Brief | Ain Amerin | Gay and Bisexual Men | HIV by Group | HIV/AIDS | CDC

Contents:

• GAY, BISEXUAL AND OTHER MEN WHO HAVE SEX WH MEN (MSM)
• DIAGNOS OF HIV INFECTN THE UNED STAT AND DEPENNT AREAS, 2018: GAY, BISEXUAL, AND OTHER MEN WHO HAVE SEX WH MEN
• HIGHLIGHTED CDC HIV PREVENTN ACTIVI CONCERNG HIV AND AIN AMERIN GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN
• “RED IS NOT THE ONLY LOR OF A RABOW”: THE MAKG AND RISTANCE OF THE “MSM” SUBJECT AMONG GAY MEN CHA

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. 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. 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.

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

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.

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

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

“RED IS NOT THE ONLY LOR OF A RABOW”: THE MAKG AND RISTANCE OF THE “MSM” SUBJECT AMONG GAY MEN CHA

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.