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By: Keith Witchka, Senior Editor | JRL CHARTS - Gay Adult News LAS VEGAS, NV — (June 12, 2025) — JRL CHARTS Gay Adult News has confirmed that the adult industry’s temporary production hold, initially triggered by an HIV reactive test reported on June 10, has officially been lifted. PASS (Performer Availability Screening Services) announced [...]
LOS ANGELES, CA — (June 10, 2025) — In a bombshell development, JRL CHARTS Gay Adult News confirms that PASS has enacted an emergency production hold after a performer tested positive for HIV. The announcement has sent shockwaves through the adult entertainment industry, spanning all genres and raising serious concerns about performer safety and testing [...]
LOS ANGELES — (07-27-22) — PASS, the talent testing oversight organization announced on Wednesday that they are partnering with the Los Angeles LGBT Center to provide Monkeypox Vaccines for LGBT adult stars. PASS issued the following advisory on Wednesday: PASS has released preliminary Monkeypox health and safety guidelines for adult film production and, are advising [...]
CHATSWORTH, CA — (03-25-20) — The Free Speech Coalition (FSC) announced Wednesday afternoon that the industry-wide, mandatory production hold in effect since March 17 has now been lifted, however the voluntary hold called two days earlier due to the COVID-19 outbreak remains in place. The Free Speech Coalition (FSC) announcement: We are lifting the mandatory [...]
EUROPE — (01-15-19) — The Free Speech Coalition today responded to the reports of two adult film stars contracting syphilis in Prague and have issued the following statement: "We believe that those performers may have worked while asymptomatic or un-diagnosed. Unlike shoots in the US and Canada, productions in Europe do not generally participate in [...]