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Contents:

• THE GAY BOWEL SYNDROME: A MON PROBLEM OF HOMOSEXUAL PATIENTS THE EMERGENCY PARTMENT
• GAY-RELATED IMMUNE FICIENCY
• OUTBREAK OF BACTERIAL ILLNS AMONG GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN FLORIDA HAS LEFT AT LEAST 7 AD
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY

THE GAY BOWEL SYNDROME: A MON PROBLEM OF HOMOSEXUAL PATIENTS THE EMERGENCY PARTMENT

Get Vaccated: Gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex wh men have a greater chance of gettg Hepatis A, Hepatis B, and HPV. Edor—Smh et al's article on patients' experienc of treatments for homosexualy sce the 1950s should be seen as part of a renciliatn procs between society and medice and lbian, gay, and bisexual people. 1 The chary Md has produced an outstandg rource, Lbians, Gay Men and Bisexuals and Mental Health, which provis valuable rmatn—as well as tailg recent abive unsellg and psychotherapy.

2​Figure 1In the early 1990s I ed to volunteer on the Aberen Lbian and Gay Swchboard, and I rell receivg three lls om people who had unrgone electroshock therapy the recent past and om one young man who was unrgog at the time. I was totally horrified at the extent to which fay and relig prsure was seemgly the ma driver tryg to cure healthy people by the applitn of totally appropriate “medil” Uned Kgdom has changed for the better, and now some gree of legal protectn is afford to gay, lbian, and bisexual people. I hope that lsons learnt om the recent past of how “medice” appropriately treated “homosexuals” will better rm how we treat people whose only disease is not to nform to society's norms.

Treatments of homosexualy Bra sce the 1950s—an oral history: the experience of patients.

GAY-RELATED IMMUNE FICIENCY

The gay bowel syndrome: a mon problem of homosexual patients the emergency partment. Sexually transmted bowel and rectal diseas are mon gay men and are ed by a wi variety of fect agents.

Each of the enti implited the gay bowel syndrome is nsired separately and epimlogic nsiratns rponsible for the appearance of such a syndrome are examed.

Gay bowel syndrome. Clil approach to ttal fectns homosexual men. Enteric diseas of homosexual men.

OUTBREAK OF BACTERIAL ILLNS AMONG GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN FLORIDA HAS LEFT AT LEAST 7 AD

The gay bowel.

Gay-related immune ficiencyGay-related immune ficiency (GRID) (sometim rmally lled the gay plague or GRIDS, standg for Gay-related immune ficiency syndrome) was the origal name for AIDS, a name proposed after public health scientists noticed clters of Kaposi's sara and Pnmocystis pnmonia among gay mal California and New York Cy. [1] Durg the early history of AIDS, an ad hoc anizatn lled Gay Men's Health Crisis was found to bat what was then thought to be a homosexual-only disease perhaps produced by high levels of promiscuy, traveno dg e, and age of poppers.

In this new name, scientists were supported by polil figur who realized that the term "gay-related" did not accurately scribe the mographic that the disease affected. ^ A Clter of Kaposi's Sara and Pnmocystis rii Pnmonia among Homosexual Male Rints of Los Angel and Orange Counti, California.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT COACH KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY AFTER COMG OUT AS GAY

Feral and state health officials are vtigatg an outbreak of mengocl disease Florida primarily fectg men who intify as gay, bisexual or men who have sex wh of Tuday, at least 24 s have been nfirmed and seven people have died, acrdg to the Centers for Disease Control and outbreak is so severe that the feral health agency is llg "one of worst outbreaks of mengocl disease among gay and bisexual men U.

Although the disease has been primarily intified the gay and bisexual muny, there is currently no evince that is a sexually transmted fectn. Certa people are at higher risk for beg fected, cludg those who live crowd plac or have HIV, but is not a so-lled "gay disease, " Ch-Hong said.

"In fact, more people who are not gay get mengocl fectn. "Ch-Hong said the risk to the public is low bee mengocl outbreaks tend to be regnal and typilly do not spread om state to he urged people to follow the CDC's advice, which is that anyone who intifi as gay, bisexual or men who have sex wh men gets a mengocl vacce if they live Florida or plan on travelg to Florida.

José Romero, director of the CDC's Natnal Center for Immunizatn and Rpiratory Diseas, said a ntued, "Bee of the outbreak Florida, and the number of Pri events beg held across the state g weeks, 's important that gay and bisexual men who live Florida get vaccated, and those travelg to Florida talk to their healthre provir about gettg a MenACWY vacce. Gay and bisexual men n take the followg steps to rce their risk of HIV fectn:. Kev Maxen, an assistant ach for the Jacksonville Jaguars, ma sports history after publicly g out as gay.

Maxen’s disclosure is a historic one, makg him the first openly gay ach of a U.

Maxen’s announcement two years after NFL star Carl Nassib beme the league’s first active openly gay player.

“I jt wanted to take a quick moment to say that I’m gay, ” the former Las Vegas Rairs player, 30, revealed a June 2021 Instagram vio.

Forty years ago this summer, the first news emerged about rare diseas that were killg gay and bisexual men.

“Rare Cancer Seen 41 Homosexuals, ” the headle read the article by Lawrence K. They were sexually active gay and bi men, although the paper didn’t e the term “gay” at the time. A month earlier, the CDC newsletter had rried a story about another rare disease, pnmocystis pnmonia, or PCP, seen five gay men Los Angel.