First NYC Nurse Reported to Die of COVID-19 Is a Gay Man

Contents:

• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
• CDC RELEAS REPORT CONFIRMG LBIAN, GAY AND BISEXUAL PEOPLE AT GREATER RISK OF COVID-19 ILLNS, CALLS FOR MORE DATA COLLECTN
• AN ICU NURSE'S ACCEPTANCE TO A CHRISTIAN UNIVERSY WAS REVOKED BEE HE'S GAY
• GAY, LBIAN AND BISEXUAL ADULTS AT GREATER RISK OM COVID-19
• GAY AND LBIAN ADULTS HAD HIGHER COVID-19 VACCATN RAT THAN HETEROSEXUAL ADULTS: CDC
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
• MASK MANDAT RETURN; GAY MEN ADVISED FEWER PARTNERS; BURSTG TRAVEL NURSE BUBBLE

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

A gay nurse who attend the LGBTQ Task Force's Wter Party has been hospalized for Schultz -- a nurse at San Francis's California Pacific Medil Center -- had attend the fundraiser, whose events ran March 4 to 10, wh his boyiend, Joshua Hebblethwae, a DJ at the ftivi. His story was told on CNN, NBC News and Fox, nearly a year after he was first hospalized wh COVID-19, Schultz has emerged as the fol pot of a massive brouhaha wh the gay muny — turmoil that is a microsm of the divergg ways Amerins have handled the panmic amid a drastic, punishg uptick s and the weaponizatn of social media, for better or worse, holdg acuntable people unwillg to adhere to COVID-19 mandat and regulatns. AdvertisementArticle ntu below this adIn a matter of months, the Instagram acunt @gaysovervid has bee the primary csar agast the (mostly) whe, f gay men who chewed tablished safety polici to attend large celebratns hom and nightclubs here and abroad.

@gaysovervid was started by an anonymo gay man his late 20s and began as a space, he explaed a rare terview, for people reluctant to shame their iends one-on-one to ligate their behavr "a public fom. @gaysovervid and s army of supporters went to work, nmng dividuals who posted themselv the area for the circu party — as well as rallyg agast the anizers who enabled the mass ngregatn the first place. Acrdg to Instct Magaze and SFist, he posted a screengrab of another person’s Instagram story on New Year’s Eve seemgly opposn to the llouts popularized by @gaysovervid.

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

“You f—g bter queens … always tearg down other gays! ”Schultz, was revealed, was part of a untermovement origatg om a Facebook group named that emerged opposn to @gaysovervid. They went on to brand themselv as #gaysoverkarens.

CDC RELEAS REPORT CONFIRMG LBIAN, GAY AND BISEXUAL PEOPLE AT GREATER RISK OF COVID-19 ILLNS, CALLS FOR MORE DATA COLLECTN

AdvertisementArticle ntu below this ad"For so long they have been hidg behd the screen tryg to out fellow gays, makg our muny as divisive as ever, " the post by Lan Vu read. ”And while Whe acknowledg acunts like @gaysovervid as "a safe way to ll out whout riskg terpersonal nflict" and shar the tratn of people brazenly fyg COVID-19 l, she warns that "likely risks the oppose effect.

AdvertisementArticle ntu below this adShe also exprsed ncern that the acunt "has this flair of puttg the gay muny (exclively) at flt" spe the fact that the people featured make up only a very small subsectn of the gay muny. (Some of the people who trekked to Puerto Vallarta spe onle cricism end up on a gay party cise that psized. A San Francis nurse who posted photos of himself last May as a warng to others about how COVID-19 had ravaged his body over the urse of six weeks the hospal has attracted negative attentn after apparently postg onle about attendg a gay circu event Mexi over the New Year's Eve holiday.

43-year-old registered nurse Mike Schultz ma natnal headl after postg before and after photos of himself — one, he's well-mcled and tan, the picture of the f type of gay man who equents annual dance events around the world known as circu parti; the other, followg six weeks of beg sedated and on a ventilator at a hospal Boston, he's gnt and much thner, havg lost 50 pounds, and he said he was so weak he uld barely stand to take the mirror selfie.

AN ICU NURSE'S ACCEPTANCE TO A CHRISTIAN UNIVERSY WAS REVOKED BEE HE'S GAY

Schultz was one of at least 38 gay men believed to have ntracted COVID-19 at one of the last circu parti to occur before the panmic prompted worldwi lockdowns and the ncellatn of most travel.

But given the fact that COVID s were already beg wily reported by the time the Wter Party Ftival occurred, anizers were lled out the gay media pecially for not ncelg the event — and Miami Beach Cy Manager Jimmy Moral later told the Miami Herald, after several aths were lked to the party, that he wished he had cid to shut down the event week, LGBTQ social media l up wh a sndal volvg an Instagram acunt lled @GaysOverCovid, which for weeks had been repostg other people's photos and stori and shamg gay men who appeared to be ntug to gather large groups, mostly maskls, spe surgg ronavis s California and elsewhere. Los Angel-based promoter Jefey Sanker, the founr of the Whe Party Palm Sprgs, went ahead wh the event after sellg thoands of tickets, relotg to the nearby muny of Nuevo Vallarta, and @gaysovervid went about shamg Eventbre for ntug to sell tickets to the weekend's events, and shamg var atten who posted photos of themselv Mexi — cludg this ICU nurse om Los Angel, and others.

GAY, LBIAN AND BISEXUAL ADULTS AT GREATER RISK OM COVID-19

Subsequently, a $500 reward was offered for anyone who uld "out" the person or persons behd the GaysOverCovid party — and a schan moment which a cktail cise boat rryg some atten psized on Friday — prompted wi-rangg discsns and bat about whether onle shamg was appropriate when many of have taken migated risks to celebrate holidays and pe the isolatn that ne months of the panmic has brought on.

His Instagram acunt, @thebeard_nurse, has been private sce last May, bee he said he was the victim of cyberbullyg at the Ford, the prs secretary for Alliance for Jtice and a self-scribed queer social jtice warrr, posted a thread to Twter over the weekend about the Puerto Vallarta party/GaysOverCovid sndal. He specifilly mentned Schultz, sayg, "Dpe his stirrg narrative about why we should take COVID serly, Schultz apparently not only went to the PV party, but endorsed that was 'survival of the ftt, ' and is now tryg to help out GaysOverCovid. " The gay blog CocktailsandCockTalk subsequently posted about Schultz and the Puerto Vallarta party, sayg, "And that’s the thg wh the personaly typ; as much as they dislike beg 'ncelled', they like the attentn even more.

"Dpe his stirrg narrative about why we should take COVID serly, Schultz apparently not only went to the PV party, but endorsed that was "survival of the ftt, " and is now tryg to help out GaysOverCovid: 18/x— Zack Ford (@ZackFord) January 3, 2021 Hey @SutterHealth, this is a nurse named Mike Schultz at your CPMC hospal San Francis. #gaysovervid Chris Weidner (@CWNewser) January 4, 2021 We n't nfirm whether Schultz actually end up attendg the party, but Instct Magaze noted that he was apparently back at a circu event somewhere jt a month after leavg the hospal last May. "Kelly "showed up wh a rabow p and a lm, rg manner and ma thgs happen for the young man -- gettg him pa relief and pullg him back om the brk of wantg to take his own life, " Humm wrote a remembrance for Gay Cy News, a weekly NYC paper.

GAY AND LBIAN ADULTS HAD HIGHER COVID-19 VACCATN RAT THAN HETEROSEXUAL ADULTS: CDC

""Today I'm mourng K Jordan Kelly, a 48-year old gay nurse manager who died om rg, " Humm nclud. Michael Sam beme the first openly gay player to be drafted when the then-St. Vcent and the Grenad, where gay sex is still homelsns to ongog physil and verbal abe, the gay muny the small natn of some 100, 000 people says is unr nstant threat.

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

While rarely voked, the rights group and a lol activist said the laws help legimize hostily and abe agast gay people. ”In July 2019, two gay men om St.

Vcent who are livg abroad filed a se to challenge lol laws crimalizg gay sex that activists say should be stck down.

”Human Rights Watch terviewed more than 20 members of the island’s LGBTQ muny who shared their stori but were not intified to protect them, notg that lol police are often openly discrimatory toward gay people who seek help.

MASK MANDAT RETURN; GAY MEN ADVISED FEWER PARTNERS; BURSTG TRAVEL NURSE BUBBLE

One gay man relled how his classmat beat him and broke his arm. Several reported that their fai are homophobic and physilly and verbally abed them, g them to bee homels and promptg some to nsir suici. Many also stggle to fd jobs amid a high unemployment rate and said they face discrimatn, cludg a 19-year-old gay man who said he has rorted to beggg: “Sometim I am so hungry.

It is hard for me as a gay this untry. ”Six English-speakg natns the Caribbean still crimalize gay sex, cludg Domi, Jamai, Guyana, Grenada and St. Gonsalv prevly noted there’s been a history of discrimatn agast gay people.

That kd of irratnal homophobia is entirely unacceptable. ”González wh Human Rights Watch noted that 2019, the ernment held a workshop for public employe on the importance of rpectg gay rights, a rare move for a nservative Caribbean natn. ”Sheryl Gay Stolberg is a Washgton Corrponnt verg health policy.