What Provcetown's gay muny n teach about ntag Covid, vis shame, and stigmatize ntractg Delta variant.
Contents:
- WHAT PROVCETOWN’S GAY COMMUNY CAN TEACH US ABOUT CONTAG COVID
- HOW A GAY COMMUNY HELPED THE CDC SPOT A COVID OUTBREAK — AND LEARN MORE ABOUT DELTA
- I SPENT $5,200 TO GO ON AN ALL-GAY CISE — AND SPENT THE ENTIRE 10 DAYS ISOLATN WHEN I TTED POSIVE FOR COVID
- TRAVEL SAFETY REPORT: 20 WORST PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2021
- GAY TRAVEL TOURS & TRIPS
- GAY BARS WERE H HARD BY COVID, BUT MOST HAVE MA IT BACK AHEAD OF PRI WEEKEND
- 5 SAFT PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2019 (AND THE MOST DANGERO)
WHAT PROVCETOWN’S GAY COMMUNY CAN TEACH US ABOUT CONTAG COVID
* a gay vacation town got hit with covid *
What Provcetown’s Gay Communy Can Teach Us About Contag Covid.
HOW A GAY COMMUNY HELPED THE CDC SPOT A COVID OUTBREAK — AND LEARN MORE ABOUT DELTA
I was so exced for the all-gay cise on the Royal Atlantis I spent over $5k on, but after boardg, I tted posive for COVID and was isolated. * a gay vacation town got hit with covid *
In that sense, the succs story of this outbreak is how well was documented and reported by the muny of people, large part gay men, who’d been Provcetown at the time. Disclosg tails about your health, rg for one another your muny, and advotg for your own healthre has been tegral to gay culture sce the HIV/AIDS panmic began the 1980s.
He thks there’s somethg special about the town’s legacy gay culture, too. Daskalakis isn’t surprised at all this group of gay men stepped up. “Gay and other men who have sex wh men’s relatnship wh public health has been tempered by fire to a new kd of tst, ” he says.
The speed of the vtigatn — and the exceptnal participatn om the mostly gay men volved the outbreak — helped the CDC learn new rmatn about the lta variant. As they do every year, thoands of gay men arrived for the holiday this ltle artist muny on the tip of Cape Cod to rent ttag, go to the beach and drag shows and rtrants, and crowd to nightclubs to dance. He started thkg to himself, he says, that given that vaccatn rat were really high among the gay muny and Provcetown, "the odds don't really add up.
I SPENT $5,200 TO GO ON AN ALL-GAY CISE — AND SPENT THE ENTIRE 10 DAYS ISOLATN WHEN I TTED POSIVE FOR COVID
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"The norms of the gay muny say: Share your medil history, share your risks wh other people so that they n be rponsible and take re of themselv as well, " he says.
TRAVEL SAFETY REPORT: 20 WORST PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2021
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On lls wh public health officials, Donnelly says he and LeVassr tried to expla, not jt their spreadsheet and analysis, but the ntext of what Provcetown is like durg the annual gay pilgrimage weeks.
"Even for — even for gay men who have been the gay nightlife scene for years and years, 's not the easit thg the world to go to a meetg wh 10 CDC epimlogy experts and expla the trici of Circu Week vers Bear Week and jt how many hundreds of people they n squeeze to those spac wh terrible mic, " Donnelly lghs. Gay men's relatnship to public health has been "tempered by fire bee of HIV, " the CDC's Daskalakis says. Dave Benbow booked an all-gay cise the Mederranean for $5, 200 and was so exced to go.
GAY TRAVEL TOURS & TRIPS
This as-told-to say is based on a nversatn wh Dave Benbow, a 61-year-old om LA who booked a trip on a 10-day Mederranean all-gay cise leavg om Rome at the end of Augt and tted posive for COVID the first day on board.
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GAY BARS WERE H HARD BY COVID, BUT MOST HAVE MA IT BACK AHEAD OF PRI WEEKEND
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5 SAFT PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2019 (AND THE MOST DANGERO)
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