Channel 1 Releasing is proud to announce that its new safe sex Public Service Announcement (PSA) video starring legendary porn director Chi Chi LaRue was featured on the British Broadcasting Corporation’s (BBC’s) popular “Newsnight” program in the United Kingdom.The exclusive “Newsnight” investigation report highlighting the health risks of bareback gay porn featured a two-minute clip from Channel 1 Releasing’s controversial PSA starring safer sex advocate Chi Chi LaRue and his very public stance against bareback films and model safety on porn sets around the globe.
The well-balanced, 15-minute segment also reported on the three models who contracted HIV on a UK porn set last October, the case of British producer, Rufus Ffoulkes, who was jailed last week on a child pornography charge for putting a 16-year-old boy in a gay porn film in which he had unprotected sex and included several interviews with gay community leaders, health professionals as well as with former models and models presently working in the U.K. who have not only appeared in barebacking films, but who have also contracted the HIV virus while performing on bareback sets.
“I couldn’t be happier that our new PSA was featured in this very important report by the BBC,” says Channel 1 Releasing partner and award-winning director Chi Chi LaRue, “... This PSA was important for me, personally, to make because of the issue of model safety on porn sets, as well as to inform consumers that the gorgeous models that they see in these videos are real people and that the danger that they are exposing themselves to in making barebacking films is REAL. I hope that message is heard loud and clear in the U.K. as well as around the world!”
The complete 4-minute safe sex PSA is available for viewing on Channel 1 Releasing’s new website SafeSexIsHotSex and includes an open letter from LaRue with his stance on the barebacking vs. safer sex in gay porn issue; as well as links that contain important statistical information, used in the PSA, from the Center For Disease Control (CDC), APLA, AMFAR, AIDS Healthcare Foundation, AIDS Map News (NAM), LAMA and The New York Times.
To see the BBC’s “Newsnight” broadcast featuring Chi Chi LaRue and the “Safe Sex Is Hot Sex” PSA clip visit BBC.
