09/27/2026
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Jacob Tierney, the man behind the gay hockey romance Heated Rivalry, got HIV at 34, and the illnesses that followed left him, in his words, "basically dying all the time."
"It was really, really bad," the director, 47 today, said on the Good Morning, Sodomites! podcast in 2022. He got very sick and lost a lot of weight. Then Type 1 diabetes went undiagnosed for months until his HIV doctor caught it - two weeks, he said, from complete kidney failure.
His show is the opposite kind of story, on purpose. Nobody ends up back with a miserable wife. Nobody is punished for loving a man. When a corporate note called one s*x scene too quick, his reaction was that it ran six and a half minutes.
Q***r stories, he has said, keep going back to tragedy. He wanted a gay show that was s*xy, h*rny and fun - and he got to make it.