Pornography and the kink community often lie on the outskirts of the mainstream LGBT collective conscious, which makes them easy targets, I would love to continue my work of being an advocate for these marginalized voices."
"I was recently re-reading ‘The Handmaids Tale’ and one of the first items that the government outlawed was pornography. "I am knowledgeable and passionate about the adult entertainment industry and issues concerning freedom of expression," he said. One thing is for certain: Bailey will remain involved with the adult film industry, albeit as an advocate. I want to be an advocate and activist for the LGBT, kink, and HIV-positive communities, and working for myself may best allow me to pursue these goals." "The idea of starting my own practice intrigues me and I’ve been looking at a few incubator programs that UC Hastings and the State of California offer. "I still have some time to make this decision," he said. "Classes such as copyright, trademark, and privacy peaked my interest because they combined my passion for media and the law."īailey has yet to decide if he'll join a firm or start his own private practice. "I want to continue working with artists and people who create," he said. Friendly is an international, yet grassroots movement to reduce stigma of HIV, encouraging testing for HIV, and improve quality of life for those living with HIV in friendly ways."īailey said intellectual property is his field of expertise. "I was recently appointed to the position of Mister Friendly Leather SF 2018, which allows me to showcase ’s mission at the Mister San Francisco Leather 2018 contest. "Since graduating, I was elected to serve on the Board of Directors for Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom, the nation’s oldest and largest LGBT bar association," he said. My note, "Sex Panic and Videotape," detailed California’s Proposition 60 and AIDS Healthcare Foundations failed power grab to dictate the choice of adult entertainment performers."īailey was referring to the AIDS' Healthcare Foundation, a non-profit health clinic, and its support for a now defeated California ballot measure which would have forced California porn models to use condoms in all scenes. "Through the journal, I produced two symposia concerning the HIV and LGBT communities, and I even published my first work as a legal scholar.
"I served as president of the student LGBT group ‘OUTLAW’ and Managing Editor of the ‘Hastings Women’s Law Journal,’" he said. I took a lot of time and perseverance to slowly gain my confidence." I felt inadequate and out of place on several occasions. On top of that, everyone competes against each other for a curved grade.
Being thrown into a class full of extremely smart students from fancy schools all over the world was intimidating. "I graduated from UC Hastings Law School (in San Francisco) this past May," Bailey told SFGN. When we last chatted with retired gay porn star Blue Bailey he was getting ready to start attending law school. His unabashed views on bareback sex and his performance in ‘Viral Loads’ made him one of the most controversial porn stars around at that time. ” It quickly became one of SFGN’s most read stories and remains so today. SFGN originally interviewed Blue Baily in 2014 in an article “ Life After Porn: Controversial Blue Bailey Talks HIV And Barebacking.