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TLA Gay Review

TLA Video has been around as a bricks and mortar company since 1981 and they provided a gay audience with movies that places like Blockbuster Video wouldn't carry. TLA launched their online presence in 1996. TLA Gay is a massive site that is a bit unusual in that it mixes gay cinema and gay porn all in the same place. There are lots of porn theaters where you can watch XXX videos, but they rarely sell mainstream film, albeit it gay and queer themed movies –  TLA carries both. They also have a sex toys section, but I don't see books here anymore. It's been four and a half years since our last visit in 2022, so we're long overdue.

The Gay Cinema section lets you browse a massive catalog of DVDs of mainstream LBGT+ movies that you can purchase and have shipped to your home, but you can also stream DVDs and pay by the minute or rent the DVD for two days of streaming, and you can also download DVDs and save them to your device, and they are yours to keep. Many DVDs, usually new releases, are only available on physical DVDs that are shipped to you, but this isn't always the case.

"Plainclothes" with Russell Tovey and Tom Blyth is one of the newest releases and it's a erotic and emotional award-winning thriller from director Carmen Emmi. "The Groomsmen" is a Hallmark Channel production and winner of the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Streaming or TV Film and it stars B.J. Britt, Jonathan Bennett, and Tyler Hynes. There are many others like "Who Wants to Marry an Astronaut?", "The History of Sound", and the 2025 release of "Kiss of the Spider Woman" starring Jennifer Lopez, Diego Luna, and Tonatiuh.There are around 1,000 videos here, maybe more, and the site provides so many different way to find movies.

The Shop Gay Porn section is where we'll focus most of our attention. "Spain in the Ass 3" starring Paddy O'Brian and a cast of 13 other gay porn stars like Heath Halo, Apolo Adrii, and Sir Peter is front and center on the homepage, and with good reason, it features Paddy O'Brian in his first-ever gang bang as a bottom. This is a good example because it demonstrates the many ways you can enjoy the videos here. You can buy the DVD and have it shipped to you almost around the world; you can buy minutes and watch the scenes or the whole movie; it's available to download and it comes in sizes up to 2180p (4K Ultra HD) and there is a standard definition included; you can use the stream-for-life option; or you can rent it for two days.
If you're not into buying or renting DVDs, TLA Gay does have an Unlimited membership that gives you full access to over 24,00 videos. You can browse these by Movies, Scenes, Studios, or Pornstars.

There are currently 95,619 individual scenes from 24,445 movies. There are 488 studios and you'll find all your favorites like Cocky Boys, Kristen Bjorn, Men at Play, Next Door Studios, Bear Films, and so many others. But not every studio is here, I notice that Bel Ami and Falcon Studios are missing. You'll also find lots of studios you've never heard of like Berlin Star Film with 45 kink and fetish movies, Big Boy with seven movies featuring White boys taking huge Black cocks, and Twink Tales with 15 DVDs packed with sexy European twinks. There's also a porn star section with all of your favourites. There are 5,523 performers listed in this section and you can browse them by name and you can sort them by Popularity, Ethnicity and Hair Color. Under the Popularity sort, Dale Savage who just died last week is right in the top row alongside Legrand Wolf, Paul Carrigan, Reese Rideout, Roman Todd, and Paddy O'Brian. One thing that has changed is that most performers now have a small stats and bio section on their pages.

TLAGay has 24,445 gay porn titles in the Unlimited section. The newer productions play in a streaming player that resizes them to fit your device. The older videos have fewer resolutions and play in a smaller player, but it's still pretty good.  The videos are offered from 360p (low SD) to 2160p (4K Ultra HD) when available and 1080p (Full HD) when it's not. The video player also offers a full-screen option which will have varying results depending on the video's age and original production. The site and videos worked well on my phone and tablet. When selecting a Movie, the video player loads up the entire movie and you can stream it in the adaptive player that resizes the video to fit your device. Under the movie player you'll find the studio and cast listing along with some category tags. You can also stream each of the DVD scenes on their own rather than having to find them in the longer DVD, although the full DVD has scene markers on the time line, so they are easy to jump to. Giving us myriad ways to enjoy their content is one of TLA Gay's strong points.

You're free to find videos using any of the site's features like Movies, Scenes, Studios, and Pornstars, but on the homepage there are Featured Movies, Featured Scenes, Popular Movies, and Popular Scenes. And once you select an individual movie, there are always others listed at the bottom of the same page, often from the same producer, but not always.

The main navigation bar doesn't have types of men or activities out front, but you will find Categories under the Scenes dropdown. Also, as I mentioned, each Movie's page lists up to two dozen tags where you can find types of guys like Asian, Athletes, or Daddies or activities like Bareback, Sex Toy Play, and Oral. The Shop Gay Porn section also has Category, Studios, Starring, and Price options that you can select on the sidebar. But suffice it to say that you'll  find virtually every type of man here: athletes, bald guys, bears, blue-collar guys, daddies, hairy men, jocks, life guards, muscle men, straight guys, twinks, and so many more. And the men come from all over the world, so you'll find Black guys, Latin men, Europeans, and Asians, as well as heaps of Americans.

Some movies are labeled as Premium Pay Per Minute and these carry an extra charge: you pay for 2.5 seconds for every second watched (that's up a bit since our last visit when it was 2 seconds), so if you watch 60 seconds of video you'll be charged 150 seconds. I found a few Premium Pay Per Minute videos that actually charge three seconds  for every one you watch. The Premium PPM videos are clearly marked.

Updates is an area where TLAGay really shines - to say they update frequently is a bit of an understatement – but it's a bit hard to get a handle on how much content they add because some sections label updates with release dates and  others don't. For instance, there were 15 DVDs released for purchase on July 14, but the Unlimited section shows different DVDs in the new release section and they aren't dated. So some DVDs are only released to purchase initially and arrive into the Unlimited section later on. Still, there's so much content here that this is hardly an issue.

There are a few things worth mentioning. First, the 5-day trial is $5.99 and rather than rebilling at a monthly rate, it rebills $5.99 every five days which puts it at $34.95 for a month and that's $5 more than the monthly option. There is currently an unchecked offer on the sign-up page, but you should check that it's still opt-in when you join. The site has 218 fewer DVDs overall, but they have definitely been adding new videos over the past 4.5 years. I chalk the decrease up to disappearing inventory, meaning that once a run of DVDs is depleted they may not be replenished, and in many cases, producers disappear. As well, demand for hard goods has been replaced by streaming, so that surely accounts for some of the decrease.

TLA Gay is huge site with a massive selection of streaming DVD titles from a wide range of producers including both studios and porn sites. They have over 24,445 gay porn DVDs to watch with a monthly membership option in the Unlimited section. There's also over 1,000 videos in Gay Cinema. There are multiple options for you to enjoy the movies, so you can watch them and pay per minute, or you can rent them for two days, you can buy and download them, and you can also buy DVDs and have them shipped to you. There's a lot to see here so the best thing is go have a look and see what catches your eye.

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