LOS ANGELES — On the heels of yet another new HIV infection found in an adult film performer working in California’s multi-billion dollar porn industry, AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) sent an open letter to California State Assembly Speaker John A. Perez:

Dear Assembly Speaker John Perez:

Now that there has been a third case of HIV in the adult film industry, we implore you to free AB 640 and allow it to come to a vote before the Legislature adjourns. We respectfully ask you to break the deadlock that has left this bill in limbo before one more person becomes infected with HIV or any other sexually transmitted illness.

A clear message must be sent to the pornographers that they cannot defy the laws of the City and County of Los Angeles and the State of California. We ask you to personally come to the rescue of workers in this industry like you have on behalf of every other California workplace.