Do some gay men want to ntract HIV? (long article)

Contents:

• #GAY
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
• CHARL BARKLEY FENDS LGBTQIA+ MUNY, BUD LIGHT EXPLETIVE-FILLED RANT: ‘IF YOU’RE GAY, GOD BLS YOU’
• UNRSTANDG MONKEYPOX AMONG GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN
• CDC TIMAT 1.7 LN GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN FACE HIGHT RISK OM MONKEYPOX
• MONKEYPOX AND THE GAY COMMUNY

#GAY

Hi allThis isn't hiv specifilly, but I know that there are a lot of gay men like me on the fom, so I am cur.... I've always wonred why many gay men I know don't really seem to have shaken their adolcence (and this clus me). I play a gay hockey league, and 's like high school, wh people battlg for social posn, wh people who have ltle to remend them save for their sports skills.

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

I also play wh a uple of straight teams other leagu (who know I'm gay) and 's totally different. I wonr, then, that the hockey example aris om that "gay adolcence" that I was talkg about, that many gay men live muni that don't have a lot of elrs (bee so many died of AIDS) or don't hang wh olr men bee ageism. Jt bee same sex marriage is legal don't mean homophobia isn't still very real and somethg young gay people still have to al wh; but wh younger people general more acceptg, and gay relatnships legal, I believe a change for the better is progrsg.

CHARL BARKLEY FENDS LGBTQIA+ MUNY, BUD LIGHT EXPLETIVE-FILLED RANT: ‘IF YOU’RE GAY, GOD BLS YOU’

Even though I believe thgs are changg for the better, don't mean that gay people don't still grow up wh way more issu than straight people; but unfortunately that's jt the way is livg a heteronormative world. If they didn't st so many of asi, or stood up for then maybe so many of wouldn't be hurt and wouldn't be discrimated agast) Maybe "gay adolcence" is a pg skill....

UNRSTANDG MONKEYPOX AMONG GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN

I'd agree wh you here, terms of gay people dog the bt wh what they have (had) I suppose some ways, those adolcent pg skills we ed when we me out the 70s and 80s should be gone by now, that there are so many rourc that people n accs (clubs, leagu, and so on) to help them mature and "grow up". That I see this played out repeatedly gay sports at first surprised me and now only brgs me maybe 's jt all triggerg for me those ght high school days. MPact will nvene gay, bisexual, and queer men om around the globe on Thursday July 28, 2022 Montreal, immediately prr to the Internatnal AIDS Conference.

This will be a rare opportuny for gay, bisexual, and queer men to e together and engage around the plex issu related to sex.

CDC TIMAT 1.7 LN GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN FACE HIGHT RISK OM MONKEYPOX

The For Fuck’s Sake Summ 2022 will provi a space where gay, bisexual, and queer men n foster a stronger sense of muny and crease the visibily of the var polil and cultural issu nnected to sex, while also rcg anti-sex and anti-gay stigma.

Vcent and the Grenad, where gay sex is still homelsns to ongog physil and verbal abe, the gay muny the small natn of some 100, 000 people says is unr nstant threat. Vcent, anal sex is punishable by up to 10 years prison, while “gross cency” wh another person of the same sex is punishable by up to five years, acrdg to lonial-era laws that are mon the socially nservative Caribbean rarely voked, the rights group and a lol activist said the laws help legimize hostily and abe agast gay people.

Vcent who are livg abroad filed a se to challenge lol laws crimalizg gay sex that activists say should be stck down. Human Rights Watch terviewed more than 20 members of the island’s LGBTQ muny who shared their stori but were not intified to protect them, notg that lol police are often openly discrimatory toward gay people who seek help.

MONKEYPOX AND THE GAY COMMUNY

Several reported that their fai are homophobic and physilly and verbally abed them, g them to bee homels and promptg some to nsir also stggle to fd jobs amid a high unemployment rate and said they face discrimatn, cludg a 19-year-old gay man who said he has rorted to beggg: “Sometim I am so hungry. ”Six English-speakg natns the Caribbean still crimalize gay sex, cludg Domi, Jamai, Guyana, Grenada and St.

”González wh Human Rights Watch noted that 2019, the ernment held a workshop for public employe on the importance of rpectg gay rights, a rare move for a nservative Caribbean natn. Norquay, who manag a gay bathhoe Vanuver, says he's been approached by men who don't have the vis that AIDS but who tell him they want to be fected by him. But medil officials and AIDS anizatns say even the notn that AIDS may be a fetish among some gay men suggts that 25 years worth of work to build tn and tolerance about the disease hasn't been enough.

Phillip Banks, director of HIV preventn for AIDS Vanuver, said wh AIDS fectn rat risg once more, some young gay men see beg fected wh AIDS as jt a matter of time. He said a gay young man today has a 50 per cent chance of beg HIV posive by the time he reach his late 40s. " He said one gay man told him he wanted to ntract the vis sooner rather than later so "he uld feel more like a gay man, which to me, kd of summed up everythg.

"The are guys that are the products of a vilently homophobic culture, who've been vicly stigmatized bee of HIV for 25 years.

" Banks lled the notn of HIV as fetish "fascatg yet sndalo, " but he noted if exists, bug chasg is somethg practised by a very small mory who are not reprentative of the homosexual muny. "The majory of gay men this untry are nsistent their efforts to mata sexual safety for themselv and for their sexual partners, " Banks said.

"My fear wh this is that people will look at risg HIV fectn rat among gay men and say: 'They're brgg on themselv. Okay, the ual unscientific, my-bra's-permanently--ntral mumbo-jumbo about gay men beg trsilly may be a valid topic for discsn here, but this article is not the right discsn.

Well perhaps the article is not to your likg Newt, but the fact that I've been proposned to fect others (as have other Poz Gay men I know) is all the evince I need to make this a valid topic for I'm the only one here who has had this experience (tho I n hardly believe that). It's a valid topic, this article's jt the ual crap salac take (blame the fags), drsed up wh a ser reportg tone n some unjtified science-type soundb eg: He said a gay young man today has a 50 per cent chance of beg HIV posive by the time he reach his late 40s.

Or maybe we n Daniel, my reactn is not personal to you, 's jt I'm fed up of the same old rehash of the origal Rollg Stone "vtigative journalism" about gay men & sex whout ndoms etc etc (like, straight people don't do this, right? ), and certa gay muny "lears"/mentators gettg so over-dramatic about all, jt mak me angry I gus.

Transmissn rat among gay men the UK have been broadly-peakg stable for, oh, 10 yrs, ndoms or no ndoms. I'm not sure what there is to discs but y, Daniel, there are some really crazy people the world and some of them are GAY. Wh the media and popular cultural tellg that havg msm -gay sex is the e of the spread of HIV maybe the guys jt want to get over what they em the evable.