Activists nmn vlence agast LGBTQ muny St. Vcent, where gay sex is illegal | AP News

Contents:

• GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN'S HEALTH ISSU
• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
• IN POWERFUL REBE OF HATE, JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY G OUT AS GAY
• LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR HEALTH

GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN'S HEALTH ISSU

There are a few optns for gay men and bisexual men same-sex relatnships who aspire to have children, cludg surrogacy, where sperm is ed to fertilize a donated egg, which is then rried to term by a surrogate mother. If you are lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, and/or intify as a sexual and/or genr mory and are lookg for LGBTQ+ affirmg doctors, physicians, clicians, and healthre provirs, you have e to the right place. Many health re and mental health anizatns foced on the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muny also offer substance e treatment or may be able to provi rmatn about lol rourc.

In fact, gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex wh men make up more than half of the people livg wh HIV the Uned Stat and experience two thirds of all new HIV fectns each year.

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

The large percentage of gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex wh men who have HIV and STDs means that, as a group, they have a higher chance of beg exposed to the diseas. CDC’s Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr Health Servic page has rourc that n help you fd health re provirs that are skilled providg health servic to gay and bisexual men.

The human papillomavis (HPV) vacce is also available for gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex wh men up to 26 years of age to prevent genal warts and other HPV-associated diseas and ndns such as oropharyngeal or anal ncer. 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. ”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.

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. ”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.

IN POWERFUL REBE OF HATE, JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN MAK HISTORY G OUT AS GAY

What Kev Maxen has done, g out as gay, makg him what's believed to be the first publicly out male ach major Amerin men’s profsnal sports, is brave enough. In the year 1977, eight years followg the world-renowned Stonewall rts Greenwich Village, New York several gay veterarians met at a dner party durg the Amerin Veterary Medil Associatn (AVMA) nventn Atlanta.

Jeffery Colls and Herman Wtmoreland urageoly placed an ad The Advote, the natnal gay magaze, announcg the first gatherg of the Associatn for Gay Veterarians (AG Vets) to be held Las Vegas durg the 1978 AVMA nventn.

In addn to several genue quiri about the gural gatherg of gay veterarians, there was also a discrete phone ll om a veterarian askg, “Who were the generat who placed this immoral advertisement that magaze?!! Throughout the next , AG Vets beme a regular, rmal group of gay veterarians takg up space and gag regnn a predomantly heterosexual, cisgenr, male-domated, nservative profsn. Durg the 1980s, flyers posted by Stremme announcg gay events for stunt workg were routely torn down, however, this–albe mimal–visibily played an important role the velopment of the early works.

LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR HEALTH

The fledglg veterary work and gay muny veloped by AG Vets would not be able to flee s stctn; many foundg members would succumb to AIDS, while others would go back to the closet to pe profsnal fears and the social stigma associated wh them due to this panmic. At a time when HIV was poorly unrstood and a source of discrimatn, gay veterarians, like gay men everywhere, were aaid of assumptns ncerng their HIV stat and social stigma.

They moled their associatn after the San Francis-based LGBTQIA physician group- Bay Area Physicians for Human Rights (BAPHR) which eventually gave birth to the Natnal Gay and Lbian Medil Associatn (GLMA). But fdg a health re provir who offers those servic is not always easy for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer/qutng, nonbary, or genr-nonnformg (LGBTQ+) dividuals. And when the electronic health system at Columbia was changed last year, a new feature was add to allow patients to choose their pronouns durg registratn and intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, genr-nonnformg, or nonbary, so the rmatn is accsible to all provirs.

AIDS activism by and for people wh AIDS, distct om gay activism rpondg to the threat of AIDS on the behalf of the whole muny, started as a way of ristg the phenomenon of social ath. An anized polil rponse to AIDS began among gay men wh AIDS San Francis, California, and New York, New York, formalized a foundatnal document later lled the Denver Prcipl. 1 People livg wh HIV/AIDS and their alli have created health activist movements, both lol and global, a number of which have persuad ernments and societi to change their rpons to the AIDS global movement emerged origally om the polics of urban gay muni North Ameri the early 1980s.