Editing Bugchasing (section)

== Media and culture ==
American filmmaker Louise Hogarth released a documentary, ''[[The Gift (2003 film)|The Gift]]'', in the same year the ''Rolling Stone'' piece was published. It focused on narratives of bugchasers,{{sfn|Huebenthal|2017|loc=paras. 34–35}} emphasizing the self-reported positive aspects of HIV infection.{{sfn|Breitfeller|Kanekar|2012|pp=117–118}} Three years later, Ricky Dyer, an HIV-positive man, released a documentary through [[BBC3]] entitled "I love being HIV+", suggesting that most bugchasing activity is simply fantasy.{{sfn|Shoffman|2006}} In 2009, gay playwright [[Erik Patterson]] ran the tragicomedy ''He Asked For It'',{{sfn|Parashar|2009}} dealing with bugchasing and HIV-positive status in contemporary [[Hollywood, Los Angeles|Hollywood]].{{sfn|Los Angeles Times|p=E20}} Bugchasing was also a part of the show ''[[Queer as Folk (American TV series)|Queer as Folk]]''.{{sfn|Crook|2004|p=2}}

In 2012, Canadian Steven Boone was tried and convicted of three counts each of attempted murder and aggravated sexual assault after having unprotected sex with four men after previously contracting HIV. A self-described "poz vampire"—the word ''poz'' referring to acquiring HIV{{sfn|García-Iglesias|2020a|p=221}}—he was immersed in bugchasing culture. His convictions on attempted murder have since been quashed after appealing to the [[Court of Appeal for Ontario]], while the aggravated sexual assault convictions remain. The appeals court said it was not proven in the original case that he intended to kill his sexual partners; it offered the government the possibility of a new trial.{{sfn|Yogaretnam|2019|p=A4}}