Required for work to be tested once a month, Dixon got his diagnosis from a Nashville clinic. I made them all over, Florida and Los Angeles, mostly,” said Dixon, who described Fort Lauderdale as a porn “hub.” “The very first films I had ever filmed were bareback,” said Dixon, who never knew for sure who infected him. When the team was out of town, I could film. In Fort Lauderdale he met a porn-film agent who offered him work. He quit school and moved to South Florida. In early 2008, Dixon got a job offer from the Florida Marlins to work in the clubhouse. He worked part-time, played college baseball and had academic scholarships. In Wilton Manors years, I’m ancient.” Dixon left home in Norfolk, Va., at age 18, moved to Baton Rouge and enrolled at Louisiana State University. I can’t go to work because I can’t leave the bathroom.’ There was no one saying that, especially someone my age. There wasn’t anyone saying, ‘This is what I go through. There were support groups online, chat forums, but there was no one telling their story. “Willing to put himself at risk to make a difference for others.” Dixon tells why: “I saw there was nothing out there. “He symbolizes to me what gay men should be: open, out and unashamed about how he is and what he has done,” said Dixon’s boss, SFGN publisher and Fort Lauderdale attorney Norm Kent. Saturday night, he will record a World AIDS Day 2012 vigil in Wilton Manors for his website, QueerChannel Network. “It felt like, ‘What have I done in life? Is it karma?’” Dixon - once known as porn star Kameron Scott - is documenting his life with a weekly column, My HIV Diary, in South Florida Gay News. “I often thought about the words my dad said to me,” he said. “My father said I would die of AIDS and go to hell.” Eight years later, Dixon of Wilton Manors contracted HIV having unprotected sex in gay porn films. He met Ryan after school with the preacher.
BY STEVE ROTHAUS, When Ryan Dixon was 13, his Baptist dad went through a backpack and found a picture of his son and a boyfriend.