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Contents:
- THE RELEVANCE OF PRE-EXPOSURE PROPHYLAXIS GAY MEN’S LIV AND THEIR MOTIVATNS TO E : A QUALATIVE STUDY
- A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
- GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
THE RELEVANCE OF PRE-EXPOSURE PROPHYLAXIS GAY MEN’S LIV AND THEIR MOTIVATNS TO E : A QUALATIVE STUDY
HIV has affected gay men disproportnately the U.S. for four s. Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) was veloped as a preventn strategy for dividuals at high risk of HIV fectn. Although highly effective, many gay and other men who have sex wh men ntue not to take PrEP. Rearchers have foced on sexual risk behavrs as the primary termant of who should be on PrEP and intified var objective systemic and societal barriers to PrEP accs. Public health measur have promoted PrEP based on the objective creria. Rearchers have recently begun to quire to subjective and relatnal motivators for PrEP age beyond self-perceived risk. Participants were reced through snowball samplg. Data were llected between Augt and November 2018 om PrEP ers (n = 7) and PrEP non-ers (n = 6). Data were analyzed a modified ground theory qualative analysis. The thirteen participants’ narrativ ntaed three superordate tegori: (1) what ’s like to be someone on PrEP, (2) an environment of changg sexual norms, and (3) the ntued importance of tn. The tegori prised ten them, each of which had var repeatg ias. The ten them were the followg: (1) PrEP’s social acceptabily, (2) PrEP and HIV stigma, (3) PrEP and sexual relatnships, (4) dissatisfactn wh ndoms, (5) negotiatg risk, (6) peace of md, (7) velopg a relatnship wh PrEP, (8) puttg yourself first, (9) PrEP awarens, and (10) PrEP logistics. The gay men our study took to nsiratn their social rol and relatnships, their personal beliefs, and emotnal histori as well as risk as proment motivators for PrEP e. They stated that PrEP e is associated wh their sense of belongg, tst, and secury about their sexualy. They also intified the most relevant aspects of the meditn (e.g., si effects, adherence, and awarens) to their liv. * meal prep gay *
And yet, as a gay man-ish person, I have always found the dners to be an unniably queer space, even if I uldn’t offer the exact reason why. Is the fact that Quenux is gay? That’s an important startg pot, but plenty of events and rtrants n by gay chefs are not necsarily queer.
No flourish of sce mak a dish bisexual, nor do flambe make your duck or ice cream “homosexual”: the are terms applied to people, and on that don’t transfer to food, even if an LGBTQ someone igned that dish.
Jt as the gay bar is only the tip of the queer-nightlife iceberg, the explicly queer food bs is only the most visible aspect of a much larger, often unseen universe of queer food, one that’s been evolvg and shapg Amerin culture for s. I found when out queer woman Angela Dimayuga ran the kchen at New York’s Missn Che, wa staff along the genr spectm slippg my boyiend and me lorful, spicy dish wh a si of flirtatn, a playful nod we associated wh gay bars a few drks , not trendy rtrants.
A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
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Durg sprawlg dners at my own apartment, my clique I ll the “gay bros” ll me the “Barelegged Contsa, ” thanks to my fondns for the Food Network star’s recip, served at a table becked wh seasonal r like dick-o’-lanterns while I waltz through the kchen short shorts. The are all moments where the culary queer manifts as s own type of rabow: It wasn’t jt this or jt that which ma the meal a b gay; was a ltle of everythg, the magic of polil liv lived wh joy. Gay-owned Cupke Royale Seattle is known for their Gay cupke, the sal of which benef Genr Jtice League Washgton.
GAY WATER, A NEW NNED CKTAIL, WANTS TO BE THE ANTI-BUD LIGHT
As rtrants across the untry toss some rabow food lorg to palize on Pri, queer-owned bs make much more meangful donatns — and that activism is part of what mak their rabow cupk gay, and not jt gay for pay, as Eater’s Adam Mosa wr. The rtrant grew to an unlikely cha, born an era when gay bars were vert, closed to outsirs, and absolutely not statns for bachelorette parti.
Hamburger Mary’s is “takg somethg as all-Amerin as a burger but makg gay, ” Wright says. This isn’t acplished merely by servg vegan Beyond Burgers but, stead, by prentg one of Ameri’s most inic foods a cidly gay ntext.
“But there’s drag queens here and there’s trans people and gays, lbians, all lors, all ag. Also, lerally leggy cktail glass, burgers as large as the pecs of the hunky servers that liver them, and a “No Hate” chicken sandwich parodyg a certa homophobic Southern cha: All are a part of Hamburger Mary’s long, hard participatn the queer cultural athetic tradn of mp.