I get asked about bare backing all the time so I finally felt that I had to makes my feelings public.
I will never, ever make a gay porn bare backing movie – though I have often been approached to do so. Making bare backing films is a personal choice and it is my right not to make one – no matter how much money I am offered.
I am not alone in my feelings about bare backing. Chi Chi La Rue at Channel1releasing has just made a wonderfully directed video against bare backing. (Go to: safesexishotsex.com.) Its is skillfully shot and edited, a way cool MTV-like piece and she gets an A+ in my book for being a role model to her audience. Bruce Cam and Keith Webb over at Titan Films have also come down hard against Bare Backing, and I salute them, too. Kudos to JCAdams and Will Clark and so many others who have spoken out against bare backing.
AIDS has tortured our planet but also has humanized it with a potent gay civil rights movement. But do our new-found civil rights include the right to spread the disease to models who inject the virus into the ‘gaping anus’ of young porn stars? I applaud Chi Chi La Rue, Bruce Cam and Keith Webb for their bold anti-AIDS/anti-bareback position at the David Awards. Those of us who were making porn back in the pre-condom days have seen the AIDS deaths of most of the stars of that era.
In the late 1980s, I put down my porn camera and started making documentaries about AIDS. I was jailed in Houston with many ACT UP activists who joined me to protest the first George Bush Republican government’s wish for our quick demise. While in Houston’s Harris County Jail, on TV I saw Pat Buchanan, from the Republican convention floor, calling for a moral cleansing of our country. To me that meant ‘get rid of the AIDS fags and their perverted ways’.
Many of my friends were sick; many of my lovers were dead or dying. I know very few porn stars who survived those days. Is making more money worth the death of those who perform in our films? How many more gay boys need to die? How can I look at myself in the mirror in the morning if the night before I directed some young guy to shoot his viral load into another boy’s ass?
To many it is just gay product – a lucrative niche. To me it is a matter of life and death. Condoms save lives.
Act up! Fight back! Fight AIDS!

When I heard about Mandi Hamlin, who was briefly detained at LAX because her nipple rings set off a metal detector, I got really angry. Mandi was forced by snickering male TSA agents to remove one of her rings with a pliers. What the fuck is going on at LAX? I have been wearing a nipple ring for 10 years. I have never taken it off and have been advised against taking it out; I would have to be re-pierced.
I partied with Porn King Collin O’Neal New Year’s Eve in the VIP booth at Here Lounge’s Snow Party in West Hollywood. The club had 10 tons of snow delivered and featured a low-flying fog and a major blizzard at midnight. From behind the red rope, O’Neil and his bevy of boyfriends were having a blast – as were all the happy peeps ringing in the New Year. The Go-Go boys and most of the other sexy patrons did not wait till midnight to start some hot New Year’s Eve smooching. Deep-soul-kissing was driving everybody wild! I led my date Ben out on the patio to cool down, get some air and I smoked a really phat cigar. We sipped Champagne and toasted the New Year and Ben wished me luck on my new webite. The music was banging, so I crushed out my stogie in the artificial snow and we went back inside to dance. Later, back at home in my West Hollywood digs, we opened up another bottle of some really fine bubbly and Ben and I had our own party.
