVN award nomination categories and its endless list of nominees I noticed a category which immediately struck my sensibilities as wrong and, quite frankly, turned my stomach."
Hunter wrote: "Why were these scenes not included in the best scene category?" "Why would a gay porn company choose to separate minority groups into their own race at an event that is supposed to celebrate the gay industry in its entirety? Why would this category be created in 2017 when the political climate is so thick with racial divide in this country?" He has now urged members of the gay adult entertainment industry to "stand up against the systemic racism and bigotry" in the industry. "I want to be remembered for stepping forward and starting a movement to eventually end racism and bigotry in this beleaguered industry," he writes. "For so many we are the educators of sexuality. Let's be the best educators we can be." More stories: Strictly Come Dancing’s Gorka Marquez strips off and talks fitness with Attitude Football’s first openly gay referee says game is stuck in the ‘dark ages’ when it comes to homophobiaThe @gayvn awards announce nominations including a BEST ETHNIC SCENE category for black, Latin, and Asian models. Meanwhile none are nominated as best actor or supporting actor.
My response, “...I am respectfully declining my nominations in all categories...” Full letter here. pic.twitter.com/CQPxZFRuZ6 — Hugh Hunter (@theHughHunter) November 25, 2017
