HIV and Gay and Bisexual Men | NIH

Contents:

• HIV AND ALL GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN
• HIV AMONG GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN THE U.S.
• IS AIDS A “GAY” DISEASE?
• AIDS: STILL A GAY DISEASE AMERI
• GAY AS AIDS
• WHY ARE GAY MEN MORE AT RISK FOR HIV?
• HIV IS A STORY FIRST WRTEN ON THE BODI OF GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN

HIV AND ALL GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN

Gay and bisexual men n take the followg steps to rce their risk of HIV fectn:.

Social and stctural issu—such as HIV stigma, homophobia, discrimatn, poverty, and limed accs to high-qualy health re—fluence health out and ntue to drive equi. Get the latt data on HIV among gay and bisexual men and fd out how CDC is makg a difference. This web ntent the term gay and bisexual men to reprent gay, bisexual, and other men who reported male-to-male sexual ntact.

New HIV fectns cled among gay and bisexual men the last , but HIV ntu to disproportnately affect gay and bisexual men relative to other muni the U. Progrs rcg new HIV fectns among gay and bisexual men has also not been equal, wh differenc by race, ethnicy, and age.

HIV AMONG GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN THE U.S.

Factors that fluence health out—cludg HIV-related stigma, homophobia, racism, discrimatn, poverty, limed accs to high-qualy health re, and other longstandg barriers—have ntributed to the unequal reach of HIV preventn and treatment; higher levels of HIV some muni; and ntued equi. Addnally, 2020, 49% fewer HIV tts were admistered among gay and bisexual men non-healthre settgs than 2019. Wh effective preventn and treatment tools at our disposal, the natn has a s--the-makg opportuny to end the domtic HIV epimic and elimate dispari HIV preventn and re among gay and bisexual men and other populatns disproportnately affected by HIV.

Almost all of the major homophile groups ed to tell that HIV/AIDS is not a “gay” disease. They claimed that should not be associated wh homosexualy any way, shape or form bee this allegedly led to the “stigmatizg and spegoatg” of homosexuals.

IS AIDS A “GAY” DISEASE?

This assertn was an sential ponent of the refully-engeered mpaign tend to nvce that homosexualy is jt as healthy as heterosexualy. But as evince piled up, the allegatn that homosexualy and HIV/AIDS were unrelated was no longer fensible, and those who nied the nnectn were creasgly perceived as disnnected om realy.

Eventually, even the lears of the homophile movement had to publicly acknowledge the nnectn. For example, Matt Foreman, former Director of the Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force, admted:. Internally, when the numbers e out, the “tablished” gay muny seems to have a llective shg as if this isn’t our problem.

Folks, wh 70 percent of the people this untry livg wh HIV beg gay or bi, we nnot ny that HIV is a gay disease. In a sense, the homosexual “special rights” movement is actually perpetuatg this awful disease wh s actns and attus.

AIDS: STILL A GAY DISEASE AMERI

70% of all new s of HIV still occur homosexual and bisexual men. However, Amerin urts have thlsly med the Constutn to illicly expand the right to privacy to clu abortn, fantici, thanasia, pornography ― and now, ersatz homosexual “marriage. Homosexual groups have ed to cripple ernment efforts to curb the very disease that is killg them by the thoands every year.

Organized “gays” have blocked blood screeng for HIV, fought the closg of homosexual bathho, advoted for the legalizatn of both male and female prostutn, shut down ntact tracg and sexual partner notifitn, opposed crimalizg the liberate fectn of another person wh HIV-AIDS, and promoted the e of ndoms, which have a six to eight percent failure rate. The radil homosexual lobby still acc the ernment of so-lled “AIDS genoci, ” and asserts that the Feds “have blood on their hands.

To show how out of touch the mastream media is wh realy, Newsweek Magaze, which has featured AIDS on s ver no fewer than twenty tim, laid the blame for the AIDS epimic at the feet of “homophobia and relig lears steeped moralistic doctre who have supprsed hont nversatn about how to stop . Did they mand homosexuals to grossly abe dgs and alhol so that their judgment was impaired or stroyed?

GAY AS AIDS

In perhaps the most extreme statement of self-excal, Harry Hay, founr of the first homophile anizatn the Uned Stat (the Mattache Society), acced nservativ of velopg and spreadg the AIDS vis. All of this shows the power of the homosexual lobby as greedily gobbl up every penny n get s hands on for s very small percentage of the populatn, thereby privg lns of others of badly-need assistance.

Foreman, a polil analyst wh the Brookgs Foundatn, says that homosexual mands for unlimed AIDS money nstute “a remarkably succsful lobby. This is exactly what pro-fay people are talkg about when they ri “special rights” for homosexuals.

But still AIDS fundg climbs relentlsly, bee lawmakers know that if they vote agast any crease, the homophil will stantly brand them as “hate-filled bigots” and “homophob. “Gettg Straight: HIV as a Gay Disease is a Myth that Ref to Die. [2] Matt Foreman, outgog Executive Director of the Natnal Gay and Lbian Task Force, on Febary 11, 2008.

WHY ARE GAY MEN MORE AT RISK FOR HIV?

Dcribed “Top ‘Gay’ Organizatn Com Clean: ‘HIV is a Gay Disease. ” This figure shows that 70% of all new diagnosed fectns among men were homosexuals and only 7% were among heterosexuals. [4] Acrdg to the Natnal Gay Task Force, screeng donated blood for HIV is “spegoatg” and “stigmatizg” [Journal of the Amerin Medil Associatn, Febary 4, 1983; New Dimensns Magaze, March 1990].

Even as we make progrs toward legal equaly the Uned Stat, gay and bisexual men ntue to be margalized and persecuted around the world. The Jot Uned Natns Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) timat that, worldwi, fewer than one 20 gay and bisexual men have accs to HIV re, preventn, and treatment. Outsi the Uned Stat, sex between men acunts for as much as 25 percent of all HIV fectns parts of Lat Ameri, wh rat nearly as high Asia, and not as high Ai where HIV much more strongly affects Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, and Intersex Associatn (ILGA) 2010 reported that 77 untri ntue to outlaw same-sex relatns, cludg five that impose the ath penalty on cizens for beg gay (Iran, Mrania, Sdi Arabia, Sudan, and Yemen, pl some parts of Nigeria and Somalia).

Acrdg to Gee Ayala, executive officer for the Global Fom on MSM and HIV (MSMGF), prentatns addrsg the HIV panmic disproportnate affect on gay and bisexual men around the world acunted for a mcule two percent of the entire program at the Eighteenth Internatnal AIDS Conference (lled AIDS 2010) Vienna. "We also have to do better addrsg HIV/AIDS gay and bisexual men here the Uned Stat. In Augt 2010, Dunn Osborne reported Gay Cy News that New York Cy health partment data dite MSM the cy ntue to have a very high rate of new HIV fectn and efforts to get more HIV-posive men onto treatment may be failg.

HIV IS A STORY FIRST WRTEN ON THE BODI OF GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN

"Gay and bisexual men New York Cy are ntug to get fected as the predomant transmissn risk, " said M. The bure reported that 2008, 1, 751 of the 4, 022 new HIV-posive diagnos the cy were gay/bi men, further swellg the ranks of the 106, 590 New Yorkers (more than 34, 000 of them gay and bi men) livg wh HIV.

As for preventg new fectns, Sweeney said, "When to the number of partners and how much sex gay men have, that's not somethg that n be ntrolled by ernment. "New York physician and Gay Men's Health Crisis -founr Larry Mass offered his own take on what GMHC is llg "an urgent prry, " the worseng HIV epimic among gay and bisexual men New York Cy.