Installment number three our week-long ren of our much loved former lumn. We dug up a vob lson for today. Mrice von Rz' helpful gui to gay male sex and s termology origally appeared issue #41, July/Augt 2006.
Contents:
- THE BIGGT MYTH ABOUT GAY SEX
- WHO ARE GAYS - 10 MYTHS ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY
- THE GAY BERLER: ACTIVELY PASSIVE
THE BIGGT MYTH ABOUT GAY SEX
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WHO ARE GAYS - 10 MYTHS ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY
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THE GAY BERLER: ACTIVELY PASSIVE
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After more than three s of safer sex msag agast the backdrop of gay men sickeng horribly and then dyg, new medil treatments have stemmed the ti of the panmic and offered real hope for longer-term survival to people wh HIV.
Queer theorist Tim Dean (2000) wr: "In view of statistics on new seronversns, some AIDS tors have begun to acknowledge that, unlikely though may seem, remag HIV-negative fact pos signifint psychologil challeng to gay men" (p.