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• STD FACTS – WHAT GAY, BISEXUAL AND OTHER MEN WHO HAVE SEX WH MEN NEED TO KNOW ABOUT SEXUALLY TRANSMTED DISEAS
• GAY, BISEXUAL AND OTHER MEN WHO HAVE SEX WH MEN (MSM)
• IS TE THAT GAY SEX HAS A HIGHER RISK OF STDS?
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OR ARE YOU NEW TO THIS FIELD? CURAT LEARNG OPPORTUNI FOR YOU, AND THE PEOPLE YOU SERVE AND LLABORATE WH.STAY UP TO DATE WH THE WEBARS, TWTER CHATS, NFERENC AND MORE THIS SECTN.MORE LEARNG OPPORTUNIBLOGGET TTED. FD SERVIC + PREPSEARCHGOESPAñOL ESPAñOL ES GET TTED. FD SERVIC + PREPSEARCHOPEN LOTOR SEARCHHIV SERVICES LOCATORSEARCH⨯CLOSEHOMEBLOGSIGNS OF A SEA CHANGE? SYPHILIS INCREAS MAY BE REVERSG AMONG GAY & BISEXUAL MENSIGNS OF A SEA CHANGE? SYPHILIS INCREAS MAY BE REVERSG AMONG GAY & BISEXUAL MENCONTENT FROM: LEANDRO MENA, MD, MPH, DIRECTOR, DIVISN OF STD PREVENTN, NATNAL CENTER FOR HIV, VIRAL HEPATIS, STD, AND TB PREVENTN, CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTN, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVIC •PUBLISHED: APRIL 13, 2022•3 M READTOPICSCDCCENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL & PREVENTNEHE<P>ENDG THE HIV EPIMIC THE U.S. IATIVE</P>GAY & BISEXUAL MENGAY & BISEXUAL MENSTDSSEXUALLY TRANSMTED DISEASSTI PLANFERAL STI ACTN PLANSURVEILLANCEPUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCESHARESHARE ON FACEBOOKSHARE ON TWTERSHARE ON LKEDINSHARE ON EMAILSYPHILIS NTU TO DISPROPORTNATELY AFFECT GAY, BISEXUAL AND OTHER MEN WHO HAVE SEX WH MEN (MSM), BUT A S-LONG CREASE REPORTED S MAY BE REVERSG, ACRDG TO SEXUALLY TRANSMTED DISEASE (STD) SURVEILLANCE, 2020. THE CDC ANNUAL REPORT WAS PUBLISHED THIS WEEK DURG STD AWARENS WEEK 2022.THIS APPARENT LEVELG-OFF REPORTED PRIMARY AND SENDARY (P&S) SYPHILIS S AMONG GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN IS A SMALL GLIMMER OF HOPE AN OTHERWISE NCERNG REPORT. THE DATA LLECTED 2020 FOR THIS REPORT, SHOW THAT EVEN THE FIRST YEAR OF THE COVID-19 PANMIC, 2.4 LN S OF CHLAMYDIA, GONORRHEA, AND SYPHILIS WERE REPORTED THE UNED STAT.NATNALLY, THE NUMBER OF P&S SYPHILIS (THE MOST FECT STAG OF THE DISEASE) S AMONG MSM SLIGHTLY CLED – 2.2 PERCENT – DURG 2019-2020. HOWEVER, THIS POPULATN REMAS DISPROPORTNATELY AFFECTED – PRISG 43 PERCENT OF ALL P&S S.TRIED AND TE PREVENTN STRATEGI WORK AGAST THIS VERY PREVENTABLE FECTN.FOR ANYONE WHO GETS SYPHILIS, DIAGNOSIS AND TIMELY TREATMENT ARE SENTIAL. CDC REMENDS THAT ALL MSM BE TTED AT LEAST ANNUALLY FOR SYPHILIS. SOME MAY NEED TO BE TTED MORE EQUENTLY, CLUDG THOSE WH MULTIPLE SEX PARTNERS. SYPHILIS N BE CURED WH THE RIGHT ANTIBTICS. IF NOT TREATED, SYPHILIS N E SER HEALTH PROBLEMS, CLUDG NROLOGIC (BRA AND NERVE) PROBLEMS, EYE PROBLEMS, AND EVEN BLDNS.WHILE SYPHILIS N CREASE THE RISK OF HIV TRANSMISSN, A SYPHILIS DIAGNOSIS N ALSO OPEN THE DOOR TO HIV PREVENTN, CLUDG PRE-EXPOSURE PROPHYLAXIS (OR PREP). STD SURVEILLANCE DATA SHOW THAT THE HIV PREVENTN OPPORTUNY HERE IS GREAT – 2020, OVER 8,400 MSM DIAGNOSED WH P&S SYPHILIS WERE HIV-NEGATIVE AND AN ADDNAL 2,300 HAD UNKNOWN HIV STAT. EACH PERSON DIAGNOSED WH SYPHILIS REPRENTS AN HIV PREVENTN OPPORTUNY. AND FOR THOSE WHO ARE LIVG WH HIV AND ARE DIAGNOSED WH SYPHILIS, THEIR SYPHILIS DIAGNOSIS N BE A CRIL HIV RE TOUCHPOT.ENDG THE HIV EPIMIC THE U.S. (EHE) HAS PROVID A PATHWAY TO ADDRS THIS OVERLAP. AS PART OF EHE, CDC IS VTG ROURC TO SLE UP QUALY HIV PREVENTN SERVIC STD CLICS. BY ADDRSG SYPHILIS AND OTHER STIS ALONGSI HIV, WE ARE TACKLG THIS PROBLEMATIC SYNMIC, OR TERNNECTED EPIMICS.WE HAVE A LONG WAY TO GO. DPE THE SMALL NATNAL CLE REPORTED S OF P&S SYPHILIS AMONG MSM, SOME STAT STILL REPORTED CREAS AMONG MSM 2020. SIMULTANEOLY, PRELIMARY 2021 DATA SHOW THAT REPORTED P&S SYPHILIS NTU TO CREASE THE UNED STAT, PARTICULARLY AMONG WOMEN, WHICH IS RULTG SOBERG CREAS SYPHILIS AMONG NEWBORNS.AMIDST THE CHALLENG, THE FIRST-EVER STI NATNAL STRATEGIC PLAN IS PROVIDG MUCH-NEED DIRECTN ADDRSG NOT ONLY SYPHILIS, BUT OTHER STIS AND RELATED FECTNS. THE PLAN CLUS A LL TO ADDRS THE SYNMICS OF NOT ONLY STIS AND HIV, BUT ALSO OF VIRAL HEPATIS AND SUBSTANCE E DISORRS. IT CHALLENG FERAL AND NONFERAL STAKEHOLRS AT ALL LEVELS AND SECTORS TO LLABORATE ON A WHOLE-OF-NATN, WHOLE-PERSON RPONSE, GOG BEYOND A DIAGNOSIS OF DISEASE TO ADDRS THE HEALTH AND WELL-BEG OF EVERY PERSON THE NATN. IT’S A TALL ORR, BUT WE N DO .WE ARE ENURAGED WH EVEN SMALL SIGNS OF PROGRS AMONG THIS POPULATN DISPROPORTNATELY AFFECTED BY STIS. I BELIEVE WE N BUILD ON THIS MOMENTUM TO MEET THE GOALS OF CREASG THE DRAMATIC TOLL OF STIS.RELATED BLOGSAUG 11, 2023ICYMI: REARCH ROUNDUP OM IAS 20232 M READLISTEN(1)WATCH(1)DOWNLOAD(, )AUG 2, 2023NEW EHE FACT SHEET HIGHLIGHTS INIATIVE ACPLISHMENTS2 M READLISTEN(1)WATCH(1)DOWNLOAD(, )JUL 26, EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNY: HELP US MAKE A DIFFERENCE2 M READLISTEN(1)WATCH(1)DOWNLOAD(, )SIGN UP TO RECEIVE EMAIL UPDAT OF BLOG POSTS (AND MORE!)TOPICS & ADDITIONAL RESOURCESTOPICSCDCCENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL & PREVENTNEHE<P>ENDG THE HIV EPIMIC THE U.S. IATIVE</P>GAY & BISEXUAL MENGAY & BISEXUAL MENSTDSSEXUALLY TRANSMTED DISEASSTI PLANFERAL STI ACTN PLANSURVEILLANCEPUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCEWAS THIS PAGE HELPFUL?WAS THIS PAGE HELPFUL? Y NONEXT FORM APPROVED OMB# 0990-0379 EXP. 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• NEW STI FIGUR SHOW NTUED CREAS AMONG GAY MEN
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIENDBARBIE’S BELOVED BEARD?FOR YEARS, PEOPLE HAVE QUTNED WHAT ROLE KEN REALLY PLAYS BARBIE’S LIFE. BUT THE TTH IS PLA SIGHT: KEN’S NOT BOYIEND MATERIAL. AT LEAST, NOT FOR BARBIE.BARRY LEVTFREELANCE WRERUPDATED JUL. 21, 2023 4:35AM EDT PHOTO ILLTRATN BY THE DAILY BEAST/GETTYIT’S BARBIE WEEK AT THE DAILY BEAST’S OBSSED, CELEBRATG THE DOLL’S POP-CULTURE HISTORY, OUR FAVORE BARBIE MEMORI, AND A CERTA MAJOR MOVIE. READ ALL OF OUR VERAGE HERE!“SHE’S EVERYTHG. HE’S JT KEN.” THAT’S THE TAGLE FOR THE WILDLY ANTICIPATED BARBIE MOVIE, DIRECTED BY GRETA GERWIG AND STARRG MARGOT ROBBIE AND RYAN GOSLG. THE IMPLITN IS CLEAR: COME FOR BARBIE, AND STAY FOR BARBIE… BUT KEN HAPPENS TO BE THERE TOO.KEN HAS LONG BEEN SEEN AS NOTHG BUT BARBIE’S HUMAN ACCSORY, BUT WASN’T ALWAYS THIS WAY FOR THE POOR MISUNRSTOOD DOLL. WHEN KEN WAS FIRST TRODUCED 1961, HIS FIRST MERCIAL TRIED TO POSN HIM AS BARBIE’S EQUAL AND, UNMISTAKABLY, BOYIEND. “GET BOTH BARBIE AND KEN AND SEE WHERE THE ROMANCE WILL LEAD!” THE MERCIAL PROMISED.SCE THEN, LIKE BARBIE, KEN HAS UNRGONE UNTLS TRANSFORMATNS AND FASHNS. BUT AS TIME WENT ON, KEN FOUND HIMSELF AN AFTERTHOUGHT. TOYMAKERS MATTEL NEVER GAVE HIM THE SAME KD OF BACKSTORI AS BARBIE—WHILE SHE’S HAD OVER 200 REERS, KEN HAS HAD JT SOME 40-ODD PROFSNS. (AN CREDIBLE AMOUNT OF JOBS FOR A PERSON, SURE. BUT FOR A DOLL? EMBARRASSG.) BARBIE HAS STARRED LOTS OF VIO GAM AND MORE THAN THREE DOZEN FILMS; KEN HAS HAD A MAJOR ROLE A MERE HANDFUL OF THEM. BUT THERE’S ONE KEY REASON WHY KEN IS ALWAYS LAGGG SIGNIFINTLY BEHD BARBIE AND 'S A LOT EPER THAN THE DOLL’S SEEMG LACK OF POPULARY: KEN HAS BEEN MISST. HE’S NOT BARBIE’S BOYIEND. HE’S BARBIE’S GAY BT IEND.DPE MATTEL’S SISTENCE THAT BARBIE AND KEN ARE A HAPPY ROMANTIC RELATNSHIP, THERE’S PLENTY OF SPECULATN ABOUT KEN’S SEXUALY. EVEN IF HIS MAKERS CLAIM HIM TO BE STRAIGHT, THERE’S MOUNTG PROOF TO THE NTRARY. PERHAPS THE MOST DISPUTABLE EVINCE THAT KEN IS FACT BOTH A MEMBER OF THE QUEER MUNY AND BARBIE’S BTIE, NOT BOY TOY, OM A RATHER SURPRISG PLACE: 2010’S TOY STORY 3.IN TOY STORY 3, BARBIE AND KEN PLAY A SURPRISGLY LARGE ROLE. THEIR TRODUCTN TO THE FILM IS TGED WH ROMANTIC TENSN. WHEN THE PAIR MEET, THE FILM VOK A MON TROPE: A ROMANTIC NEEDLE DROP HS THE MOMENT THE LOVERS LOCK EY. IN THIS SE, ’S “DREAM WEAVER” BY GARY WRIGHT. AS FAR AS BARBIE AND KEN ARE NCERNED, THEY’RE THE ONLY ON THE ROOM. “I LOVE YOUR LEG WARMERS!” KEN TELLS BARBIE. “NICE AST,” SHE BANTERS, WH HEAVY EMPHASIS ON THE FIRST SYLLABLE. BEFORE THGS GET TOO HEATED, THEY LOCK ARMS AND WALK OFF TOGETHER. PHOTO ILLTRATN BY KELLY CAMERO / THE DAILY BEAST / GETTY LET’S BE HONT—SPE THE ROMANTIC OVERTON OF THE SCENE, THEIR BRIEF EXCHANGE TELLS EVERYTHG ABOUT HOW THEY SEE EACH OTHER. KEN DON’T MENTN ANYTHG ABOUT BARBIE’S BODY, STEAD HIGHLIGHTG HER LEG WARMERS. BUT BARBIE IS UNSUBTLY TRYG TO SCE KEN JT TWO WORDS. SHE’S AFTER KEN, BUT KEN IS AFTER SOMEONE WHOSE CLOTH HE N ADMIRE.SURE, LATER THE FILM, KEN AND BARBIE SAY “I LOVE YOU” TO EACH OTHER. AND THEY GO BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN SAYG EACH WORD OF “I LOVE YOU”—SO SOMEONE DIFFERENT N SAY “LOVE” EACH TIME, AS KEN EXPLAS. HE MENTNS OFFHAND THAT HE HAS EVERYTHG EXCEPT SOMEONE TO SHARE WH. BARBIE AND KEN EVEN NUZZLE THEIR NOS TOGETHER. Y, THERE’S FELY LOVE BETWEEN IENDS—BUT THROUGH ALL, THERE’S NOT A HT OF SEXUAL CHEMISTRY.LOOK, I KNOW WHAT YOU’RE THKG—SIR, THIS IS TOY STORY; WHAT EXACTLY ARE YOU EXPECTG? IF YOU LOOK AT OTHER ROMANC THE ANCHISE—WOODY AND BO PEEP, AND JSE AND BUZZ—THERE’S NO DOUBT THAT THERE’S REAL LOVE THERE BETWEEN THE SENTIENT TOYS. THEIR PASSN FOR ONE ANOTHER TRANSCENDS MORE THAN SIMPLY BEG TERTED EACH OTHER’S OUTFS. THE SAME NNOT BE SAID OF THE MATTEL DOLLS. THAT’S MA EVINT WHEN KEN FALLY GETS AN OPPORTUNY FOR TIMACY WH BARBIE. “THIS IS WHERE THE MAGIC HAPPENS,” HE TELLS BARBIE WHEN THEY FALLY GO TO HIS DREAMHOE TOGETHER, HAVG PARENTS ALL OVER THE WORLD CLUTCHG THEIR PEARLS. BUT FEAR NOT: KEN SIMPLY TAK BARBIE TO… HIS WALK- WARDROBE. ANY SEMBLANCE OF ROMANCE MAK WAY FOR IENDSHIP, WHEN THE PAIR JUBILANTLY PESE KEN’S OUTFS. AND STEAD OF DOG SOMETHG WILD LIKE KISSG BARBIE, KEN PUTS ON A FASHN SHOW FOR HER STEAD. THE FILM WON’T SAY , BUT A POST-CREDS PUNCHLE ABOUT KEN’S HANDWRG, PLETE WH HEARTS AND STARS SURROUNDG HIS NAME, TELLS WHAT WE NEED TO KNOW.THE HEAVILY IMPLIED NATURE OF KEN’S GAYNS TOY STORY 3 HARKENS BACK TO HOLLYWOOD’S TRADNAL GAY BT IEND-TYPE CHARACTERS. IN THE HAYS CO ERA, EXPLIC REFERENC TO HOMOSEXUALY WEREN’T ALLOWED, SO CHARACTERS LIKE VAN BUREN (FRANKL PANGBORN) 1937’S EASY LIVG, KIP (DAVID WAYNE) 1949’S ADAM’S RIB, OR ADDISON (GEE SANRS) 1950’S ALL ABOUT EVE STEAD WERE IMBUED WH EFFEMATE CHARACTERISTICS, OFFERG A GLIMPSE OUTSI OF HETERONORMATIVY WHOUT EXPLICLY BEG QUEER.NONE OF THE CHARACTERS WERE THE SAME—SOME WERE TTY, OTHERS SWEET. SOME HAD ULTERR MOTIV, AND OTHERS OFFERED UNNDNAL SUPPORT. BUT EACH OF THE GAY BT IENDS WAS TRSILLY FED BY THEIR RELATNSHIPS WH THEIR STRAIGHT IENDS. WE NEVER REALLY LEARNED MUCH ABOUT THEM AS DIVIDUALS. THEY LIVED ON THE MARGS, FLHG OUT THEIR STRAIGHT UNTERPARTS, HARDLY HAVG A PURPOSE WHOUT THEM; THAT PORTRAYAL REMAS TE TODAY. PHOTO ILLTRATN BY KELLY CAMERO / THE DAILY BEAST / PHOTOS BY GETTY / WARNER BROS. DES LATER, 2010, THE GAY BT IEND WAS ALL THE RAGE; TEEN VOGUE EVEN WENT SO FAR AS TO PROCLAIM THE GBF AS THE SUMMER’S MT-HAVE ACCSORY. BUT UNLIKE THE FIRST HALF OF THE 20TH CENTURY, TODAY’S CEMA, THE GBF IS ALLOWED TO BE OPENLY GAY. AT THE SAME TIME, THEY STILL BARELY REGISTER AS PEOPLE WH CHARACTER TRAS BEYOND THEIR RELATNSHIPS WH THEIR STRAIGHT UNTERPARTS. IN MOVI LIKE MEAN GIRLS (2004), THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA (2006), EASY A (2010), NO STRGS ATTACHED (2011), AND ISN’T IT ROMANTIC (2019), GAY IENDS EXIST ENTIRELY THE ORB OF THEIR FEMALE IENDS. IT’S SUCH A STRONG TROPE THAT EVEN PERSISTS QUEER ROMANTIC EDI: 2020’S HAPPIT SEASON FDS JOHN (DAN LEVY) OFFERG ADVICE AND SNARKY ONE-LERS TO HIS LBIAN BTIE LI OF MEANGFUL CHARACTER VELOPMENT.IN TOY STORY 3, THE SAME IS TE OF KEN. HIS EXISTENCE PENDS ON AND CIRCULAT AROUND BARBIE. IN BARBIE, KEN HAS FOUND SOMEONE WHO REALLY UNRSTANDS HIM. HE DON’T GET ALONG WH THE OTHER TOYS, WHO MOCK HIM FOR BEG A “GIRL'S TOY.” BUT BARBIE LOV FASHN, JT LIKE HE DO. “NO ONE APPRECIAT CLOTH HERE, BARBIE,” KEN LAMENTS TO BARBIE, ABOUT THE OTHER TOYS’ TREATMENT OF HIM. “NO ONE!” BUT BARBIE DO, AND FOR KEN, THAT’S LIFE-CHANGG.THERE ARE PLENTY OF REASONS WHY THE FILM WOULDN’T OUTRIGHTLY STATE THAT KEN IS HOMOSEXUAL. NOT ONLY DO DISNEY SELF HAVE A PLITED HISTORY WH QUEER CHARACTERS, BUT KEN AND BARBIE ARE ALSO THE PROPERTY OF MATTEL, WHICH HAS ALWAYS BEEN STEADFAST ASSERTG KEN’S HETEROSEXUALY. THAT’S NEVER BEEN CLEARER THAN 1993 WHEN THE TOY PANY TRIED TO REIGNE KEN’S POPULARY MATTEL’S SOLUTN? EARRG MAGIC KEN. EARRG MAGIC KEN WAS A FIERCER, FELY MORE QUEER KEN THAN EVER BEFORE. THIS VERSN OF THE DOLL HAD BLEACHED BLON HAIR, A PURPLE LEATHER VT (!), A PK-PURPLE MH TOP (!!), AND OF URSE, AND EARRG THE “GAY EAR”. BUT THAT’S NOT ALL: AROUND KEN’S NECK WAS SOMETHG THAT ANY ACTIVE PARTICIPANT OF THE QUEER SCENE THE ’90S REGNIZED STANTLY—A CK RG (!!!).THE EARRG MAGIC KEN TURNED BARBIE’S BOYIEND TO AN OUT-AND-PROUD HOMOSEXUAL RAVER. MATTEL, OF URSE, VEHEMENTLY NIED ANY CLAIMS THAT KEN WAS GAY, LET ALONE THAT HE HAD SOMETHG AS PREPOSTERO AS A CK RG AROUND HIS NECK. AS LISA MCKENDALL, FORMER MANAGER OF MARKETG AND MUNITNS, SAID AN TERVIEW ABOUT THE DOLL, “WE’RE NOT THE BS OF PUTTG CK RGS TO THE HANDS OF LTLE GIRLS.”REGARDLS OF MATTEL’S TENTNS, ’S HARD TO NY WHAT THE EYE N SEE. DPE THE NAME, CK RGS AT THE TIME WERE ED AS A FASHN ACCSORY AND A SIGN OF FIANT QUEERNS AND SEX POSIVY. AS A RULT, GAY MEN BOUGHT THE DOLL DROV, AND SPE MATTEL ULTIMATELY RELLG THE DOLL AND WIPG AWAY ANY TRACE OF EARRG MAGIC KEN, WAS NEAR-IMPOSSIBLE TO SEE KEN AS ANYTHG BUT THE GLOR HOMOSEXUAL HE WAS BORN TO BE OM THEN ON. MATTEL SPENT THE NEXT UPLE OF S TRYG TO RETA KEN’S MORE HETERONORMATIVE, MASCULE IMAGE, BUT THE VEIL WAS LIFTED, AND THERE WAS NO GOG BACK. PHOTO ILLTRATN BY KELLY CAMERO/THE DAILY BEAST/PHOTOS BY GETTY/WARNER BROS. THOUGH MATTEL DON’T SEEM TO BE WILLG TO SAY KEN IS ACTUALLY GAY, THE KEN DOLLS OF RECENT YEARS SEEM TO REALLY LEAN TO KEN’S QUEERNS. THE YASSIFITN OF KEN IS CLEARLY UNRWAY. WHILE THERE IS NO WAY TO “DRS GAY,” THERE ARE SEVERAL DOLLS THAT SEEM TO SUGGT OTHERWISE, SUCH AS:FASHNISTA KEN #193, WHO LOOKS VERY EXCED TO TELL YOU ABOUT HIS NEW OBSSN, TROYE SIVAN;TRAVEL KEN DOLL, WHO HAS A SATCHEL PERFECT FOR BATHHO AND A PURPLE OVERNIGHT BAG THAT LERALLY PROCLAIMS HE’S “EXTRA;”KEN LOOKS DOLL, SERVG “I’M GONNA GIVE YOU A MAKEOVER”-TYPE REALNS WHILE SPORTG BLACK PLEATHER PANTS;THIS KEN, WHO WEARS THE LEAST HETEROSEXUAL DOUBLE NIM IMAGABLE.WHILE I HAVE A FEELG THE NEW BARBIE MOVIE WILL PUT THE WORK TO NVCE THAT KEN IS A HETERO DU WHO LOV NOTHG LIFE MORE THAN BARBIE HERSELF, THE WRG’S ALREADY ON THE WALL: KEN IS, AND ALWAYS WILL BE, BARBIE’S GAY BT IEND.KEEP OBSSG! SIGN UP FOR THE DAILY BEAST’S OBSSED NEWSLETTER AND FOLLOW ON FACEBOOK, TWTER, INSTAGRAM AND TIKTOK.READ MORE OF OUR BARBIE VERAGE HERE. BARRY LEVT
• SYPHILIS AMONG GAY, BISEXUAL, TWO-SPIR AND OTHER MEN WHO HAVE SEX WH MEN: A ROURCE FOR POPULATN-SPECIFIC PREVENTN

STD FACTS – WHAT GAY, BISEXUAL AND OTHER MEN WHO HAVE SEX WH MEN NEED TO KNOW ABOUT SEXUALLY TRANSMTED DISEAS

Shigella Infectns among Gay & Bisexual Men — CDC fact sheet that provis general rmatn and preventn tips for MSM about the diarrheal disease, Shigellosis.

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

In fact, gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex wh men make up more than half of the people livg wh HIV the Uned Stat and experience two thirds of all new HIV fectns each year.

The large percentage of gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex wh men who have HIV and STDs means that, as a group, they have a higher chance of beg exposed to the diseas.

CDC’s Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr Health Servic page has rourc that n help you fd health re provirs that are skilled providg health servic to gay and bisexual men. The human papillomavis (HPV) vacce is also available for gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex wh men up to 26 years of age to prevent genal warts and other HPV-associated diseas and ndns such as oropharyngeal or anal ncer.

IS TE THAT GAY SEX HAS A HIGHER RISK OF STDS?

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. Department of Health and Human Servic •Published: April 13, 2022•3 m readTopicsSyphilis ntu to disproportnately affect gay, bisexual and other men who have sex wh men (MSM), but a s-long crease reported s may be reversg, acrdg to Sexually Transmted Disease (STD) Surveillance, 2020.

The CDC annual report was published this week durg STD Awarens Week apparent levelg-off reported primary and sendary (P&S) syphilis s among gay and bisexual men is a small glimmer of hope an otherwise ncerng report.

” Above is a photo of the homosexual bathhoe “Steamworks, ” which ss promently (at the 3246 addrs) on Halsted Street the heart of Chigo’s homosexual “Boystown” neighborhood. ‘Homo-promiscuy’ is a major factor the spread of syphilis, HIV and other STDs, but polilly-speakg, iastic “gay” sex clubs like this one are apparently untouchable. In May, the feral Centers for Disease Control and Preventn (CDC) announced that such a high percentage of new syphilis s are lked to homosexualy-practicg mal that  now nsirs syphilis “predomantly an MSM [men who have sex wh men] epimic.

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OR ARE YOU NEW TO THIS FIELD? CURAT LEARNG OPPORTUNI FOR YOU, AND THE PEOPLE YOU SERVE AND LLABORATE WH.STAY UP TO DATE WH THE WEBARS, TWTER CHATS, NFERENC AND MORE THIS SECTN.MORE LEARNG OPPORTUNIBLOGGET TTED. FD SERVIC + PREPSEARCHGOESPAñOL ESPAñOL ES GET TTED. FD SERVIC + PREPSEARCHOPEN LOTOR SEARCHHIV SERVICES LOCATORSEARCH⨯CLOSEHOMEBLOGSIGNS OF A SEA CHANGE? SYPHILIS INCREAS MAY BE REVERSG AMONG GAY & BISEXUAL MENSIGNS OF A SEA CHANGE? SYPHILIS INCREAS MAY BE REVERSG AMONG GAY & BISEXUAL MENCONTENT FROM: LEANDRO MENA, MD, MPH, DIRECTOR, DIVISN OF STD PREVENTN, NATNAL CENTER FOR HIV, VIRAL HEPATIS, STD, AND TB PREVENTN, CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTN, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVIC •PUBLISHED: APRIL 13, 2022•3 M READTOPICSCDCCENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL & PREVENTNEHE<P>ENDG THE HIV EPIMIC THE U.S. IATIVE</P>GAY & BISEXUAL MENGAY & BISEXUAL MENSTDSSEXUALLY TRANSMTED DISEASSTI PLANFERAL STI ACTN PLANSURVEILLANCEPUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCESHARESHARE ON FACEBOOKSHARE ON TWTERSHARE ON LKEDINSHARE ON EMAILSYPHILIS NTU TO DISPROPORTNATELY AFFECT GAY, BISEXUAL AND OTHER MEN WHO HAVE SEX WH MEN (MSM), BUT A S-LONG CREASE REPORTED S MAY BE REVERSG, ACRDG TO SEXUALLY TRANSMTED DISEASE (STD) SURVEILLANCE, 2020. THE CDC ANNUAL REPORT WAS PUBLISHED THIS WEEK DURG STD AWARENS WEEK 2022.THIS APPARENT LEVELG-OFF REPORTED PRIMARY AND SENDARY (P&S) SYPHILIS S AMONG GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN IS A SMALL GLIMMER OF HOPE AN OTHERWISE NCERNG REPORT. THE DATA LLECTED 2020 FOR THIS REPORT, SHOW THAT EVEN THE FIRST YEAR OF THE COVID-19 PANMIC, 2.4 LN S OF CHLAMYDIA, GONORRHEA, AND SYPHILIS WERE REPORTED THE UNED STAT.NATNALLY, THE NUMBER OF P&S SYPHILIS (THE MOST FECT STAG OF THE DISEASE) S AMONG MSM SLIGHTLY CLED – 2.2 PERCENT – DURG 2019-2020. HOWEVER, THIS POPULATN REMAS DISPROPORTNATELY AFFECTED – PRISG 43 PERCENT OF ALL P&S S.TRIED AND TE PREVENTN STRATEGI WORK AGAST THIS VERY PREVENTABLE FECTN.FOR ANYONE WHO GETS SYPHILIS, DIAGNOSIS AND TIMELY TREATMENT ARE SENTIAL. CDC REMENDS THAT ALL MSM BE TTED AT LEAST ANNUALLY FOR SYPHILIS. SOME MAY NEED TO BE TTED MORE EQUENTLY, CLUDG THOSE WH MULTIPLE SEX PARTNERS. SYPHILIS N BE CURED WH THE RIGHT ANTIBTICS. IF NOT TREATED, SYPHILIS N E SER HEALTH PROBLEMS, CLUDG NROLOGIC (BRA AND NERVE) PROBLEMS, EYE PROBLEMS, AND EVEN BLDNS.WHILE SYPHILIS N CREASE THE RISK OF HIV TRANSMISSN, A SYPHILIS DIAGNOSIS N ALSO OPEN THE DOOR TO HIV PREVENTN, CLUDG PRE-EXPOSURE PROPHYLAXIS (OR PREP). STD SURVEILLANCE DATA SHOW THAT THE HIV PREVENTN OPPORTUNY HERE IS GREAT – 2020, OVER 8,400 MSM DIAGNOSED WH P&S SYPHILIS WERE HIV-NEGATIVE AND AN ADDNAL 2,300 HAD UNKNOWN HIV STAT. EACH PERSON DIAGNOSED WH SYPHILIS REPRENTS AN HIV PREVENTN OPPORTUNY. AND FOR THOSE WHO ARE LIVG WH HIV AND ARE DIAGNOSED WH SYPHILIS, THEIR SYPHILIS DIAGNOSIS N BE A CRIL HIV RE TOUCHPOT.ENDG THE HIV EPIMIC THE U.S. (EHE) HAS PROVID A PATHWAY TO ADDRS THIS OVERLAP. AS PART OF EHE, CDC IS VTG ROURC TO SLE UP QUALY HIV PREVENTN SERVIC STD CLICS. BY ADDRSG SYPHILIS AND OTHER STIS ALONGSI HIV, WE ARE TACKLG THIS PROBLEMATIC SYNMIC, OR TERNNECTED EPIMICS.WE HAVE A LONG WAY TO GO. 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The health agency’s May 9, 2014 Mortaly and Morbidy Weekly Report (MMWR) [reprted PDF format HERE] found that almost 84 percent of primary and sendary syphilis s reported 2012 were among homosexual men (MSM)–up om 77 percent 2009.

This ver is om the 1991 versn of Jack Hart’s “Gay Sex” manual — which ntas some verbiage regardg sex between men and boys (pedophilia) that was subsequently removed om the later versn of the book published 1998. Several factors ntribute to this difference: Gay men have the opportuny to engage sex wh more people than do most heterosexual men, and some practic mon among gays–pecially rimmg [oral-anal perversn*] and anal terurse–are highly efficient ways of transmtg disease…. *Hart scrib “rimmg” his em on this repulsive homosexual sex act as follows: “Orally stimulatg, explorg, and massagg a partner’s an wh the tongue, scientifilly known as anilg.

One of the thgs I most appreciated about Phil Robertson’s ments to the snoots at GQ was the manner which he lorfully poted out the anatomil absurdy of homosex.

NEW STI FIGUR SHOW NTUED CREAS AMONG GAY MEN

Var “dildos” cludg gigantic fake penis and “fistg” dildos (mimickg the grotque “gay” sexual perversn which a man serts his hand and forearm up the rectum of his “partner”) — for sale a San Francis Castro district sex store lled, “Do Your Mother Know? In so dog Robertson phed back agast one of the key strategi of the archects of the LGBTQ putsch: that is to take the “sex” out of “homosexualy” – to refe as a simple orientatn (like beg left-hand) and disnnect as much as possible om what people actually do to each other bed (or a bathroom or the bh). For proof of this simply read After the Ball: How Ameri Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of Gays the 90s (Doubleday: New York, 1989) – the semal book by homosexual, and Harvard ted, activists Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen.

Instead, the imagery of sex per se should be downplayed, and the issue of gay rights rced, as far as possible, to an abstract social qutn, ” Kirk and Madsen wre a sectn  After the Ball tled, “Strategy: Persuasn, not Invasn.

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

Christians and anyone else ncerned about the normalizatn of homosexualy and other perversns of God’s sign for genr and sexual behavr should shake off the shackl of Newspeak and beg to gracly but firmly – g irony and shock where necsary – jo Robertson phg back agast this agenda. We need to make like Elijah and pot out the absurdi herent the practice of homosex; how the wag of s will not only surely be spirual ath, but n lead to physil sickns and ath as well. Acrdg to one peer-reviewed [1997] study done towards the end of the 20th century, the life expectancy for the average 20-year-old gay or bisexual man [asssg “val statistics data … obtaed for a large Canadian urban centre om 1987 to 1992”] was 8 to 21 years ls than his heterosexual unterpart.

KEN HAS ALWAYS BEEN BARBIE’S GAY BT FRIEND—NOT HER BOYIENDBARBIE’S BELOVED BEARD?FOR YEARS, PEOPLE HAVE QUTNED WHAT ROLE KEN REALLY PLAYS BARBIE’S LIFE. BUT THE TTH IS PLA SIGHT: KEN’S NOT BOYIEND MATERIAL. AT LEAST, NOT FOR BARBIE.BARRY LEVTFREELANCE WRERUPDATED JUL. 21, 2023 4:35AM EDT PHOTO ILLTRATN BY THE DAILY BEAST/GETTYIT’S BARBIE WEEK AT THE DAILY BEAST’S OBSSED, CELEBRATG THE DOLL’S POP-CULTURE HISTORY, OUR FAVORE BARBIE MEMORI, AND A CERTA MAJOR MOVIE. READ ALL OF OUR VERAGE HERE!“SHE’S EVERYTHG. HE’S JT KEN.” THAT’S THE TAGLE FOR THE WILDLY ANTICIPATED BARBIE MOVIE, DIRECTED BY GRETA GERWIG AND STARRG MARGOT ROBBIE AND RYAN GOSLG. THE IMPLITN IS CLEAR: COME FOR BARBIE, AND STAY FOR BARBIE… BUT KEN HAPPENS TO BE THERE TOO.KEN HAS LONG BEEN SEEN AS NOTHG BUT BARBIE’S HUMAN ACCSORY, BUT WASN’T ALWAYS THIS WAY FOR THE POOR MISUNRSTOOD DOLL. WHEN KEN WAS FIRST TRODUCED 1961, HIS FIRST MERCIAL TRIED TO POSN HIM AS BARBIE’S EQUAL AND, UNMISTAKABLY, BOYIEND. “GET BOTH BARBIE AND KEN AND SEE WHERE THE ROMANCE WILL LEAD!” THE MERCIAL PROMISED.SCE THEN, LIKE BARBIE, KEN HAS UNRGONE UNTLS TRANSFORMATNS AND FASHNS. BUT AS TIME WENT ON, KEN FOUND HIMSELF AN AFTERTHOUGHT. TOYMAKERS MATTEL NEVER GAVE HIM THE SAME KD OF BACKSTORI AS BARBIE—WHILE SHE’S HAD OVER 200 REERS, KEN HAS HAD JT SOME 40-ODD PROFSNS. (AN CREDIBLE AMOUNT OF JOBS FOR A PERSON, SURE. BUT FOR A DOLL? EMBARRASSG.) BARBIE HAS STARRED LOTS OF VIO GAM AND MORE THAN THREE DOZEN FILMS; KEN HAS HAD A MAJOR ROLE A MERE HANDFUL OF THEM. BUT THERE’S ONE KEY REASON WHY KEN IS ALWAYS LAGGG SIGNIFINTLY BEHD BARBIE AND 'S A LOT EPER THAN THE DOLL’S SEEMG LACK OF POPULARY: KEN HAS BEEN MISST. HE’S NOT BARBIE’S BOYIEND. HE’S BARBIE’S GAY BT IEND.DPE MATTEL’S SISTENCE THAT BARBIE AND KEN ARE A HAPPY ROMANTIC RELATNSHIP, THERE’S PLENTY OF SPECULATN ABOUT KEN’S SEXUALY. EVEN IF HIS MAKERS CLAIM HIM TO BE STRAIGHT, THERE’S MOUNTG PROOF TO THE NTRARY. PERHAPS THE MOST DISPUTABLE EVINCE THAT KEN IS FACT BOTH A MEMBER OF THE QUEER MUNY AND BARBIE’S BTIE, NOT BOY TOY, OM A RATHER SURPRISG PLACE: 2010’S TOY STORY 3.IN TOY STORY 3, BARBIE AND KEN PLAY A SURPRISGLY LARGE ROLE. THEIR TRODUCTN TO THE FILM IS TGED WH ROMANTIC TENSN. WHEN THE PAIR MEET, THE FILM VOK A MON TROPE: A ROMANTIC NEEDLE DROP HS THE MOMENT THE LOVERS LOCK EY. IN THIS SE, ’S “DREAM WEAVER” BY GARY WRIGHT. AS FAR AS BARBIE AND KEN ARE NCERNED, THEY’RE THE ONLY ON THE ROOM. “I LOVE YOUR LEG WARMERS!” KEN TELLS BARBIE. “NICE AST,” SHE BANTERS, WH HEAVY EMPHASIS ON THE FIRST SYLLABLE. BEFORE THGS GET TOO HEATED, THEY LOCK ARMS AND WALK OFF TOGETHER. PHOTO ILLTRATN BY KELLY CAMERO / THE DAILY BEAST / GETTY LET’S BE HONT—SPE THE ROMANTIC OVERTON OF THE SCENE, THEIR BRIEF EXCHANGE TELLS EVERYTHG ABOUT HOW THEY SEE EACH OTHER. KEN DON’T MENTN ANYTHG ABOUT BARBIE’S BODY, STEAD HIGHLIGHTG HER LEG WARMERS. BUT BARBIE IS UNSUBTLY TRYG TO SCE KEN JT TWO WORDS. SHE’S AFTER KEN, BUT KEN IS AFTER SOMEONE WHOSE CLOTH HE N ADMIRE.SURE, LATER THE FILM, KEN AND BARBIE SAY “I LOVE YOU” TO EACH OTHER. AND THEY GO BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN SAYG EACH WORD OF “I LOVE YOU”—SO SOMEONE DIFFERENT N SAY “LOVE” EACH TIME, AS KEN EXPLAS. HE MENTNS OFFHAND THAT HE HAS EVERYTHG EXCEPT SOMEONE TO SHARE WH. BARBIE AND KEN EVEN NUZZLE THEIR NOS TOGETHER. Y, THERE’S FELY LOVE BETWEEN IENDS—BUT THROUGH ALL, THERE’S NOT A HT OF SEXUAL CHEMISTRY.LOOK, I KNOW WHAT YOU’RE THKG—SIR, THIS IS TOY STORY; WHAT EXACTLY ARE YOU EXPECTG? IF YOU LOOK AT OTHER ROMANC THE ANCHISE—WOODY AND BO PEEP, AND JSE AND BUZZ—THERE’S NO DOUBT THAT THERE’S REAL LOVE THERE BETWEEN THE SENTIENT TOYS. THEIR PASSN FOR ONE ANOTHER TRANSCENDS MORE THAN SIMPLY BEG TERTED EACH OTHER’S OUTFS. THE SAME NNOT BE SAID OF THE MATTEL DOLLS. THAT’S MA EVINT WHEN KEN FALLY GETS AN OPPORTUNY FOR TIMACY WH BARBIE. “THIS IS WHERE THE MAGIC HAPPENS,” HE TELLS BARBIE WHEN THEY FALLY GO TO HIS DREAMHOE TOGETHER, HAVG PARENTS ALL OVER THE WORLD CLUTCHG THEIR PEARLS. BUT FEAR NOT: KEN SIMPLY TAK BARBIE TO… HIS WALK- WARDROBE. ANY SEMBLANCE OF ROMANCE MAK WAY FOR IENDSHIP, WHEN THE PAIR JUBILANTLY PESE KEN’S OUTFS. AND STEAD OF DOG SOMETHG WILD LIKE KISSG BARBIE, KEN PUTS ON A FASHN SHOW FOR HER STEAD. THE FILM WON’T SAY , BUT A POST-CREDS PUNCHLE ABOUT KEN’S HANDWRG, PLETE WH HEARTS AND STARS SURROUNDG HIS NAME, TELLS WHAT WE NEED TO KNOW.THE HEAVILY IMPLIED NATURE OF KEN’S GAYNS TOY STORY 3 HARKENS BACK TO HOLLYWOOD’S TRADNAL GAY BT IEND-TYPE CHARACTERS. IN THE HAYS CO ERA, EXPLIC REFERENC TO HOMOSEXUALY WEREN’T ALLOWED, SO CHARACTERS LIKE VAN BUREN (FRANKL PANGBORN) 1937’S EASY LIVG, KIP (DAVID WAYNE) 1949’S ADAM’S RIB, OR ADDISON (GEE SANRS) 1950’S ALL ABOUT EVE STEAD WERE IMBUED WH EFFEMATE CHARACTERISTICS, OFFERG A GLIMPSE OUTSI OF HETERONORMATIVY WHOUT EXPLICLY BEG QUEER.NONE OF THE CHARACTERS WERE THE SAME—SOME WERE TTY, OTHERS SWEET. SOME HAD ULTERR MOTIV, AND OTHERS OFFERED UNNDNAL SUPPORT. BUT EACH OF THE GAY BT IENDS WAS TRSILLY FED BY THEIR RELATNSHIPS WH THEIR STRAIGHT IENDS. WE NEVER REALLY LEARNED MUCH ABOUT THEM AS DIVIDUALS. THEY LIVED ON THE MARGS, FLHG OUT THEIR STRAIGHT UNTERPARTS, HARDLY HAVG A PURPOSE WHOUT THEM; THAT PORTRAYAL REMAS TE TODAY. PHOTO ILLTRATN BY KELLY CAMERO / THE DAILY BEAST / PHOTOS BY GETTY / WARNER BROS. DES LATER, 2010, THE GAY BT IEND WAS ALL THE RAGE; TEEN VOGUE EVEN WENT SO FAR AS TO PROCLAIM THE GBF AS THE SUMMER’S MT-HAVE ACCSORY. BUT UNLIKE THE FIRST HALF OF THE 20TH CENTURY, TODAY’S CEMA, THE GBF IS ALLOWED TO BE OPENLY GAY. AT THE SAME TIME, THEY STILL BARELY REGISTER AS PEOPLE WH CHARACTER TRAS BEYOND THEIR RELATNSHIPS WH THEIR STRAIGHT UNTERPARTS. IN MOVI LIKE MEAN GIRLS (2004), THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA (2006), EASY A (2010), NO STRGS ATTACHED (2011), AND ISN’T IT ROMANTIC (2019), GAY IENDS EXIST ENTIRELY THE ORB OF THEIR FEMALE IENDS. IT’S SUCH A STRONG TROPE THAT EVEN PERSISTS QUEER ROMANTIC EDI: 2020’S HAPPIT SEASON FDS JOHN (DAN LEVY) OFFERG ADVICE AND SNARKY ONE-LERS TO HIS LBIAN BTIE LI OF MEANGFUL CHARACTER VELOPMENT.IN TOY STORY 3, THE SAME IS TE OF KEN. HIS EXISTENCE PENDS ON AND CIRCULAT AROUND BARBIE. IN BARBIE, KEN HAS FOUND SOMEONE WHO REALLY UNRSTANDS HIM. HE DON’T GET ALONG WH THE OTHER TOYS, WHO MOCK HIM FOR BEG A “GIRL'S TOY.” BUT BARBIE LOV FASHN, JT LIKE HE DO. “NO ONE APPRECIAT CLOTH HERE, BARBIE,” KEN LAMENTS TO BARBIE, ABOUT THE OTHER TOYS’ TREATMENT OF HIM. “NO ONE!” BUT BARBIE DO, AND FOR KEN, THAT’S LIFE-CHANGG.THERE ARE PLENTY OF REASONS WHY THE FILM WOULDN’T OUTRIGHTLY STATE THAT KEN IS HOMOSEXUAL. NOT ONLY DO DISNEY SELF HAVE A PLITED HISTORY WH QUEER CHARACTERS, BUT KEN AND BARBIE ARE ALSO THE PROPERTY OF MATTEL, WHICH HAS ALWAYS BEEN STEADFAST ASSERTG KEN’S HETEROSEXUALY. THAT’S NEVER BEEN CLEARER THAN 1993 WHEN THE TOY PANY TRIED TO REIGNE KEN’S POPULARY MATTEL’S SOLUTN? EARRG MAGIC KEN. EARRG MAGIC KEN WAS A FIERCER, FELY MORE QUEER KEN THAN EVER BEFORE. THIS VERSN OF THE DOLL HAD BLEACHED BLON HAIR, A PURPLE LEATHER VT (!), A PK-PURPLE MH TOP (!!), AND OF URSE, AND EARRG THE “GAY EAR”. BUT THAT’S NOT ALL: AROUND KEN’S NECK WAS SOMETHG THAT ANY ACTIVE PARTICIPANT OF THE QUEER SCENE THE ’90S REGNIZED STANTLY—A CK RG (!!!).THE EARRG MAGIC KEN TURNED BARBIE’S BOYIEND TO AN OUT-AND-PROUD HOMOSEXUAL RAVER. MATTEL, OF URSE, VEHEMENTLY NIED ANY CLAIMS THAT KEN WAS GAY, LET ALONE THAT HE HAD SOMETHG AS PREPOSTERO AS A CK RG AROUND HIS NECK. AS LISA MCKENDALL, FORMER MANAGER OF MARKETG AND MUNITNS, SAID AN TERVIEW ABOUT THE DOLL, “WE’RE NOT THE BS OF PUTTG CK RGS TO THE HANDS OF LTLE GIRLS.”REGARDLS OF MATTEL’S TENTNS, ’S HARD TO NY WHAT THE EYE N SEE. DPE THE NAME, CK RGS AT THE TIME WERE ED AS A FASHN ACCSORY AND A SIGN OF FIANT QUEERNS AND SEX POSIVY. AS A RULT, GAY MEN BOUGHT THE DOLL DROV, AND SPE MATTEL ULTIMATELY RELLG THE DOLL AND WIPG AWAY ANY TRACE OF EARRG MAGIC KEN, WAS NEAR-IMPOSSIBLE TO SEE KEN AS ANYTHG BUT THE GLOR HOMOSEXUAL HE WAS BORN TO BE OM THEN ON. MATTEL SPENT THE NEXT UPLE OF S TRYG TO RETA KEN’S MORE HETERONORMATIVE, MASCULE IMAGE, BUT THE VEIL WAS LIFTED, AND THERE WAS NO GOG BACK. PHOTO ILLTRATN BY KELLY CAMERO/THE DAILY BEAST/PHOTOS BY GETTY/WARNER BROS. THOUGH MATTEL DON’T SEEM TO BE WILLG TO SAY KEN IS ACTUALLY GAY, THE KEN DOLLS OF RECENT YEARS SEEM TO REALLY LEAN TO KEN’S QUEERNS. THE YASSIFITN OF KEN IS CLEARLY UNRWAY. WHILE THERE IS NO WAY TO “DRS GAY,” THERE ARE SEVERAL DOLLS THAT SEEM TO SUGGT OTHERWISE, SUCH AS:FASHNISTA KEN #193, WHO LOOKS VERY EXCED TO TELL YOU ABOUT HIS NEW OBSSN, TROYE SIVAN;TRAVEL KEN DOLL, WHO HAS A SATCHEL PERFECT FOR BATHHO AND A PURPLE OVERNIGHT BAG THAT LERALLY PROCLAIMS HE’S “EXTRA;”KEN LOOKS DOLL, SERVG “I’M GONNA GIVE YOU A MAKEOVER”-TYPE REALNS WHILE SPORTG BLACK PLEATHER PANTS;THIS KEN, WHO WEARS THE LEAST HETEROSEXUAL DOUBLE NIM IMAGABLE.WHILE I HAVE A FEELG THE NEW BARBIE MOVIE WILL PUT THE WORK TO NVCE THAT KEN IS A HETERO DU WHO LOV NOTHG LIFE MORE THAN BARBIE HERSELF, THE WRG’S ALREADY ON THE WALL: KEN IS, AND ALWAYS WILL BE, BARBIE’S GAY BT IEND.KEEP OBSSG! SIGN UP FOR THE DAILY BEAST’S OBSSED NEWSLETTER AND FOLLOW ON FACEBOOK, TWTER, INSTAGRAM AND TIKTOK.READ MORE OF OUR BARBIE VERAGE HERE. BARRY LEVT

) Here [ 2001] the thors actually nmn as “homophobic” anyone who dar to pot to their rearch as evince that homosexualy rri wh certa herent health risks. ) [Edor’s Note: Life expectancy for homosexual men is now much longer pared to when the origal IJE study was done 1997 — due maly to AIDS antiretroviral dgs.

SYPHILIS AMONG GAY, BISEXUAL, TWO-SPIR AND OTHER MEN WHO HAVE SEX WH MEN: A ROURCE FOR POPULATN-SPECIFIC PREVENTN

Read the origal 1997 Canadian study on “gay” and bisexual men’s lifpan HERE and the thors’ short 2001 rponse (referenced by Holmberg above) to nservativ who ed their data to cricize pro-homosexual activism HERE. Posted A - What do the Bible say about homosexualy?, Anal Cancer, Health & Science, HIV/AIDS, News, Refg Moraly, Refg Normal, Sexual Revolutn, Sodomy, STDs, The Bible, Church, & Homosexualy |.

Photo om the NAMBLA webse of the late “gay” in Harry Hay (far right, wearg hat) speakg at a 1984 meetg of the North Amerin Man/Boy Love Associatn San Francis. Amerins For Tth renews s Halloween tradn of liverg some very sry – or at least highly disturbg — quot om LGBT (Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr) activists and publitns.