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Contents:

• HOMOSEXUAL/GAY PREPPERS
• PREP FOR GAY MEN 101: EVERYTHG GAY MEN NEED TO KNOW ABOUT TAKG HIV PREVENTN MEDITN!
• IS PREP JT FOR GAY MEN?
• ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER
• PREP UPTAKE AS A SOCIAL MOVEMENT AMONG GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN
• GAY SOCIAL AND SEXUAL NORMS ARE SHIFTG THE PREP ERA
• PREP E JUMPS TO 35 PERCENT AMONG GAY AND BI MEN AT RISK OF HIV
• PREP ENABL GAY AND BI MEN TO CONNECT ACROSS HIV STAT
• SOME GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN SEE PREP AS A 'SOCIAL PROBLEM'
• PREFERENC FOR CURRENT AND FUTURE PREP MODALI AMONG PREP-EXPERIENCED GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN ATRALIA
• WHAT HAPPENS WHEN GAYS JO RIGHT-WG SURVIVALISTS?
• THE INFLUENCE OF PEERS ON PREP PERCEPTNS AND USE AMONG YOUNG BLACK GAY, BISEXUAL, AND OTHER MEN WHO HAVE SEX WH MEN: A QUALATIVE EXAMATN

HOMOSEXUAL/GAY PREPPERS

I'm not suatg anythg here, and as a new guy on the fom, don't want to get kicked off of here, But, What were you dog on a gay web se? Duh, gay folks n not alone procreate so unls gay femal beg, borrow, buy or steal sperm om a male, and go the turkey baster route,.....

Fai and trib n tolerate gays if they are otherwise eful to the fay or the tribe, but mass pairg up same sex pairs, regardls of your urg or your ner alter genr. I gus a survival suatn gays would have to nsir actg as beg bi-sexual for the purpose of nceptn by providg their womb or seed, no matter how distasteful the act or sacrifice might be for them.. I have known of gay's, women and men, who where very nice people and did not ph their life style and they prep.

PREP FOR GAY MEN 101: EVERYTHG GAY MEN NEED TO KNOW ABOUT TAKG HIV PREVENTN MEDITN!

That is a great post @tacmotn that do add another aspect of the liftyle (gay) that one needs to nsir a survival suatn. I fd tertg that the nservativ are labeled as hatg gays bee they are Christians, yet Christiany teach tolerance. I worked wh 2 gays when I was workg as a salman, my liberal 20's, 1 of them was the nict person I knew, the other one was a flamer wh a chip!

IS PREP JT FOR GAY MEN?

It was a perd of uncertaty as healthre provirs stggled to make sense of the disease that was ravagg the gay muny. The gay muny, which was already spised and margalized for the way s members chose to live and love, was an easy victim.

ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER

The disease was at that pot lled GIRD (Gay-Related Immunoficiency) and everyone assumed was a punishment flicted upon gay people for livg like generat.

Even healthre profsnals discrimated agast gay men fected wh the vis, and only a handful of them took those sufferg om and sought to, at the very least, make their last days fortable.

While many believe that HIV/AIDS surfaced 1981 wh cisgenr gay men who lived urban Amerin ci like New York Cy and San Francis, rearch has shown otherwise. The vis killed more than 120 gay men by 1981, and scientists labeled the disease “GRID” (Gay-Related Immune Deficiency).

PREP UPTAKE AS A SOCIAL MOVEMENT AMONG GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN

Nearly 70% of people livg wh HIV are homosexual and bisexual men – and thankfully the e of PrEP for HIV preventn is creasg among this group. However, only 35% of gay and bisexual mal who were at high-risk of HIV transmissn were takg the meditn.

GAY SOCIAL AND SEXUAL NORMS ARE SHIFTG THE PREP ERA

While takg PrEP should not by any means ter you om g a ndom durg terurse, n actually be que empowerg for homosexual men who prefer to bottom durg terurse.

PREP E JUMPS TO 35 PERCENT AMONG GAY AND BI MEN AT RISK OF HIV

PrEP n also help to remove some of the anxiety that is experienced durg sexual terurse, as gay and bisexual men are often fearful of transmissn – particularly if a ndom is not worn or if breaks.

Historil volvement AIDS activism may reveal important ways of mobilisg gay and bisexual men to crease PrEP uptake. Informed by a nstctivist ground theory approach, we asssed ways which gay and bisexual men's relatnal experienc ncerng PrEP were ngent wh featur of past AIDS activism. Fdgs suggt that the ways which gay and bisexual men munite about PrEP wh peers are nsistent wh featur of AIDS activism.

PREP ENABL GAY AND BI MEN TO CONNECT ACROSS HIV STAT

However, elements of PrEP stigma mt be addrsed to engage wh the wi-rangg HIV preventn needs of gay and bisexual men. Explorg young Black gay, bisexual and other men who have sex wh men's PrEP knowledge Toronto, Ontar, Canada.

'It's jt an exce to slut around': gay and bisexual mens' nstctns of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) as a social problem. Stigma, medil mistst, and perceived racism may affect PrEP awarens and uptake black pared to whe gay and bisexual men Jackson, Mississippi and Boston, Massachetts. While st remas the biggt barrier to accsg PrEP for gay and bisexual men Canada, they also felt prsure to take PrEP and have sex whout ndoms, wh younger men tendg to feel ls anx about HIV transmissn.

SOME GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN SEE PREP AS A 'SOCIAL PROBLEM'

Certa provcial health surance plans, cludg Brish Columbia’s, fully ver PrEP for gay and bisexual men who meet the guil. Dr Mark Gaspar om the Universy of Toronto aimed to better unrstand PrEP-cisn makg among HIV-negative gay, bisexual and queer men. For some participants, this had a distct racial element to , wh PrEP beg seen as somethg associated wh Whe gay men.

This associatn meant that some Black gay men would not take unls other men they knew were takg , or they uld risk beg seen to ter to the whims of Whe men. For them, was eher not seen as necsary to ensure sexual safety, or was viewed as a way for pharmactil pani to make a prof om the sex liv of gay men. “The more healthre provirs and health promotn experts are able to unrstand the shifts sexualy, the better equipped they will be at producg tn, solicg qutns, and refg their msag to clients to ensure that gay, bisexual and queer men are makg rmed choic about PrEP that effectively rce their risks.

PREFERENC FOR CURRENT AND FUTURE PREP MODALI AMONG PREP-EXPERIENCED GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN ATRALIA

CDC Statement on IPERGAY Trial of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV Preventn among Men Who Have Sex wh Men. Today at the Conference on Retrovis and Opportunistic Infectns (CROI), the French natnal HIV rearch agency ANRS announced rults of the IPERGAY trial, which examed a novel dosg strategy for pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, among men who have sex wh men (MSM).

The IPERGAY rults provi the first evince that an event-driven regimen was effective among high-risk MSM wh equent sex (median of ten sex acts per month and eight partners every two months). IPERGAY was a randomized, placebo-ntrolled study that began Febary 2012 and was stopped by an pennt data safety review board October 2014 bee of high efficy. Instead of a daily pill, as prev PrEP studi, participants the IPERGAY study were stcted to take pills three days around the time of sex.

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN GAYS JO RIGHT-WG SURVIVALISTS?

“CDC wel the fdgs prented today by the IPERGAY and PROUD teams, which provi addnal evince of the power of PrEP to rce the risk of HIV fectn. The IPERGAY trial provis the first evince that an event-driven regimen is effective among high-risk MSM wh equent sex. IPERGAY fdgs bed wh other recent rearch suggts that even wh ls than perfect daily adherence, PrEP may still offer substantial protectn if taken nsistently.

We appld ongog efforts like IPERGAY to intify PrEP dosg strategi that may be more acceptable than oral daily dosg for some dividuals at risk, and uld potentially lower sts. Thirty-five percent of gay and bisexual men at high risk of HIV fectn were g PrEP, or pre-exposure prophylaxis, the daily pill that prevents HIV fectn, 2017, acrdg to data released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Preventn.

However, spe the nearly 500 percent jump PrEP e among men who have sex wh men, the CDC not “PrEP e remas too low, pecially among gay and bisexual men of lor. More than 40 percent of whe gay and bisexual men at high risk of HIV ed PrEP 2017, while only 30 percent of their Lato unterparts and 26 percent of their Ain-Amerin unterparts did so. The updated data highlights the fact that mori accs PrEP at lower rat than wh, spe beg at higher risk of HIV data also found high awarens of PrEP, which is also known by s brand name, Tvada, among all gay and bi men: Eighty-six percent of Ain-Amerins know about , as do 87 percent of Latos and 95 percent of wh.

THE INFLUENCE OF PEERS ON PREP PERCEPTNS AND USE AMONG YOUNG BLACK GAY, BISEXUAL, AND OTHER MEN WHO HAVE SEX WH MEN: A QUALATIVE EXAMATN

“Of the timated one ln Amerins at substantial risk for HIV and who uld benef om PrEP, fewer than 10 percent are actually g this meditn, ” the CDC noted, referrg to low uptake overall among heterosexual and jectn-dg-g populatns that are also at high risk of HIV CDC said is fundg ernment and private health anizatns’ efforts to spread awarens of PrEP, and “velopg new ways to nnect gay and bisexual men of lor and transgenr people to PrEP. PrEP n be prcribed as Tvada or Dvy for gay and bisexual men, heterosexual men and women, for trans+ and genr nonnformg folks.

Serosortg is alive and well among gay and bisexual men livg wh HIV, acrdg to a study published the journal AIDS and Behavr. The fdgs support what some gay and bi men have reported anecdotally: Accs to PrEP and new rmatn about how well HIV treatment not only ntrols the vis but also prevents onward transmissn are openg nversatns about sex and timacy between HIV-posive and HIV-negative men.

Steven Goodre, PhD, of the Universy of Washgton Seattle, and lleagu ed data om the web-based ART study, which gathered data on HIV stat, datg, serosortg, PrEP e and viral supprsn om 4, 512 gay and bisexual men durg 2017 and 2018.