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• IS TE THAT GAY SEX HAS A HIGHER RISK OF STDS?
• HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR?
• DIFFERENT HIV RAT AMONG GAY MEN AND STRAIGHT PEOPLE NOT FULLY EXPLAED BY SEXUAL BEHAVR
• STD FACTS – WHAT GAY, BISEXUAL AND OTHER MEN WHO HAVE SEX WH MEN NEED TO KNOW ABOUT SEXUALLY TRANSMTED DISEAS
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR HEALTH
• HIV NOW FECTS MORE HETEROSEXUAL PEOPLE THAN GAY OR BISEXUAL MEN – WE NEED A NEW STRATEGY
• HIV AND ALL GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN
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IS TE THAT GAY SEX HAS A HIGHER RISK OF STDS?

Get Vaccated: Gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex wh men have a greater chance of gettg Hepatis A, Hepatis B, and HPV. The overall number of reported STDs has been on the rise sce 2014 and shows no sign of slowg, wh fectns disproportnately affectg young people unr the age of 25, racial and ethnic mory groups, and gay or bisexual men. CDC is fundg a monstratn project 4 jurisdictns to intify active HIV transmissn works and implement HIV terventns for Hispanic/Lato gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex wh men.

In 2017, CDC award nearly $11 ln per year for five years to 30 CBOs to provi HIV ttg to young gay and bisexual men of lor and transgenr youth of lor, wh the goal of intifyg undiagnosed HIV fectns and lkg those who have HIV to re and preventn servic.

Is te that if you have gay sex you have more of a chance of ntractg an STD. A gay person’s chance of fectn is no different om a straight person’s.

HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR?

Gay, straight, or somewhere between, ’s important to practice safer sex. Comparative prevalence rat of sexually transmted diseas heterosexual and homosexual men. This study pared prevalence rat of most mon sexually transmted diseas (STD) heterosexual and homosexual men who ma rpectively 12, 201 and 5324 viss to an STD clic over 18 months.

Comparative rat of sexually transmted diseas among heterosexual men, homosexual men, and heterosexual women. As through a glass, darkly: the future of sexually transmissible fectns among gay, bisexual and other men who have sex wh men. Answerg Parents' Qutns About Homosexualy: Helpg parents to accept their child's sexual orientatn.

STI risk was found to be elevated among heterosexual-WSW and bisexual women, whether they report same-sex partners or not, whereas gay-intified WSW were ls likely to report an STI pared to heterosexual women wh oppose sex relatnships only. Among mal, heterosexual-intified MSM did not have a greater likelihood of reportg an STI diagnosis; rather, STI risk was ncentrated among gay and bisexual intified men who reported both male and female sexual partners.

DIFFERENT HIV RAT AMONG GAY MEN AND STRAIGHT PEOPLE NOT FULLY EXPLAED BY SEXUAL BEHAVR

For example, g the Natnal Health and Nutrnal Survey 2001–2006, Xu, Maya, and Markowz (2010a) showed that jt over 7% of women reported a same-sex sexual relatnship, of which 50% reported a heterosexual inty, 32% intified as bisexual, and 18% intify as gay or lbian.

Usg the same data, Xu, Sternberg, and Markowz (2010b) showed roughly 5% of mal reported a same-sex relatnship, of which 40% intified as heterosexual, 22% intified as bisexual, and 38% intified as gay. Some rearch has suggted that gay-MSM report more sexual partners and a higher prevalence of HIV than heterosexual-MSM (Wolski, Jon, Wasserman, & Smh, 2006; Xu et al., 2010b). (2009) exmed differenc self-reported STIs and STI risk by behavr and inty among Latos and found that, pared to heterosexual-MSW, heterosexual-MSM were more likely to report unprotected sex and had been diagnosed wh an STI, but there were no signifint differenc bisexual-MSMW and gay-MSM’s likelihood of reportg an STI pared to heterosexual-MSW.

A sexual mory inty may “flag” gay, lbian, or bisexual intified persons as targets for victimizatn. Ined, several studi have shown that gay, lbian, and bisexual persons experience higher rat of physil and sexual victimizatn both adolcence and adulthood (At, Roberts, Corliss, & Molnar, 2008; Doll et al.

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

Participants were asked to choose “the scriptn that bt fs how you thk about yourself: 100% heterosexual (straight), mostly heterosexual (straight), but somewhat attracted to your own sex; bisexual, that is, attracted to men and women equally; mostly homosexual (mostly gay), but somewhat attracted to the oppose sex; or 100% homosexual (gay). 3 For women, one variable was created that intified women who reported a gay or mostly gay inty and have engaged same-sex sexual relatnship(s) (Gay-WSMW, N = 133). Among mal, 56% of the 100% gay or mostly gay intified participants reported only havg had same-sex sexual relatnship(s) and 44% reported both same- and oppose-sex sexual relatnship(s).

Th, two tegori were created: gay-MSM (Gay-MSM, N = 94) and gay-MSMW (Gay-MSMW, N = 75). While the efficients were signifint, they are far om perfect rrelatns, suggtg that same-sex sex do not necsarily predict a gay or bisexual STIs STI diagnosis was rived om a qutn that asked participants if a doctor, nurse, or other health profsnal had rmed them that they have had a sexually transmted fectn. 8% of femal intified as gay or mostly 1Dcriptive Statistics of variat by sex and sexual orientatn, U.

Femal aged 24–32TotalSample100% HeterosexualMostlyStraight/BisexualMostlyGay/100%GayOp.

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR HEALTH

Three percent of male participants reported a gay or mostly gay inty, of which 55.

Mal aged 24–32Total Sample100% HeterosexualMostlyStraight/BisexualMostlyGay/100%GayMostlyGay/100% GayOp.

HIV NOW FECTS MORE HETEROSEXUAL PEOPLE THAN GAY OR BISEXUAL MEN – WE NEED A NEW STRATEGY

All bisexual and gay intified mal, cludg bisexual mal who did not report same-sex sex, had a higher prevalence of reported anal sex pared to Dispari by Sexual Orientatn Among FemalThe rults om logistic regrsns that regrsed inty-behavr subgroups on self-reported STI diagnosis for femal are shown Table 3. Gay women were signifintly ls likely to report an STI than heterosexual-WSM (OR = 0. Further, Mol 3, the dispary between gay-WMSW and heterosexual-WSM beme larger, such that gay-WMSW (OR = 0.

HIV AND ALL GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN

Consistent wh Mol 3, ntrollg for both victimizatn and sexual behavrs Mol 4 fully mediated the relatnship between heterosexual-WSMW, bisexual-WSM, and bisexual-WSMW, and showed that gay-WSMW (OR = 0. Mol 1, which only ntrolled for socmographic characteristics, showed there was no signifint difference heterosexual-MSMW’s, bisexual-MSW’s, and gay-MSM’s STI risk pared to heterosexual-MSW participants. Moreover, Mol 2, the odds rat for gay-MSMW actually creased, such that gay-MSMW were almost 2.

Total number of partners and anal terurse were both posively associated wh STI diagnosis and fully mediated the relatnship between both bisexual-MSMW and gay-MSMW’ elevated self-reported STI risk pared to heterosexual-MSMW. Mol 4 ntrolled for all factors and showed that only gay-MSMW (OR = 1. For example, pared to heterosexual intified women wh oppose sex only relatnships, STI risks were elevated among heterosexual and bisexual women who reported same-sex sex, but lower among gay intified women wh histori of same-sex sex.

Behavr-based tegori also mischaracterized risk among mal: No signifint difference was tected the likelihood of self-reportg an STI between heterosexual-MSM and heterosexual-MSMW, but elevated risk was tected among gay-MSMW and bisexual-MSMW.

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FemalAmong women, the rults showed that gay-WSMW were ls likely to report an STI than heterosexual-WSM. Sample, however, was llected om a group of women who reported g hero, crack, or e the prev five years, limg the generalizabily of the rults to the gay female populatn the Uned Stat. Some rearch work has suggted that gay or lbian-intified women are ls likely to be tted for STIs and ls likely to get regular pap smears (Aaron et al., 2001; Cochran et al., 2001; Marrazzo, Koutsky, Kiviat, Kuypers, & Ste, 2001), which may, part, expla the lower risk among this group.

Supplementary analys examg STI dispari wh bmarker data on chlamydia and gonorrhea Wave III of the survey, however, showed siar rults to those prented this study: gay women were not more likely to report an STI than heterosexual-WSM women. Other rearch has also found that while the prevalence of specific risk factors may vary by inty, MSM who do not intify as gay or bisexual may not have an elevated STI risk pared to bisexual or gay intified-MSM (Bond et al., 2009; Millet, Malebrange, Mason, & Spik, 2005; Pathela et al., 2006;).

Alternatively, differenc STI ttg may also ntribute to the lack of differenc self-reported STI diagnos by a medil profsnal among heterosexual-MSM as some rearch has suggted that MSM who have not disclosed a gay or bisexual inty are ls likely to be tted for STIs (Wolski et al., 2006) rults showed that STI risk was ncentrated among mal who intified as mostly heterosexual, bisexual, or gay and had a history of both sex partners, but that the relatnship between bisexual-MSMW was mediated by sexual risk behavrs.