Puerto Rican Pornstar Parade!

We'll be honest with you guys, we're too lazy to go out to the Puerto Rican Day Parade on Sunday. Instead, we're going to have our own little parade with Puerto Rican pornstars! We figured you might enjoy it as well.

We know we already did the Gina Lynn Friday Five to mark this weekend, but given that the Puerto Rican Day Parade is the biggest parade in New York, it seems silly of us to just focus on one pornstar. Plus, the theme for this year's parade is "Celebrating the natural beauty of Puerto Rico." What a coincidence! That's exactly what we're about to do.

Gina Lynn
You already know some of the major plot points of Gina Lynn's career, but there's always more to learn! Gina was born in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, she grew up in Jackson Township, New Jersey, and she now lives in Reading, Pennsylvania, where she runs Gina Lynn Productions. In addition to being a phenomenal pornstar, Gina poses for men's magazines (she was originally a glamour model, and posed for Cheri back in 1997) and makes random appearances in cool places. She showed up in Eminem's "Superman" music video, as well as Vinnie Paz's "Keep Movin' On" music video, she was an extra in the movies "Analyze That" and "MingHags," and she had a brief speaking role as a stripper in a 2004 episode of "The Sopranos."

[Via Gina Lynn (promo.premiumpass.com)]
Marquetta Jewel
Like Gina, Marquetta Jewel is actually half-Puerto Rican and half-Italian. Unlike Gina, Marquetta was born and raised in Ohio. But that's no big! We're not trying to rate people on their relative Puerto Rican-ness. The point is that Marquetta is freakin' adorable, she's 24 years old, and even though she's not currently doing porn, there are a bunch of extremely sexy scene with her out there. We recommend checking out some of her Evil Angel stuff!

[Via Latina Diamonds (galleries.pimproll.com)]
Carmen Luvana
There was a time when you couldn't pick up an Adam & Eve DVD without seeing Carmen Luvana on the cover, and even though she's no longer working in the adult industry, we still love her. This bombshell was born in Brooklyn, moved to Puerto Rico when she was five, and then came back to the states when she was eighteen to be an exotic dancer in Miami. We remember watching her in "The Contractor," noticing that she was a capable and confident actor throughout the entire movie, and she always kept her energy high. That, and the fact that we never saw her have sex without a condom, makes her a delightfully unusual figure in the porn world.

[Via Earl Miller (galleries.earlmiller.com)]
Estella Leon
Estella Leon, why are you so fine? And why does our store have so few DVDs of yours?

Estella was born in Bayamón, Puerto Rico, started doing porn at the age of 24, and did 18 movies her first year in the business. Perhaps her career wasn't the most memorable, but there's still something about hers eyes that sticks with us. And her name, too! It's a good thing there's a bunch of random galleries of her to ogle; we tend to get obsessed with women who only have five pictures floating around and that is simply torturous.

[Via Horny Spanish Flies (wannawatch.com)]
Vanessa Del Rio
We double-dog-dare you to think of Puerto Rican pornstars without having Vanessa Del Rio come up in your mind. How many pornstars get to have Taschen make a huge book about their lives entitled "Vanessa del Rio: Fifty Years of Slightly Slutty Behavior"? She is capital-A-mazing. Vanessa was born and raised in Harlem, New York in 1952, and she grew up watching films of the Latina sex symbol Isabel Sarli. She started making adult films in 1974, took a break in 1986 (due to the AIDS scare at the time), came back soon after, and continued making movies until 1999. That's a quarter-century of smut! Plus: this is Vanessa Del Rio getting rubbed on in the music video for "Get Money" by Junior M.A.F.I.A.

Look, if Biggie Smalls is down with Vanessa Del Rio, then you should be, too.

[Via The Classic Porn (theclassicporn.com)]