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Contents:

• GAY, BISEXUAL AND OTHER MEN WHO HAVE SEX WH MEN (MSM)
• MSM TERM MAK GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN INVISIBLE, SAYS GAYLATO NETWORK
• DIAGNOS OF HIV INFECTN THE UNED STAT AND DEPENNT AREAS, 2018: GAY, BISEXUAL, AND OTHER MEN WHO HAVE SEX WH MEN
• GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN'S HEALTH
• HIGHLIGHTED CDC HIV PREVENTN ACTIVI CONCERNG HIV AND AIN AMERIN GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN

GAY, BISEXUAL AND OTHER MEN WHO HAVE SEX WH MEN (MSM)

Shigella Infectns among Gay & Bisexual Men — CDC fact sheet that provis general rmatn and preventn tips for MSM about the diarrheal disease, Shigellosis. In many settgs, providg ndoms and lubrints gay-iendly plac is much more effective than requirg MSM to purchase them om pharmaci or healthre settgs that they may be fearful of visg. Doxy-PEP as an STI Preventn Strategy: Consiratns for dividuals and healthre provirs of gay or bisexual men or transgenr women.

MSM Term Mak Gay and Bisexual Men Invisible, Says GayLato Network Fance Watchlists My Portfol Markets Optns: Hight Open Intert Optns: Hight Implied Volatily News Vios Yahoo Fance Pl Screeners Personal Fance High-yield savgs acunt rat Crypto Indtri Contact Us S&P 500 Dow 30 Nasdaq Rsell 2000 C Oil Gold Silver EUR/USD 10-Yr Bond GBP/USD USD/JPY B USD CMC Crypto 200 FTSE 100 Nikkei 225 MSM Term Mak Gay and Bisexual Men Invisible, Says GayLato NetworkASUNCION, Paraguay & MEXICO CITY, June 23, 2023--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The term "men who have sex wh men", referred to as "MSM", was veloped the late 1980s and early 1990s as an epimlogil intifier of a sexual practice associated wh HIV/AIDS fectn; however, began to generalize to clu gay, bisexual, transgenr women, and all those assigned male at birth who have sex wh other men, whether or not they intify as gay, bisexual, or problem is that the only public or ternatnal rourc that LGBT anizatns uld accs those days were those associated wh HIV/AIDS. It began to bee more equent throughout Lat Ameri and velopg untri, health sectors, and medil servic that they no longer talked about gay and bisexual men but only about MSM.

"That prott was succsful, " says Simón Cazal, -founr of the Paraguayan anizatn SOMOSGAY and Regnal Secretary of Red GayLato, the largt work of gay lears Lat Ameri. It has st a lot of work, effort, sufferg, and aths to achieve that we are humanized as gay and bisexual men and not only as a sexual act. ""In our daily liv, we regnize ourselv as gay or bisexual, we do not self-intify as MSM, " says Ronald Céspes, Bolivian, and print of the Executive Commtee of GayLato and adds, "So is imposed nonsense to pot out only our sexual practice stead of our form of inty and tegral velopment of our personaly, thereby rercg social, cultural, and legal homophobia and biphobia.

MSM TERM MAK GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN INVISIBLE, SAYS GAYLATO NETWORK

"The GayLato Network has cid to lnch a mpaign so that all the documents of the Network and the anizatns of s affiliated members, the term MSM will be elimated and replaced by gay and bisexual men. Likewise, ternatnal agenci Lat Ameri will be mand to stop g the term MSM and refer to as gay and bisexual Je Saavedra, Mexin, Executive Director of the AHF Instute of Global Public Health, and member of the GayLato Network pots out that "There is already another term ed by ternatnal agenci that work on the issue of HIV/AIDS worldwi, and that is ‘Key Populatns’ that rporat, often whout namg them, the groups prevly nsired MSM. "For s part, AHF, the largt HIV/AIDS anizatn globally, wh a prence more than 45 untri, supports the GayLato Network for this mpaign.

"It is a battle that we will surely w bee we are human, gay, bisexual, and we will not cease to exist, " add Simón AIDS Healthre Foundatn (AHF)AIDS Healthre Foundatn, the largt global AIDS anizatn, currently provis medil re and/or servic to over 1. The homophobia and margalisatn experienced by MSM ntribute to a unique sub-culture that requir tailored, prehensive health and social servic, cludg servic for mental health ndns, ” says Dawie Nel, Director of OUT LGBT the MSM muny is acknowledged as a prry group the fight agast HIV/AIDS, Nel argu that not enough is beg done to addrs the mental health challeng s members face, which, turn, impact their sexual and health-seekg behavur. “This clus creasg public awarens about the stigma, discrimatn, and homophobia faced by the groups, improvg accs to affirmg mental health and social servic, and creatg more safe spac for them to nnect, reflect, and receive rmatn and support.

S., the Red Cross, along wh One Blood, Valant and partner LGBTQ+ muny health centers, are participatg a pilot study fund by the FDA select ci that uld potentially lead to chang for blood donor eligibily creria for gay and bisexual men. However, they are problematic bee they obscure social dimensns of sexualy; unrme the self-labelg of lbian, gay, and bisexual people; and do not sufficiently scribe variatns sexual and WSW often imply a lack of lbian or gay inty and an absence of muny, works, and relatnships which same-genr pairgs mean more than merely sexual behavr.

DIAGNOS OF HIV INFECTN THE UNED STAT AND DEPENNT AREAS, 2018: GAY, BISEXUAL, AND OTHER MEN WHO HAVE SEX WH MEN

In part bee the terms held the promise of rcg AIDS stigma, which has been irratnally attached to gay men and lbians, we, the thors, helped to promulgate the now-faiar acronyms. Acrdgly, MSM was troduced to reflect the ia that behavrs, not inti, place dividuals at risk for HIV fectn, a particularly important distctn given that scientific and medil experts had ially intified gay inty as a risk for HIV/AIDS, a characterizatn that stigmatized lbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) populatns and nfound efforts to prevent HIV fectn. While the epimlogil perspective aimed to rce gay and lbian to what is thought of as their necsary re—sexual behavrs that place dividuals at risk—the social nstctnist crique, wh s orig gay and lbian studi and femist and queer theory, seeks to do the oppose: seeks more textured unrstandgs of sexualy that do not assume alignments among inty, behavr, and sire.

Richard von Krafft-Ebg’s Psychopathia Sexualis troduced the notn of “antipathic sexual stct, ” ed terchangeably wh “homo-sexual stct” and referred to as “anomaly, ” “abnormal, ” “tated, ” “nropathic, ” “generate, ” “verted, ” and “jur. ”8(p241) In the 20th century, many sexual-mory men and women fiercely rejected homosexual favor of self-chosen terms such as homophile, gay, lbian, and more recently DL (down low), two-spired, and transgenr, among others. The central tes of this approach are as follows: (1) no social group is homogeno, (2) people mt be loted terms of social stctur that pture the power relatns implied by those stctur, and (3) there are unique, nonaddive effects of intifyg wh more than one social group.

However, terms such as sexual mori and gay, lbian, and LGBT (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr) have acquired global ronance and polil and cultural meangs.

GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN'S HEALTH

The diffn of the terms has led not to homogenizatn but to a multiplitn of inti, as Wtern and non-Wtern tegori and practic mix and renfigure.

16–18 Dpe their limatns, there is ample evince that the terms gay, lbian, and LGBT are wily ed alongsi lol terms, signifyg liberatnist iologi for sexual-mory people many cultur.

9–11 The terms have been ed by such anizatns as Amnty Internatnal, Human Rights Watch, and the Internatnal Lbian and Gay Associatn. The latter is a feratn of natnal and lol muny-based groups wh reprentativ om 90 untri, “dited to achievg equal rights for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenred (LGBT) people everywhere. ”19UNDERMINING SELF-DETERMINED SEXUAL IDENTITIESGay men, lbians, queers, two-spired people, and men on the DL prefer to e their own inty terms, but many ntemporary public health wrers prefer the terms MSM and WSW, ostensibly bee the terms avoid assumptns about a sgular, misleadgly herent gay inty.

HIGHLIGHTED CDC HIV PREVENTN ACTIVI CONCERNG HIV AND AIN AMERIN GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN

As historian Allan Bebe observed, “In the Uned Stat today, the domant image of the typil gay man is a whe man who is fancially better off than most everyone else. ”20(p234) Jt as gay and lbian are often d as “Whe, ” WSW and MSM often implicly refer to people of lor, poor people, or racially and ethnilly diverse groups outsi the perceived mastream gay and lbian unrstand how MSM is read, is important to exame how explic and implic boundari are drawn around the tegory gay. Consir, for example, a passage om Pl Farmer which he claims that, recent years, there have been fewer HIV s than predicted among gay men the Uned Stat, a tegory he implicly racializ as Whe via the ntrast wh “jectn dg ers, ner-cy people of lor, and persons origally om poor untri sub-Saharan Ai or the Caribbean.

”21(p47) He further exclus gay om poor and suggts that “mal volved prostutn are almost universally poor, and may be their poverty, rather than their sexual preference, that puts them at risk of HIV fectn. ”21(p47) Wh this juxtaposn, Farmer seems to suggt that same-genr behavr among poor men of lor (pecially youth) is sex work rather than sex for pleasure and is void of inty and muny; same-genr behavr among Whe men is read as synonymo wh gay inty.

Studied Black men, reced primarily om Black gay anizatns, to asss the impact of a social environment characterized by prejudice on health servic provid to the men. Regardg health servic, one rponnt poignantly said: “When I go to a physician’s office, and when I intify myself as a gay person, part of that is lookg for acceptance om them, bee I haven’t gotten om my fay, you know? This seems pecially amiss bee so many of the rponnts belonged to Black gay anizatns—for example, the explicly named “New York State Black Gay Network”—and bee most reported that they ed an inty term to scribe themselv (53% gay, 12% bisexual, 12% same-genr-lovg, 12% homosexual).

We ncur wh the thor’s ncln that “Lato MSM is far om beg a homogeneo sexual tegory, and, as a amework, [the tegory MSM] is sufficient to pture the multidimensnal aspects of Lato male bisexualy.