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• SEX PARTI AMONG YOUNG GAY, BISEXUAL, AND OTHER MEN WHO HAVE SEX WH MEN NEW YORK CY: ATTENDANCE AND BEHAVR
• THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
• HIV AND ALL GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN
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SEX PARTI AMONG YOUNG GAY, BISEXUAL, AND OTHER MEN WHO HAVE SEX WH MEN NEW YORK CY: ATTENDANCE AND BEHAVR

Sex parti where HIV-posive gay men meet for unprotected sex uld help rce the spread of HIV, but uld volve a risk of sexually transmted fectns and superfectn wh ristant stras of HIV, acrdg to a pilot study nducted New York and published the October edn of Sexually Transmted Infectns.

THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985

Although the study is prented measured language, and is reful to highlight both the potentially posive and negative health implitns of sex parti volvg HIV-posive gay men, or “POZ parti” as the thors ll them, a media release om the publishers of the journal ed much more sensatnal language and led to alarmist headl such as “POZ parti spread super stra of HIV” the popular prs.

Events such as POZ parti may reprent an attempt by HIV-posive gay men to select sexual partners of the same HIV stat, so-lled “serosortg”. Although there has been extensive rearch to the sexual behavur of gay men recent years, ltle is known about gay sex parti.

HIV AND ALL GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN

Sendly, dg e is not a domant feature of the events; and, thirdly, sex parti volvg HIV-posive gay men may provi an as yet unrealised opportuny for health promotn. Gay and bisexual men n take the followg steps to rce their risk of HIV fectn:.

Every Thursday through Sunday night San Francis’s Castro district, someone named Marshall his hoe to host a party for other gay men who share a siar sexual tert: no ndoms. Durg this pse, I fd myself, as a 28-year-old gay man, wonrg if this is what reee sex was like the ’70s. The anti-ndom statements were more than enough to trate, furiate and sadn the majory of gay men who fought so diligently over the years to rce fectn rat while buryg their loved on.

In September 1997 the bate leapt om the gay prs to full public view wh a piece Newsweek lled “A Deadly Dance. ” that fundg for AIDS preventn would dry up if ernment agenci took notice of gay men’s supposed disregard for public health.

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In an episo last season of the popular televisn seri ER, a gay sex worker scribed how his ctomers paid him extra for bareback sex. For years now, public health experts have told HIV posive gay men to err on the si of utn by g ndoms even wh other posiv, though the scientific jury on refectn is still out.

Meanwhile, many gay men wh HIV assume that no five news is good news, and ntue ndomls. “Protease is helpg men live longer, but gay men have fally had up to here. ” In fact, the emergence of this new sexual subculture also cis wh an ongog crisis HIV preventn, cludg recent attacks on the ndom om such gay psychologists as Walt Ots, PhD, such moraly-and-monogamy advot as Gabriel Rotello and such “post-AIDS” sex-lib theorists as Eric Rof.

Meantime, advanc treatment ntue to multiply the areas of doubt through which gay men wanr. The natnal AIDS tablishment’s polarizatn of all behavr to eher “high risk” or “low or no risk” leav many gay men -- whose behavrs ri somewhere between the extrem -- unsupported their sexual cisns. The risk that has placed barebackg at the center of natnal bat on gay sexual mor, of urse, is that of HIV.

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Eighteen years to the HIV holot, a gay man -- regardls of serostat -- is likely to have an immensely plex relatnship not only to unsafe sex but to the vis self. ” Yet as Walt Ots, William Johnston and other experts on the psychology of HIV negative men have documented, there are also other emotns drawg them to the vis, cludg survivor guilt, a sense of evabily about the prospect of seronversn, an intifitn of AIDS wh gayns, an associatn of seronversn wh a posive life transformatn and more. Pete, a 33-year-old gay man, exprs this ambivalence.

Lt anyone believe the parti are nfed only to urban gay mecs, they are also anized ci such as St. In addn to the Inter, barebackers have appropriated a number of time-honored gay male methods for cisg, cludg the ’70s system of visually munitg a preference for specific sex acts by wearg lor-d handkerchiefs. In operatn for more than two years and open to all gay men -- regardls of serostat -- highlights the erotic appeal of HIV-fected semen.

The gap between public HIV preventn msag and gay men’s behavr behd closed doors is wir than ever, for a number of reasons. For a prentatn at last year’s Natnal Lbian and Gay Health Associatn Conference San Francis, I crafted a draft mol of “Safer Barebackg Consiratns.

While ’s unlikely that a ntgent of bareback advot will march this year’s gay pri paras, this muny is creasgly visible. Intend only for gay men who have already cid not to e ndoms for anal sex, the strategi may help rce the harm associated wh barebackg, some advot believe. The current analysis exam sex party attendance and behavr a sample of 540 emergent adult gay, bisexual, and other YMSM New York Cy, ag 18–29 years.

Keywords: HIV, Gay, Bisexual, YMSM, Sex parti, Preventn, Commercial sexIntroductnThree s sce the emergence of HIV/AIDS the USA, 1 the epimic ntu to affect over 1. MethodsProject Dire was a cross-sectnal survey of 540 emergent adult gay, bisexual, and other MSM NYC, ag 18–29 years.

RultsThe sample nsisted of 540 gay, bisexual, and other MSM, rangg age om 18 to 29 years old. 32Sexual orientatnGay75. In an terview for the New York Tim, a rearcher om the Gay Men’s Health Crisis stated, “If you close down the [public] sex clubs, jt driv this activy unrground.

Rare ncer seen 41 homosexuals. Environmental factors relatn to unprotected sexual behavr among gay, bisexual, and other MSM.

Sexual risk behavr and venu for meetg sex partners: an tercept survey of gay and bisexual men LA and NYC.