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.
