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Contents:

• 5 SAFT PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2019 (AND THE MOST DANGERO)
• TRAVEL SAFETY REPORT: 20 WORST PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2021
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• SAFER SEX AMONG GAY MEN: WHAT IS THE ULTIMATE GOAL?
• KEV SPACEY DEFENDS COMG OUT AS GAY AFTER BEG ACCED OF SEXUAL MISNDUCT: ‘I WAS UNR A LOT OF PRSURE’
• THE END OF SAFE GAY SEX?

5 SAFT PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2019 (AND THE MOST DANGERO)

Many health re and mental health anizatns foced on the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muny also offer substance e treatment or may be able to provi rmatn about lol rourc. And rearch has shown that gay men and other men who have sex wh men experience timate partner vlence at a higher rate than do other men. A lack of shelters and other facili equipped to offer gay men a safe, supportive place to get help also may make dntg to seek re.

As our society be more and more nducive for youth to feel fortable wh their sexualy, there has never been more of a need for gay sex ed than for today's queer generatn. Use the power of nsent and make sure your sexual partners feel fortable wh g 101HIV isn't jt a gay issue, but the importance of HIV is entrenched gay history, gay culture, and gay sex. And wh HIV fectn on the rise among young gay and bisexual men, is imperative to arm yourself wh the right rmatn orr to stay safe and enjoy your sex life whout fear.

TRAVEL SAFETY REPORT: 20 WORST PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2021

The hight-risk sexual behavr among gay men is anal sex, wh receptive anal sex (bottomg) riskier than sertive anal sex (toppg). Four out of 102 newly fected gay men Amsterdam ced oral sex as their riskit behavr, one out of 50 Boston, three out of 49 San Francis, one out of 41 a send S. Even Rof, the activist who urged gay men to keep havg oral sex, knows people-''cludg a iend''-who say they were fected via fellat.

Joey's policy is mon, and many gay men believe that by keepg semen out of their mouths they will keep HIV out of their bodi. The way Joey had oral sex is mon among gay men, but not among women, says sex rearcher Pepper Schwartz, who thored a study of 6000 gay, lbian, and heterosexual upl. '' From her terviews, Schwartz nclud that only about 20 per cent of women nsistently swallowed, whereas about 80 per cent of the gay men did.

In the Voice survey, doctors wh a mostly gay clientele were much more likely to have patients who were fected through fellat. A study of more than 1100 HIV-negative gay men found that more than a quarter had ggivis, or flammatn of the gums, which n facilate fectn. The Great Oral Sex Debate, as more than one activist ll s , has sparked acrimon disput among gay lears, wh accatns of ''ternalized homophobia'' flyg every which way.

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

Still, the average gay man knows that fellat is threatened, but by a risk that is uncerta and therefore all the more unsettlg. In his book Revivg the Tribe, Rof wr, ''Many gay men hear a subtle but faia r msage om safe sex mpaigns: The meangs gay men fd their sexual ngrs are spur, trivial, or expendable. Mart Delaney, one of the epimic's leadg activists, worri that gay lears such as Rof have lnched ''a polil rponse to a medil problem.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

'' But the fact that many gay men believe homophobia lurks the heart of AIDS tn has ma a scientific discsn of fellat vastly more difficult.

SAFER SEX AMONG GAY MEN: WHAT IS THE ULTIMATE GOAL?

'' And, he adds, ''unters the sexphobic advice that says, 'Jt say no, ' '' by emphasizg that ''not all homosexual sex is risky.

In other words, where Bud Light has buckled unr prsure as bigotry grows agast the LGBTQ+ muny, Gay Water’s creator Spencer Hodson wants his new boozy brand to be the anthis of that. “The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them,” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer.

“Puttg a product wh the word gay the tle is reprentatn self,” which he hop reclaims the word om the negativy ’s sometim associated wh. The two chatted about the limed amount of gay people wh , and wh Hodson burnt out om his tradnal day job tech, started the nned cktail. Hodson built up a strong social media followg on TikTok and Instagram durg Covid-19 and is g some of the money om that (as well as om iends and fay) to help fund Gay Water.

KEV SPACEY DEFENDS COMG OUT AS GAY AFTER BEG ACCED OF SEXUAL MISNDUCT: ‘I WAS UNR A LOT OF PRSURE’

“Gay is an umbrella term and the ia behd the brand is to be as clive as possible, which means we want alli, we want straight people to be part of this muny we’re buildg.”. For now, Gay Water is sold largely onle (wh a few retailers) and four sugar-ee flavors — watermelon, lime, peach and grapeu — at lnch. Gay Water might not have the ep pockets pared to s petors, like Whe Claw, but “even at small sle, pani of many siz are havg succs makg spir-based seltzers and premixed cktails,” Bryan Roth, an analyst for Feel Goods Company and edor of the alhol beverage newsletter, Sightl+, told CNN.

“There’s lots of space the spir-based seltzer tegory which Gay Water n play, pecially if the brand n offer a cultural or emotnal nnectn that will feel more excg than the prospect of another peapple-flavored vodka seltzer om natnal or ternatnal rporatns,” Roth said. Of urse, other drks e the word “gay,” too, cludg Gay Beer and So Gay Rosé, Hodson noted, which are also tryg to reach the queer muny and offer them an alternative the straight-domated space. In an attempt to help terme the worst plac for gay travelers, the duo created the 2019 LGBTQ+ Danger Inx, rankg the world’s most dangero—and saft—untri for gay travelers.

THE END OF SAFE GAY SEX?

The journalists looked at the top 150 most-vised untri the world by the number of g tourists, then ranked them g eight factors, cludg laws agast gay relatnships, legal protectn agast discrimatn and more. “In 2018, India managed to annul Sectn 377, a Brish lonial-era law prohibg ‘unnatural acts, ’ orr to legalize nsensual gay sex, ” says Fergson, who pots out that ancient Indian lerature such as the Mahabharata and Ramayana have many referenc to LGBTQ+ hero cludg transgenr warrrs and two queens who ma love orr for one queen to get pregnant wh an heir for their kgdom. “Long story short, this pots to the fact that was likely the Brish fluence that largely led to Indian homophobia the first place, ” she says.