HIV Posive Porn Star Derrick Burts: Gay for Pay

Contents:

• CURRENTLY WORKG GAY PORN STARS THAT ARE HIV POSIVE
• HIV OUTG OF GAY PORN STAR
• THIS GAY PORN STAR REVEALED HIS HIV STAT AN SPIRG VIO
• GAY BAREBACK PORN STAR DI OF HIV RELATED PLITNS
• HIV POSIVE PORN STAR DERRICK BURTS: GAY FOR PAYTHE STRAIGHT MAN WHO SPARKED PORN’S HIV PANIC DID GAY SCEN AND HAD A MALE-RT AD. RICHARD ABOWZ ON HOW MONEY WO ARE FORCG GUYS TO GO “GAY FOR PAY”—AND PUTTG ACTORS AT RISK.RICHARD ABOWZUPDATED JUL. 14, 2017 9:17PM EDT / PUBLISHED DEC. 10, 2010 8:07AM EST DERRICK BURTS, 24, THE ACTOR WHOSE HIV POSIVE TT SPARKED A TEMPORARY SHUTDOWN OF THE US PORN FILMMAKG DTRY, HIS FIRST PUBLIC MENTS HOLLYWOOD, DEC. 8, 2010. (GABRIEL BOUYS, AFP / GETTY IMAG)DERRICK BURTS, A BABY-FACED 24 YEAR OLD OM SUBURBAN LOS ANGEL, HAD BARELY BEGUN HIS PORN REER WHEN HE GOT THE VASTATG NEWS: THE ROUTE HIV TT HE’D TAKEN AT THE ADULT INDTRY MEDIL CLIC (AIM), HAD E BACK POSIVE. THAT WAS TWO MONTHS AGO. PER DTRY PROTOL, AIM IMMEDIATELY NOTIFIED THE PORN MUNY THAT AN FECTED PERFORMER WAS WORKG THEIR MIDST, AND THE BOMBSHELL ANNOUNCEMENT TEMPORARILY BROUGHT THE MASTREAM PORN DTRY TO A VIRTUAL STANDSTILL. BURTS REMAED ANONYMO UNTIL EARLIER THIS WEEK WHEN HE ANNOUNCED AT A PRS NFERENCE THAT HE WAS THE SO-LLED PATIENT ZETA AT THE CENTER OF THE LURID GUSG GAME.BUT THAT DIDN’T PUT THE MATTER TO RT. THE NEW QUTN BEME: HOW DID DERRICK BURTS, WHO SAYS THAT OUTSI OF WORK HIS ONLY SEX PARTNER WAS HIS GIRLIEND, GET FECTED? THE ANSWER TO THAT QUTN MAY REVEAL SOME HARD TTHS ABOUT THE PORN DTRY. BURTS’ GIRLIEND TTED NEGATIVE. AND NO HIV-POSIVE PERFORMER HAS STEPPED FORWARD TO ADM TO WORKG WH BURTS.WHEN TO WORKG A SEX DTRY, HOWEVER, “STRAIGHT” IS A FLEXIBLE TERM. LIKE MANY MALE PORN ACTORS, BURTS SOMETIM WENT “GAY FOR PAY,” PERFORMG BOTH STRAIGHT PORN WH WOMEN UNR THE NAME CAMERON REID, AND GAY PORN WH OTHER MEN UNR THE NAME DEREK CHAMBERS. THE REASON FOR TWO DISTCT NAM IS THAT THE PORN DTRY, DOG BOTH GAY AND STRAIGHT PORN—LLED “CROSSG OVER”—IS BOTH RELATIVELY MON AND ALSO FAIRLY TABOO. MANY FEMALE PERFORMERS BELIEVE THAT THE RISK OF NTRACTG HIV DURG A SCENE IS VASTLY CREASED IF THEIR MALE PARTNER PARTICIPAT GAY PORN. IN OCTOBER, WHEN THE ALARM BELLS WERE FIRST SOUND ABOUT THE STILL ANONYMO PATIENT ZETA, PORN STAR COURTNEY CUMMZ TOLD THE DAILY BEAST SHE WAS “TERRIFIED” BY STARS WHO CROSS OVER, AND THOUGHT THE OCCUPATNAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMISTRATN SHOULD STEP TO PREVENT . “YOU HEAR MORS ABOUT STRAIGHT PERFORMERS ALL THE TIME. MALE PERFORMERS DO THGS THEIR PRIVATE LIFE AND YOU JT DON’T KNOW .” "IT DOWN TO SAFETY,” SHE SAID. “I THK OSHA NEEDS TO E AND THEY NEED TO SERLY REGULATE THIS, BEE EVERY TIME [SOMEONE TTS POSIVE FOR HIV] ’S BEE A PERFORMER IS GOG TO THE SAME-SEX SI. I AM NOT ATTACKG THE GAY DTRY, BEE I LIKE TO WATCH GAY PORN MYSELF. BUT I WILL NOT WORK WH AN DIVIDUAL THAT DO GAY PORN." ANOTHER FEMALE PORN STAR TERVIEWED THIS WEEK AGREED, SAYG SHE WORRI SO MUCH ABOUT MEN WHO CROSS OVER THAT SHE WATCH “A LOT” OF GAY PORN SIMPLY SO SHE N REGNIZE WHO DO AND AVOID WORKG WH THEM. (SHE SAID THAT, BEE OF THE DIFFERENT NAM THEY E, SHE THEIR TATTOOS TO HELP HER KEEP TRACK.)FOR ALL THE LEGIMATE WORRY, OUTBREAKS MASTREAM STRAIGHT PORN REMA SURPRISGLY RARE, PECIALLY NSIRG THE VOLUME OF NTENT SHOT AND HIGH-RISK BEHAVR FILMED. LAST YEAR A PERFORMER TURNED UP POSIVE, SPARKG A PANIC, BUT NO ONE WHO WORKED WH HER WAS DISVERED TO BE FECTED. ACRDG TO PORN SIRS, THE LAST KNOWN OUTBREAK WHERE A POSIVE PERFORMER IS KNOWN TO HAVE FECTED OTHERS WAS 2004.STILL, THE FEAR KEEPS EVERYONE ON EDGE, AND WHILE CUMMZ AND OTHER FEMALE PERFORMERS SIST THEY’RE NOT ANTI-GAY, THE TOPIC REMAS A HOT POTATO THE TY MUNY, WHERE BEG CLOSED-MD ABOUT SEXUALY MAK YOU A HERETIC. FEW ARE WILLG TO GO ON THE RERD ABOUT THEIR NCERNS WH CROSSG OVER. BUT STATISTILLY, THEIR WORRI ARE VALID. FOR ONE THG, ACRDG TO A RECENT STUDY BY THE CDC, MEN WHO HAVE SEX WH MEN ARE 44 TIM MORE LIKELY TO NTRACT HIV THAN MEN WHO DON’T. BUT PERHAPS THE LARGER PERCEIVED PROBLEM IS THAT HIV TTG STANDARDS ARE PLETELY DIFFERENT GAY PORN THAN THEY ARE STRAIGHT PORN. WHILE MOST OF THE STRAIGHT PORN DTRY MANDAT A MONTHLY HIV TTG REGIMEN, A SIGNIFINT PORTN OF THE GAY PORN WORLD NDOMS—YET DON’T REQUIRE S PERFORMERS TO GET TTED.“IN THE BS, THE LAST THG YOU WANT TO DO IS SULT EHER SI,” SAYS PORN STAR RAYLENE, WHO HAPPENED TO BE ON SET WH CUMMZ YTERDAY. RAYLENE WAS EXPLAG WHY, FOR ALL HER TENSY OCTOBER, CUMMZ NOW NO LONGER WANTED TO DISCS HER VIEWS ON CROSSOVER PERFORMERS. FOR THAT SAME REASON, MARK SPIEGLER, THE DTRY’S TOP FEMALE TALENT AGENT (HE REPRENTS BIG DRAWS LIKE BELLADONNA, KIMBERLY KANE, AND KRISTA ROSE) CLED TO MAKE ANY OF HIS CLIENTS AVAILABLE FOR THIS STORY. BUT SPIEGLER EELY ADMTED THAT HE WOULD NOT ALLOW ANY OF THEM TO WORK WH A RECENT CROSSOVER. “I KEEP TRACK OF GUYS CURRENTLY DOG GAY PORN. IN THE GAY DTRY YOU HAVE TO ASSUME A LOT OF THEM ARE POSIVE WHEN THE HIV POLICY IS DON’T-ASK-DON’T-TELL. SO I WON’T LET ANYONE WORK WH SPIEGLER GIRLS WHO DID GAY PORN THE LAST THREE MONTHS.” BUT HE’S REFUL TO ADD, “I HAVE NO PROBLEM WH PEOPLE HAVG DONE GAY PORN. IT IS JT A SAFETY ISSUE. A LOT OF GUYS, NOT THAT THEY WILL TELL YOU, START OUT GAY PORN AND THEN THEY TRANSN TO STRAIGHT PORN. I AM FE WH THAT.”SPIEGLER TIMAT THAT 15 TO 20 PERCENT OF STRAIGHT MALE PERFORMERS HAVE DONE AT LEAST ONE GAY FILM. PORN STAR CHRISTIAN XXX THKS THE PERCENTAGE IS PROBABLY MUCH HIGHER. ONE OF THE FEW PERFORMERS WHO WILL TALK OPENLY ABOUT WORKG ON BOTH SIS OF THE DTRY, CHRISTIAN GOT HIS START GAY PORN UNR THE NAME MAXX DIEL AND STILL PERFORMS OCSNALLY WH TRANSSEXUALS. AS FOR THE TWO PERFORMER NAM, HE ADMS: “TO BE HONT I DID NOT PLAN TO BE OPEN ABOUT . I WANTED TO WORK STRAIGHT PORN. I DIDN’T WANT PEOPLE TO NOT HIRE ME BEE OF THE STIGMA OF GAY PORN.” BUT HIS DISTCTIVE LOOK RULTED HIS NAME CHANGE, FOOLG NO ONE. “I’M AN ANOMALY. NO ONE ELSE IS GOG TO E FORWARD BEE OF THE STIGMA. MORE WOMEN REFE TO WORK WH ME THAN ANY OTHER GUY THE DTRY. IT ISN’T PERSONAL AND IS NOT HOMOPHOBIA; ’S IGNORANCE. IT IS THE STIGMA OF GAY PORN. I AM ATTACKED EVERY DAY BY SOMEBODY.”GIVEN THE STATS ON HIV AND GAY MEN, AND THE DISPARATE TTG STANDARDS BETWEEN THE TWO DTRI, HOW ULD BE IGNORANCE TO WANT TO AVOID MEN WHO CROSS OVER? THE ANSWER, SAYS CHRISTIAN XXX, LI THE PRIVATE LIV OF MALE PORN STARS. “TO BE STRAIGHT PORN YOU HAVE TO BE A LTLE PERVERTED, A LTLE KKY—YOU N’T BE A NORMAL DU,” HE SAYS. “THE BS ATTRACTS GUYS WHO GET TURNED ON BY THGS THAT ARE OUTSI THE NORM. I WOULD SAY 75 PERCENT OF GUYS THE STRAIGHT PORN BS HAVE EHER DONE GAY PORN, DONE A GUY OFF MERA, OR DONE A SHE-MALE.” IN OTHER WORDS, JT BEE A STRAIGHT PORN ACTOR HASN’T DONE GAY PORN DON’T MEAN HE ISN’T HAVG SEX WH MEN. HE MAY HAVE EVEN GONE GAY-FOR-PAY OFF-MERA—WORKG AS AN RT TO AVOID BEG SEEN GAY PORN. CHRISTIAN POTS OUT ONE OF THE DTRY’S DIRTY LTLE SECRETS: THE GROWG NUMBER OF STRAIGHT MALE PORN STARS WHO WORK AS PROSTUT FOR MEN ON THE SI. “I AM NOT GOG TO OUT ANYBODY,” HE SAYS, “BUT I ULD NAME A LOT OF STRAIGHT MALE PORN STARS WHO RT, AND SOME PRETTY BIG NAM.”IS THAT HOW BURTS GOT FECTED? HE SAYS THAT OUTSI OF WORK HE ONLY HAD SEX WH HIS GIRLIEND, BUT THEN ADMTED TO THE LOS ANGELS TIM THAT HE HAD AN ADVERTISEMENT ON A POPULAR MALE RT WEBSE. (HE CLAIMED HE NEVER ACTUALLY TOOK ANY APPOTMENTS.) BUT THE AIM CLIC, WHERE BURTS WAS TTED, NTRADICTED HIS STORY, TELLG THE TIM THAT “BURTS MT HAVE NTRACTED HIV HIS PERSONAL SEX LIFE.”ESRTG—FOR BOTH MALE AND FEMALE PORN STARS—HAS BEE AN CREASGLY IMPORTANT PART OF EARNG A LIVG FOR PERFORMERS. THE RECSN AND THE RISE OF EE INTER PORN HAS ALT A ONE-TWO PUNCH TO THE FOR-PROF PORN DTRY. WOMEN N EARN MORE WORKG AS AN RT THAN THEY N FOR SHOOTG A SCENE, AND SOMETIM DO THE MOVI SIMPLY TO BUILD THEIR PERSONAL BRAND SO THEY N CHARGE MORE AS PROSTUT. BUT WHEN STRAIGHT MALE PORN STARS RT FOR MEN, ’S JT THE OPPOSE: THEY TRY TO KEEP QUIET. SAYS RAYLENE: “YOU HEAR MORS ABOUT STRAIGHT PERFORMERS ALL THE TIME. MALE PERFORMERS DO THGS THEIR PRIVATE LIFE AND YOU JT DON’T KNOW .”CHRISTIAN XXX, PUTS THIS WAY: “NO ONE, MALE OR FEMALE, IS GETTG OUT OF PORN AND GOG BACK TO FLIPPG BURGERS. THEY ARE GOG TO ATTEMPT TO NTUE MAKG MONEY WH THE PORN DTRY. SCEN, WEBM, WEBS, AND FELY RTG FS THAT BILL.”ULTIMATELY, CHRISTIAN XXX ARGU PERFORMERS HAVE TO BE RPONSIBLE FOR THEIR OWN SAFETY. THE SENTIMENT IS ECHOED BY RAYLENE. AMONG THOSE SHE WORKS WH REGULARLY IS AT LEAST ONE CURRENT CROSSOVER. “BUT I KNOW ABOUT ,” SHE SAYS. “AND I KNOW HE GETS TTED AND HE SAFELY DO THE GAY PORN. IF YOU’RE HONT WH ME AND I KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOG AND YOU’RE TTED, I AM GOG TO WORK WH YOU. YOU HAVE TO BE RPONSIBLE. BUT THERE IS ALWAYS RISK AND YOU ALWAYS WORRY. THAT’S WHY WE’RE PAID THE BIG BUCKS FOR THIS WORK.”RICHARD ABOWZ HAS CHRONICLED THE RISE AND NTUG FALL OF LAS VEGAS FOR OVER A . HE IS THE THOR OF HUNDREDS OF ARTICL FOR LAS VEGAS WEEKLY. ABOWZ IS PERHAPS BT KNOWN FOR WRG THE MOVABLE BUFFET BLOG AND NTUG PRT LUMN FOR LOS ANGEL TIM. IN ADDN TO VERG VEGAS, ABOWZ HAS BEEN WRG ABOUT MIC AND CULTURE FOR ROLLG STONE SCE 1996. IN DECEMBER 2009, ABOWZ LNCHED TO BE AN HONT BROKER REPORTG ON ALL THGS VEGAS. RICHARD ABOWZ

CURRENTLY WORKG GAY PORN STARS THAT ARE HIV POSIVE

Two-time GayVN Award wner, Teddy Torr hails om France but liv Montreal.

Which gay porn stars are HIV posive? Even gay porn stars get shamed for not wantg to work wh poz guys. R23 almost all guys gay porn if they are htlg on the si-as vios are basilly jt ads for this and have been for s-do bare, or will do bare/raw for their clients who pay them lots of money to do R22 we all have our own choic/preferenc.

R14 that guy is bisexual, not gay; but anyone who wants raw/bare is HIV+ or will be soon, and they probably have Hep C as well.

HIV OUTG OF GAY PORN STAR

Mason Wyler, a gay porn star, recently revealed on his blog that he is HIV posive. That fact alone is enough to elic my sympathy, but ’s the circumstanc of his disclosure that disturb me the the uniated (and I have to nfs, I was until I was told about his disclosure), Wyler is a sexy 20-somethg self-scribed "gay sex addict“ (se NSFW, other words ”not suable for work"--which ually means ’s sexually graphic) workg the porn dtry sce all outward appearanc, he seems to be succsful at his chosen profsn. Acrdg to Queerty, Wyler’s self disclosure of his HIV-posive stat me only after several precedg events, cludg speculatn as to why he had cid July to swch to masturbatn-only work, followed by a former roommate (also a porn star) allegg on a blog and tweetg that Wyler was “spreadg disease, ” followed by a post on Augt 19 on the gay porn blog (se NSFW) outg Wyler as HIV appears was the outg that phed Wyler to self disclose.

THIS GAY PORN STAR REVEALED HIS HIV STAT AN SPIRG VIO

As evince, the post c an alleged profile of Wyler on the gay personals se Adam4Adam that lists his HIV stat as negative.

Two proment gay porn blogs, and, reacted negatively to the outg of Wyler’s HIV-posive stat. I’ve e out as gay, as trans, as a sex worker. Unted fear about HIV is so strong that many studs won’t book male talent for “straight” scen if they have done any gay or trans scen, a facto ban on so-lled “crossover” performers regardls of ttg stat.

GAY BAREBACK PORN STAR DI OF HIV RELATED PLITNS

Only mastream workers and big studs unrstand how to accs the tts, and even then, the required panel often sts around $200, when scen n pay as low as $300 or $400 for entry-level or trans and gay talent.

A gay porn star has revealed his HIV stat an spirg vio. Performer John Thomas was diagnosed as HIV+ 2010, but that didn’t stop him grabbg the European gay porn dtry by the balls 2019. As well, plenty of gay studs have operated outsi of the PASS system for s.

As a gay man growg up the shadows of wildly homophobic U.

HIV POSIVE PORN STAR DERRICK BURTS: GAY FOR PAYTHE STRAIGHT MAN WHO SPARKED PORN’S HIV PANIC DID GAY SCEN AND HAD A MALE-RT AD. RICHARD ABOWZ ON HOW MONEY WO ARE FORCG GUYS TO GO “GAY FOR PAY”—AND PUTTG ACTORS AT RISK.RICHARD ABOWZUPDATED JUL. 14, 2017 9:17PM EDT / PUBLISHED DEC. 10, 2010 8:07AM EST DERRICK BURTS, 24, THE ACTOR WHOSE HIV POSIVE TT SPARKED A TEMPORARY SHUTDOWN OF THE US PORN FILMMAKG DTRY, HIS FIRST PUBLIC MENTS HOLLYWOOD, DEC. 8, 2010. (GABRIEL BOUYS, AFP / GETTY IMAG)DERRICK BURTS, A BABY-FACED 24 YEAR OLD OM SUBURBAN LOS ANGEL, HAD BARELY BEGUN HIS PORN REER WHEN HE GOT THE VASTATG NEWS: THE ROUTE HIV TT HE’D TAKEN AT THE ADULT INDTRY MEDIL CLIC (AIM), HAD E BACK POSIVE. THAT WAS TWO MONTHS AGO. PER DTRY PROTOL, AIM IMMEDIATELY NOTIFIED THE PORN MUNY THAT AN FECTED PERFORMER WAS WORKG THEIR MIDST, AND THE BOMBSHELL ANNOUNCEMENT TEMPORARILY BROUGHT THE MASTREAM PORN DTRY TO A VIRTUAL STANDSTILL. BURTS REMAED ANONYMO UNTIL EARLIER THIS WEEK WHEN HE ANNOUNCED AT A PRS NFERENCE THAT HE WAS THE SO-LLED PATIENT ZETA AT THE CENTER OF THE LURID GUSG GAME.BUT THAT DIDN’T PUT THE MATTER TO RT. THE NEW QUTN BEME: HOW DID DERRICK BURTS, WHO SAYS THAT OUTSI OF WORK HIS ONLY SEX PARTNER WAS HIS GIRLIEND, GET FECTED? THE ANSWER TO THAT QUTN MAY REVEAL SOME HARD TTHS ABOUT THE PORN DTRY. BURTS’ GIRLIEND TTED NEGATIVE. AND NO HIV-POSIVE PERFORMER HAS STEPPED FORWARD TO ADM TO WORKG WH BURTS.WHEN TO WORKG A SEX DTRY, HOWEVER, “STRAIGHT” IS A FLEXIBLE TERM. LIKE MANY MALE PORN ACTORS, BURTS SOMETIM WENT “GAY FOR PAY,” PERFORMG BOTH STRAIGHT PORN WH WOMEN UNR THE NAME CAMERON REID, AND GAY PORN WH OTHER MEN UNR THE NAME DEREK CHAMBERS. THE REASON FOR TWO DISTCT NAM IS THAT THE PORN DTRY, DOG BOTH GAY AND STRAIGHT PORN—LLED “CROSSG OVER”—IS BOTH RELATIVELY MON AND ALSO FAIRLY TABOO. MANY FEMALE PERFORMERS BELIEVE THAT THE RISK OF NTRACTG HIV DURG A SCENE IS VASTLY CREASED IF THEIR MALE PARTNER PARTICIPAT GAY PORN. IN OCTOBER, WHEN THE ALARM BELLS WERE FIRST SOUND ABOUT THE STILL ANONYMO PATIENT ZETA, PORN STAR COURTNEY CUMMZ TOLD THE DAILY BEAST SHE WAS “TERRIFIED” BY STARS WHO CROSS OVER, AND THOUGHT THE OCCUPATNAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMISTRATN SHOULD STEP TO PREVENT . “YOU HEAR MORS ABOUT STRAIGHT PERFORMERS ALL THE TIME. MALE PERFORMERS DO THGS THEIR PRIVATE LIFE AND YOU JT DON’T KNOW .” "IT DOWN TO SAFETY,” SHE SAID. “I THK OSHA NEEDS TO E AND THEY NEED TO SERLY REGULATE THIS, BEE EVERY TIME [SOMEONE TTS POSIVE FOR HIV] ’S BEE A PERFORMER IS GOG TO THE SAME-SEX SI. I AM NOT ATTACKG THE GAY DTRY, BEE I LIKE TO WATCH GAY PORN MYSELF. BUT I WILL NOT WORK WH AN DIVIDUAL THAT DO GAY PORN." ANOTHER FEMALE PORN STAR TERVIEWED THIS WEEK AGREED, SAYG SHE WORRI SO MUCH ABOUT MEN WHO CROSS OVER THAT SHE WATCH “A LOT” OF GAY PORN SIMPLY SO SHE N REGNIZE WHO DO AND AVOID WORKG WH THEM. (SHE SAID THAT, BEE OF THE DIFFERENT NAM THEY E, SHE THEIR TATTOOS TO HELP HER KEEP TRACK.)FOR ALL THE LEGIMATE WORRY, OUTBREAKS MASTREAM STRAIGHT PORN REMA SURPRISGLY RARE, PECIALLY NSIRG THE VOLUME OF NTENT SHOT AND HIGH-RISK BEHAVR FILMED. LAST YEAR A PERFORMER TURNED UP POSIVE, SPARKG A PANIC, BUT NO ONE WHO WORKED WH HER WAS DISVERED TO BE FECTED. ACRDG TO PORN SIRS, THE LAST KNOWN OUTBREAK WHERE A POSIVE PERFORMER IS KNOWN TO HAVE FECTED OTHERS WAS 2004.STILL, THE FEAR KEEPS EVERYONE ON EDGE, AND WHILE CUMMZ AND OTHER FEMALE PERFORMERS SIST THEY’RE NOT ANTI-GAY, THE TOPIC REMAS A HOT POTATO THE TY MUNY, WHERE BEG CLOSED-MD ABOUT SEXUALY MAK YOU A HERETIC. FEW ARE WILLG TO GO ON THE RERD ABOUT THEIR NCERNS WH CROSSG OVER. BUT STATISTILLY, THEIR WORRI ARE VALID. FOR ONE THG, ACRDG TO A RECENT STUDY BY THE CDC, MEN WHO HAVE SEX WH MEN ARE 44 TIM MORE LIKELY TO NTRACT HIV THAN MEN WHO DON’T. BUT PERHAPS THE LARGER PERCEIVED PROBLEM IS THAT HIV TTG STANDARDS ARE PLETELY DIFFERENT GAY PORN THAN THEY ARE STRAIGHT PORN. WHILE MOST OF THE STRAIGHT PORN DTRY MANDAT A MONTHLY HIV TTG REGIMEN, A SIGNIFINT PORTN OF THE GAY PORN WORLD NDOMS—YET DON’T REQUIRE S PERFORMERS TO GET TTED.“IN THE BS, THE LAST THG YOU WANT TO DO IS SULT EHER SI,” SAYS PORN STAR RAYLENE, WHO HAPPENED TO BE ON SET WH CUMMZ YTERDAY. RAYLENE WAS EXPLAG WHY, FOR ALL HER TENSY OCTOBER, CUMMZ NOW NO LONGER WANTED TO DISCS HER VIEWS ON CROSSOVER PERFORMERS. FOR THAT SAME REASON, MARK SPIEGLER, THE DTRY’S TOP FEMALE TALENT AGENT (HE REPRENTS BIG DRAWS LIKE BELLADONNA, KIMBERLY KANE, AND KRISTA ROSE) CLED TO MAKE ANY OF HIS CLIENTS AVAILABLE FOR THIS STORY. BUT SPIEGLER EELY ADMTED THAT HE WOULD NOT ALLOW ANY OF THEM TO WORK WH A RECENT CROSSOVER. “I KEEP TRACK OF GUYS CURRENTLY DOG GAY PORN. IN THE GAY DTRY YOU HAVE TO ASSUME A LOT OF THEM ARE POSIVE WHEN THE HIV POLICY IS DON’T-ASK-DON’T-TELL. SO I WON’T LET ANYONE WORK WH SPIEGLER GIRLS WHO DID GAY PORN THE LAST THREE MONTHS.” BUT HE’S REFUL TO ADD, “I HAVE NO PROBLEM WH PEOPLE HAVG DONE GAY PORN. IT IS JT A SAFETY ISSUE. A LOT OF GUYS, NOT THAT THEY WILL TELL YOU, START OUT GAY PORN AND THEN THEY TRANSN TO STRAIGHT PORN. I AM FE WH THAT.”SPIEGLER TIMAT THAT 15 TO 20 PERCENT OF STRAIGHT MALE PERFORMERS HAVE DONE AT LEAST ONE GAY FILM. PORN STAR CHRISTIAN XXX THKS THE PERCENTAGE IS PROBABLY MUCH HIGHER. ONE OF THE FEW PERFORMERS WHO WILL TALK OPENLY ABOUT WORKG ON BOTH SIS OF THE DTRY, CHRISTIAN GOT HIS START GAY PORN UNR THE NAME MAXX DIEL AND STILL PERFORMS OCSNALLY WH TRANSSEXUALS. AS FOR THE TWO PERFORMER NAM, HE ADMS: “TO BE HONT I DID NOT PLAN TO BE OPEN ABOUT . I WANTED TO WORK STRAIGHT PORN. I DIDN’T WANT PEOPLE TO NOT HIRE ME BEE OF THE STIGMA OF GAY PORN.” BUT HIS DISTCTIVE LOOK RULTED HIS NAME CHANGE, FOOLG NO ONE. “I’M AN ANOMALY. NO ONE ELSE IS GOG TO E FORWARD BEE OF THE STIGMA. MORE WOMEN REFE TO WORK WH ME THAN ANY OTHER GUY THE DTRY. IT ISN’T PERSONAL AND IS NOT HOMOPHOBIA; ’S IGNORANCE. IT IS THE STIGMA OF GAY PORN. I AM ATTACKED EVERY DAY BY SOMEBODY.”GIVEN THE STATS ON HIV AND GAY MEN, AND THE DISPARATE TTG STANDARDS BETWEEN THE TWO DTRI, HOW ULD BE IGNORANCE TO WANT TO AVOID MEN WHO CROSS OVER? THE ANSWER, SAYS CHRISTIAN XXX, LI THE PRIVATE LIV OF MALE PORN STARS. “TO BE STRAIGHT PORN YOU HAVE TO BE A LTLE PERVERTED, A LTLE KKY—YOU N’T BE A NORMAL DU,” HE SAYS. “THE BS ATTRACTS GUYS WHO GET TURNED ON BY THGS THAT ARE OUTSI THE NORM. I WOULD SAY 75 PERCENT OF GUYS THE STRAIGHT PORN BS HAVE EHER DONE GAY PORN, DONE A GUY OFF MERA, OR DONE A SHE-MALE.” IN OTHER WORDS, JT BEE A STRAIGHT PORN ACTOR HASN’T DONE GAY PORN DON’T MEAN HE ISN’T HAVG SEX WH MEN. HE MAY HAVE EVEN GONE GAY-FOR-PAY OFF-MERA—WORKG AS AN RT TO AVOID BEG SEEN GAY PORN. CHRISTIAN POTS OUT ONE OF THE DTRY’S DIRTY LTLE SECRETS: THE GROWG NUMBER OF STRAIGHT MALE PORN STARS WHO WORK AS PROSTUT FOR MEN ON THE SI. “I AM NOT GOG TO OUT ANYBODY,” HE SAYS, “BUT I ULD NAME A LOT OF STRAIGHT MALE PORN STARS WHO RT, AND SOME PRETTY BIG NAM.”IS THAT HOW BURTS GOT FECTED? HE SAYS THAT OUTSI OF WORK HE ONLY HAD SEX WH HIS GIRLIEND, BUT THEN ADMTED TO THE LOS ANGELS TIM THAT HE HAD AN ADVERTISEMENT ON A POPULAR MALE RT WEBSE. (HE CLAIMED HE NEVER ACTUALLY TOOK ANY APPOTMENTS.) BUT THE AIM CLIC, WHERE BURTS WAS TTED, NTRADICTED HIS STORY, TELLG THE TIM THAT “BURTS MT HAVE NTRACTED HIV HIS PERSONAL SEX LIFE.”ESRTG—FOR BOTH MALE AND FEMALE PORN STARS—HAS BEE AN CREASGLY IMPORTANT PART OF EARNG A LIVG FOR PERFORMERS. THE RECSN AND THE RISE OF EE INTER PORN HAS ALT A ONE-TWO PUNCH TO THE FOR-PROF PORN DTRY. WOMEN N EARN MORE WORKG AS AN RT THAN THEY N FOR SHOOTG A SCENE, AND SOMETIM DO THE MOVI SIMPLY TO BUILD THEIR PERSONAL BRAND SO THEY N CHARGE MORE AS PROSTUT. BUT WHEN STRAIGHT MALE PORN STARS RT FOR MEN, ’S JT THE OPPOSE: THEY TRY TO KEEP QUIET. SAYS RAYLENE: “YOU HEAR MORS ABOUT STRAIGHT PERFORMERS ALL THE TIME. MALE PERFORMERS DO THGS THEIR PRIVATE LIFE AND YOU JT DON’T KNOW .”CHRISTIAN XXX, PUTS THIS WAY: “NO ONE, MALE OR FEMALE, IS GETTG OUT OF PORN AND GOG BACK TO FLIPPG BURGERS. THEY ARE GOG TO ATTEMPT TO NTUE MAKG MONEY WH THE PORN DTRY. SCEN, WEBM, WEBS, AND FELY RTG FS THAT BILL.”ULTIMATELY, CHRISTIAN XXX ARGU PERFORMERS HAVE TO BE RPONSIBLE FOR THEIR OWN SAFETY. THE SENTIMENT IS ECHOED BY RAYLENE. AMONG THOSE SHE WORKS WH REGULARLY IS AT LEAST ONE CURRENT CROSSOVER. “BUT I KNOW ABOUT ,” SHE SAYS. “AND I KNOW HE GETS TTED AND HE SAFELY DO THE GAY PORN. IF YOU’RE HONT WH ME AND I KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOG AND YOU’RE TTED, I AM GOG TO WORK WH YOU. YOU HAVE TO BE RPONSIBLE. BUT THERE IS ALWAYS RISK AND YOU ALWAYS WORRY. THAT’S WHY WE’RE PAID THE BIG BUCKS FOR THIS WORK.”RICHARD ABOWZ HAS CHRONICLED THE RISE AND NTUG FALL OF LAS VEGAS FOR OVER A . HE IS THE THOR OF HUNDREDS OF ARTICL FOR LAS VEGAS WEEKLY. ABOWZ IS PERHAPS BT KNOWN FOR WRG THE MOVABLE BUFFET BLOG AND NTUG PRT LUMN FOR LOS ANGEL TIM. IN ADDN TO VERG VEGAS, ABOWZ HAS BEEN WRG ABOUT MIC AND CULTURE FOR ROLLG STONE SCE 1996. IN DECEMBER 2009, ABOWZ LNCHED TO BE AN HONT BROKER REPORTG ON ALL THGS VEGAS. RICHARD ABOWZ

“There’s still a persistent associatn wh HIV and gay men particular, ” explas Thomas.

But there’s also a silver lg: Bee gay men have been the targets of such stigma, many of them have also bee -facto experts on the latt novatns HIV treatment. “Partly bee of that, there’s better knowledge amongst gay men of what ‘untectable’ means, ” he ntu.

S., but almost all are gay, and therefore, they’re likely to be workg wh studs outsi of PASS.

Gay adult star Josh Wton (real name Chad) has died aged 39. This is somethg that I believe many of gay men al wh on different levels om time to time. Like many male porn actors, Burts sometim went “gay for pay, ” performg both straight porn wh women unr the name Cameron Reid, and gay porn wh other men unr the name Derek Chambers.