WEBNET- The primary difference is that mainstream straight adult industry requires HIV testing and will not allow HIV+ performers to work.

The majority of the gay bareback producers do not require testing and allow HIV+ performers to be in films. They usually just ask the performers their HIV status and then try to pair HIV negative with HIV negative, and HIV positive with HIV positive. This practice is called sero-sorting, matching like HIV status together.

The majority of non-bareback gay producers also do not require testing, but instead use condoms for all anal sex and many also ask and do sero-sorting as well. HIV status is a still a very personal and private thing for many gaymen.

The other major difference is that HIV+ performers are banned from performing in the straight industry. Whereas in the gay side of the industry up to 25-30% of performers are HIV+. This is very much a taboo subject within the industry and many do not want to disclose or discuss it. I don't think many people on the straight side of the industry really understand what's going on the gay part of the industry.

HIV is a part of gay men lives much more so than it is in the straight community. More than half of all new HIV cases in the USA are in gay men. We are affected more then the straight community. That does not make it a "gay disease", it simply makes it a disease that affects us more. (In terms of full disclosure I am personally HIV+)