Rod Daily, Gay Porn Star, Says He Is HIV Positive

 

 

 

A second adult-film performer revealed Tuesday that he has tested HIV positive, two weeks after his girlfriend, who also has worked in the porn industry, said she was infected with the virus. IF YOU MISSED THE STORY CLICK HERE.
Joshua Rodgers, 32, who works in gay porn under the stage name Rod Daily, said his doctors determined that he had been infected recently.
"I know it happened last month," he said in an interview Tuesday with the Daily News. "I know I don't have a crazy lifestyle."
Last month, porn actress Cameron Bay said she tested HIV positive, which led to a weeklong shutdown of adult film production across the San Fernando Valley and beyond. Bay has worked in the industry since 2010, but not on a regular basis, her agent has said.
Rodgers has worked exclusively in gay porn since 2010 on sets that require condoms, he said.
He also said he has been dating Bay for more than a year but did not want to draw conclusions on how he was infected.
The AIDS Healthcare Foundation, a Los Angeles-based group that has worked aggressively to promote mandatory use of condoms in porn, pointed to the incident as another example of the industry's failure to police itself.