“I’m a bit hesitant to talk about all this. I don’t know what the impact will be. But I’m only doing it because it might help somebody — and to say that there is no such thing as casual crystal meth use!”

“If we’re a negative bottom, we assume no one would fuck us without a condom unless they, too, were negative. If we’re an HIV-positive top, we assume that a bottom would not allow themselves to be fucked without a condom unless they, too, were positive. These assumptions are often wrong and, frankly, deadly. We simply must talk to each other.”

“When we were all done, [the producers] said, ‘We didn’t expect you guys to be so upset.’ I said: ‘What did you expect? Did you expect these really nice people to go on a show together and be told this horrible, horrible lie and just think, oh, that’s fun?’ I said: ‘We gave you our trust once, and you destroyed it. We’re going to give it back to you and hope you make a really good show.’ And I think they did a good job editing the show and getting a lot of different perspectives, and I do think it did raise awareness. It does suck being the — I don’t know what the word is, not the victim, necessarily.”