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Janis Hunter Gaye, the send wife of Motown great Marv Gaye and the spiratn for several of his songs, died Saturday Rho Island. She was 66. * twista marvin gaye *

Several months after startg the dg, Gabriel says ’s allowed him to be bolr and more unapologetic his sir, to have the kd of joyfully promiscuo, liberated sex that men enjoyed wh one another the or so after the Stonewall rts brought gay life out om the shadows and before the AIDS crisis shroud new, darker on. For the past several years, the nversatn about gay life has been, to a large gree, a nversatn about gay marriage.

This summer—on social media, on Fire Island, at the Christopher Street pier, and certa horts around the untry—what many gay men are talkg about among themselv is Tvada. And jt as the birth-ntrol pill ed sgle women the sixti to wonr whether they’d be seen as “sluts” and to ternalize that real and imaged shame, some gay men wonr how Tvada will play the straight world; sends a strikgly different msage om the one the “Sunday Styl” weddg announcements. Other gay men worry that the very existence of such a dg is a kd of betrayal: of those who’ve died the epimic; of fealty to the ndom, an object alternately evokg fear and rilience, hot sex and safe-sex fatigue; and of a md-set of sexual pnce that has erned gay-male life sce the early ’80s.

Even after treatments for HIV ma a manageable disease for many, gay men have absorbed the msage that a latex sheath is all that stands between them and the abyss. Given that tape loop playg the llective gay-male head, ’s hard to tell whether the argument the gay muny is havg wh self about Tvada is wh the medil facts on the ground or wh the very real mons of history: What are gay men sred of? For the generatn of gay men who me of age post-AIDS, anxiety has sentially preced lt as a first rponse to thoughts of sex.

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Sar Golub, a Hunter College psychology profsor, is leadg a study at Callen-Lor that dit that half of gay men thk of HIV all or most of the time durg sex. “The msage om TV shows that was dmmed to as gay boys was that we uld get this disease and die and make our parents very sad.

At the end of June, durg Pri weekend, Governor Cuomo, who has ma gay rights a strategic part of his platform, said he wanted to make wir accs to the dg part of a new effort to eradite the AIDS epimic the state by 2020. But PrEP has been studied and discsed largely among gay men bee the hight HIV rat rema stubbornly wh that group, pecially among young gay men of lor. In 2012, the agency reported that HIV rat gay men between ag 13 and 24 rose 22 percent recent years.

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In an pennt analysis of that data, a top rearcher projected that if HIV fectns ntue at current rat, half of young gay men will have HIV by age 50.

) Andrew Sullivan, who is HIV-posive, wrote on his blog rponse: “Image a scene [ the play] when someone sh to a [Gay Men’s Health Crisis, which Kramer helped found 1981] meetg and clar that there’s now a pill that will make you immune to HIV if you take once a day. ” Michael Lus, the gay-porn mogul who recently swched om beg an arnt ndom advote to a PrEP-taker who now allows bareback sex his films, wrote on the Out-magaze blog: “Larry Kramer is a hero many ways, but this time he’s fightg on the wrong si of history.

In a talk this wter at the Strand bookstore to promote his new memoir, Body Counts, Stb, the Poz founr, said of PrEP, “Rather than givg [HIV-negative people] the life skills teachg them how to be healthy about their sexualy … the ia [is unbelievable] that we are gog to put tens of lns of gay men on PrEP and bankpt the enomy to spray people wh Raid.

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) “AIDS as a huge crisis for middle-class gay men end the ’90s, ” he says, “but I don’t thk I’m the only gay man my generatn who will never get over .

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