The medical information included in the film is presented by Mike Youle, a British doctor specialising in HIV treatment.

Gay Man's Guide to Safer Sex '97 featured a radical recut of some of the original scenes asking the British Board of Film Classification to look again at what was permissible and becoming one of the first programmes to discuss the breakthrough of Triple Combination Therapy and the ramifications and personal experiences of living with HIV.

[citation needed] Gay Man's Guide to Safer Sex '97 premiered to a sellout audience at the BFI National Film Theatre on London's South Bank and was exhibited around the world on the international festival circuit.

[1] Original Executive Producer Tony Carne and Terrence Higgins Trust Campaigns Director Richard Angell were the guests for a post-show ScreenTalk.

[4] Original cast members health educator and London Service Director Mark Maguire and Jono Wolf also attended.