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HOW GAY MEN SAVED US FROM MPOX
5 ln fe agast the Temecula Valley Unified School District ls than a day after nservative board members voted to reject a state-endorsed curriculum that clus a short bgraphy of gay rights lear Harvey Milk. Komrosky, the board print, has lled Milk a "pedophile, " while dozens of atten, many om outsi the school district, livered impassned speech agast teachg anythg that refers to sex or homosexualy to elementary school-age stunts.
Half-naked gay men stood wh their pants around their ankl while clicians crouched between their legs, swabs at the ready. In early May of 2022, mpox found s way to gay rav Spa and Belgium, huge annual parti that draw men om all over the world. So this outbreak that started gay and bisexual muni mostly stayed those muni, but not for long.
Both health officials and the media failed to expedly warn and engage the gay muny the outbreak’s ccial first the first s were reported among gay and bisexual men the Wt, health thori and the media uldn’t brg themselv to say the word “gay. ” To avoid stigmatizg gay and bisexual men, early reports buried the lead. The Associated Prs didn’t mentn that this outbreak was beg seen almost exclively gay men until 15 paragraphs to one report; other reports didn’t mentn gay and bisexual men at all.
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A gay man snng headl May of last year might have learned of an outbreak — but unls he had traveled to Wt Ai recently, or had ntact wh fected ronts or primat, he uld have easily nclud that he wasn’t at this sire to avoid stigmatizg gay and bisexual men was unrstandable, wasn’t helpful. We know gay sex has been unfairly blamed for everythg om natural disasters to the fall of Rome.
But their efforts to avoid stigmatizg the muny, health thori and the media failed to effectively warn gay and bisexual men. Ignorant of the threat as the vis spread, gay and bisexual men uldn’t take steps to protect themselv and their partners. Gay men wh mpox were turned away om urgent re clics and emergency rooms.