Monkeypox: public health advice for gay, bisexual and other men who have sex wh men

HOW GAY MEN SAVED US FROM MPOX
CDC OFFICIALS SOUND ALARM FOR GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN AS MONKEYPOX SPREADS MUNY
OPN GAY MEN N FIGHT MONKEYPOX OURSELV — BY CHANGG HOW WE HAVE SEX
UNRSTANDG MONKEYPOX AMONG GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN
MONKEYPOX IS SPREADG AMONG GAY MEN WORLDWI
MONKEYPOX: PUBLIC HEALTH ADVICE FOR GAY, BISEXUAL AND OTHER MEN WHO HAVE SEX WH MEN

HOW GAY MEN SAVED US FROM MPOX

Anyone n get or spread monkeypox, but a “notable actn of s” the latt global outbreak are happeng among gay and bisexual men, the US Centers for Disease Control and Preventn said Monday. “Some groups may have a greater chance of exposure right now, but by no means is the current risk of exposure to monkeypox exclively to the gay and bisexual muny the US, ” said Dr.

CDC OFFICIALS SOUND ALARM FOR GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN AS MONKEYPOX SPREADS MUNY

“Anyone, anyone, n velop [and] spread monkeypox fectn, but … many of those affected the current global outbreak intified as gay and bisexual men.

So while we are seeg some s among men who have sex wh men, this is not a gay disease, ” WHO adviser Andy Seale said Monday. While anyone n get monkeypox, the current outbreak is overwhelmgly affectg sexually active gay, bisexual and other men who have sex wh men.

Many untri are offerg vaccatns to sexually active gay and bisexual men who are at greatt risk of ntractg the disease. One of the difficulti is that gay and bisexual men reprent a margalised muny that has already faced stigmatisatn and discrimatn, particularly durg the HIV/Aids panmic.

OPN GAY MEN N FIGHT MONKEYPOX OURSELV — BY CHANGG HOW WE HAVE SEX

Half-naked gay men stood wh their pants around their ankl while clicians crouched between their legs, swabs at the ready. In early May of 2022, mpox found s way to gay rav Spa and Belgium, huge annual parti that draw men om all over the world.

UNRSTANDG MONKEYPOX AMONG GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN

So this outbreak that started gay and bisexual muni mostly stayed those muni, but not for long. Both health officials and the media failed to expedly warn and engage the gay muny the outbreak’s ccial first the first s were reported among gay and bisexual men the Wt, health thori and the media uldn’t brg themselv to say the word “gay.

MONKEYPOX IS SPREADG AMONG GAY MEN WORLDWI

” To avoid stigmatizg gay and bisexual men, early reports buried the lead. The Associated Prs didn’t mentn that this outbreak was beg seen almost exclively gay men until 15 paragraphs to one report; other reports didn’t mentn gay and bisexual men at all. A gay man snng headl May of last year might have learned of an outbreak — but unls he had traveled to Wt Ai recently, or had ntact wh fected ronts or primat, he uld have easily nclud that he wasn’t at this sire to avoid stigmatizg gay and bisexual men was unrstandable, wasn’t helpful.

We know gay sex has been unfairly blamed for everythg om natural disasters to the fall of Rome. But their efforts to avoid stigmatizg the muny, health thori and the media failed to effectively warn gay and bisexual men. Ignorant of the threat as the vis spread, gay and bisexual men uldn’t take steps to protect themselv and their partners.

Gay men wh mpox were turned away om urgent re clics and emergency rooms. Cas began to appear a small handful of transgenr people and cisgenr women and children, raisg alarm about wir after was evint that this paful, potentially disfigurg or even fatal fectn was spreadg through gay men’s sexual works, public health officials and the media were hant to give the same advice they had given eely at the begng of the Covid panmic: Lim your number of sex partners and exprs your sexualy socially distanced while health officials and journalists hated, gay and bisexual men sprang to actn. ” Benjam Ryan, a gay journalist, and Carlton Thomas, a gay doctor, risked ncellatn — e.