Once laser-foced on HIV/AIDS, the gay muny is now addrsg one of the perils of gettg olr.
Contents:
- WHEN TO PROSTATE NCER, 'GAY MEN ARE ERASED,' PATIENTS SAY
- WATCH THE SRY 1961 ANTI-GAY PSA – “BOYS BEWARE” – VIO
- PSA: GAY MEN WILL MARRY YOUR GIRLIENDS
- PROSTATE CANCER SCREENG FOR GAY MEN THE UNED STAT
- HILARY DUFF RECREAT HER 2008 ‘THAT’S SO GAY’ PSA
- PROSTATE CANCER GAY, BISEXUAL, AND OTHER MEN WHO HAVE SEX WH MEN: A REVIEW
WHEN TO PROSTATE NCER, 'GAY MEN ARE ERASED,' PATIENTS SAY
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But the unique challeng facg gay and bisexual men wh prostate ncer have largely gone who have sex wh men (MSM) are ls likely to get regular prostate ncer screengs, and those who are diagnosed are ls likely to have faial and social support, acrdg to rearch ced by the Natnal Instut of Health. And if their health re provir is not culturally petent, gay and bisexual men are much ls likely to unrstand how treatment will impact their qualy of life.
”As a rult, Margoli add, many lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr patients go back the closet when they beg ncer treatment. “I’ve been a gay activist — and been out — so long that I took for granted I uld talk openly to my doctors, ” he told NBC News.
Brass’ said his sexual functn was relatively good, but stead he stggled wh ntence for weeks — g as many as ne “pads” a day and stayg wh yards of a bathroom at all you’re gay and you go to a urologist who hasn’t alt wh gay men, they’ll tell you, 'Brg your wife wh you. '"He joed a prostate ncer support group specifilly for gay and bisexual men at Mount Sai Hospal Manhattan, one of several anized by the natnal advocy anizatn wh other queer men “allowed to be very open about our feelgs — and our sexualy — and to be empathetic wh each other, ” Brass said.
WATCH THE SRY 1961 ANTI-GAY PSA – “BOYS BEWARE” – VIO
Hilary Duff is makg old ntent new aga. The sger and actrs has recreated her anti-gay bullyg PSA om 14 years ago. * psa gay *
“Too often gay men are erased the [support] groups.
They don’t want to hear other men be vulnerable, and they don’t want to hear about gay sex.
“If you’re gay and you go to a urologist who hasn’t alt wh gay men, they’ll tell you, ‘Brg your wife wh you, ’" he said.
PSA: GAY MEN WILL MARRY YOUR GIRLIENDS
If you don't support gay marriage, the gay men will gladly marry your girliend stead of marryg each other * psa gay *
”That disfort n spread to gay patients. "A NEGLECTED AREA"It’s impossible to know how many gay men have been diagnosed prostate ncer, bee qutns about sexualy are rarely clud rearch studi.
“The medil muny say, ‘We don’t want to ask olr heterosexual men qutns that might upset them, ’" Simon Rosser, an LGBTQ health specialist and -thor of "Gay and Bisexual Men Livg Wh Prostate Cancer, " told NBC Rosser, PhD, MPH, is a profsor at the Universy of Mnota School of Public Health. Universy of MnotaA profsor at the Universy of Mnota School of Public Health, Rosser has received a $3 ln grant om the Natnal Cancer Instute to put together the first prehensive rehabilatn program specifilly for gay and bisexual men wh prostate ncer.
PROSTATE CANCER SCREENG FOR GAY MEN THE UNED STAT
Gay men were screened for PCa at a younger age parted to straight men. They were also more likely to have unrgone PCa ncer screeng than straight men between 2013 and 2018. Further study is need to better unrstand the role of sexual orientatn PCa screeng and management. * psa gay *
”But wasn’t stutnalized homophobia, Rosser strsed. ” For gay men, so long ignored by medice, Rosser believ those rat are much higher. ”Rosser said the silence and shame surroundg the topic allows ugly myths to flourish — like that gay sex somehow “ed” their ncer.
“Gay men have a lot to offer the subject of prostate ncer.
HILARY DUFF RECREAT HER 2008 ‘THAT’S SO GAY’ PSA
And we have studi that show out are different for gay men: We have worse mental health, we have greater urary problems, but our sexual out are reliably better.
Gettg the disease, ironilly, is somethg of a luxury for a gay men of Brass’ age: Too many had their liv cut short by the AIDS epimic long before they’d typilly be diagnosed (the average age for a prostate ncer diagnosis is 66) the advent of lifavg antiretroviral dgs the mid-1990s, though, gay men are fally reachg their goln years.
PROSTATE CANCER GAY, BISEXUAL, AND OTHER MEN WHO HAVE SEX WH MEN: A REVIEW
”It stole a generatn, but the AIDS epimic also tght gay men how to fight disease, how to ask qutns and how to mand better treatment. And, I thk, as gay men, we brg a ep feelg of passn, empathy and humor.