How to talk about monkeypox effectively, whout stigmatizg gay men : NPR

MONKEYPOX AND THE GAY COMMUNY
MONKEYPOX: WHAT THE SYMPTOMS ARE AND WHY ’S WRONG TO STIGMATISE GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN
HOW MONKEYPOX SPOILED GAY MEN'S PLANS FOR AN VCIBLE SUMMER
GAY MEN ARE LG UP AS EARLY AS 2 A.M. FOR MONKEYPOX VACC. MANY LEAVE EMPTY-HAND
LETTERS TO THE EDOR: I’M GAY AND DON’T WANT TO PATRONIZE BIGOTS. THANKS, SUPREME COURT
HOW TO TALK ABOUT MONKEYPOX EFFECTIVELY, WHOUT STIGMATIZG GAY MEN

MONKEYPOX AND THE GAY COMMUNY

Gay, bisexual and transgenr muni fear a repeat of the AIDS-era difference that left too many whout re. * gay times monkeypox *

We have viral zoonos that jump om animals to humans all the likely happened this se is that somebody who had monkeypox had a ln and showed up at a gay rave Europe, and spread to those that social and sexual work. Monkeypox has found a foothold — not all gay men — but a certa subset of gay, bisexual and trans men who have been associated wh the parti. ] We have 173 s natnwi, but that’s likely to be the tip of the iceberg bee ’s fairly difficult to get accs to monkeypox ttg, and we’re likely to have substantial spread among this work of gay men wh multiple sexual partners New, you know, people should be like, “OK, should I go out tonight to go dancg a club or go to one of the big L.

So ’s not jt about tg people about managg your dividual risk, ’s alg wh a new outbreak that we uld potentially nta and snuff out before embeds self long term the gay muny. “We absolutely don’t want to stigmatise gay and bisexual men and know the importance of beg proactive guardg agast that, ” said Alex Sparrowhawk, who works as part of the health improvement team at the Terrence Higgs Tst. “But we also know that to date a disproportnate number of monkeypox s are among gay and bisexual men and want to e our expertise to play our role reachg this muny wh the most up-to-date rmatn cludg symptoms and what to do, cludg llg your lol sexual health clic or 111 rather than gog anywhere person if you have symptoms.

Wiener and others pare to the AIDS epimic, which first popped onto the scientific radar wh a paper June 1981 that tailed a rare lung fectn five gay men Los Angel. For many gay and bisexual men, the sprawlg and chaotic monkeypox outbreak has upend a summer that was supposed to be a well-earned opportuny — followg the peak of the Covid crisis — to fally have some fun and revel wh their gay brothers whout the threat of viral fectn hangg over them. But provid how the vis, which giv rise to unsightly lns that some s e excciatg pa, is overwhelmgly spreadg durg sex between men, the outbreak has st a long shadow over the gay muny.

MONKEYPOX: WHAT THE SYMPTOMS ARE AND WHY ’S WRONG TO STIGMATISE GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN

The viral monkeypox outbreak has promised the well-beg of gay and bisexual men, as well as transgenr and queer people. * gay times monkeypox *

People led up outsi of Department of Health & Mental Hygiene clic on June 23, 2022 New Coskun / Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagOver 100 gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer people rpond to an NBC News onle survey seekg to learn about how monkeypox has affected their liv.

HOW MONKEYPOX SPOILED GAY MEN'S PLANS FOR AN VCIBLE SUMMER

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” As a rult, people like Rojas have felt ee to explore and revel sex a way queer people haven’t sce the AIDS epimic brought to a crashg close the sexual eedoms gay men enjoyed durg the, 2020, a new viral plague kept all of society oped up and longg for eedom. Acrdg to the Amerin Men’s Inter Survey, which nducted an onle poll early Augt of 824 gay, bisexual and other men who have sex wh men, 48% reported rcg their number of sexual partners bee of the outbreak, while 50% rced hook-ups and 49% rced partners met on hookup apps or at sex venu.

”“There has always been a sex radil group that has fed gay liberatn as absolute sexual eedom, ” Weste wrote, blamg monkeypox on those another man named Michael, who like some people terviewed preferred to go only by his first name to shield his privacy, protectg himself agast monkeypox by sacrificg the very sexual eedoms that Weste stigat has e, he said, at a great st.

Michael BenabibJohn Pachankis, a psychologist at the Yale School of Public Health, noted how for the past two s, queer advocy anizatns have phed “a narrative that gay people are jt like everyone else” a succsful effort to secure many civil rights protectns. He spoke to the nflict that members of this muny now face when the particulars of gay sex lie at the heart of the monkeypox outbreak and, as durg the AIDS crisis, have bee fodr for tense public bate.

GAY MEN ARE LG UP AS EARLY AS 2 A.M. FOR MONKEYPOX VACC. MANY LEAVE EMPTY-HAND

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S., “the last thg that you want to do is disnfirm that narrative — even if the picture is a ltle more nuanced, even if gay people do live distct liv om straight people, even if they exprs their sexualy more creatively, some might say more thentilly.

“We saw monkeypox start wh more affluent whe gay men, and then eventually seeped to more diverse works, and that clus men of lor, ” said Gregor Millett, the director of public policy at amfAR, The Foundatn for AIDS Rearch.

LETTERS TO THE EDOR: I’M GAY AND DON’T WANT TO PATRONIZE BIGOTS. THANKS, SUPREME COURT

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“For Black gay men, the last thg you need is to add a whole other discsn where you bee this Black vector of disease, ” he vis, one sense of fearFor some GBTQ people, fears of ntagn stilled durg the height of the Covid panmic have primed further anxieti about monkeypox. Ben Rosen is a psychotherapist at the LGBTQ-foced Harlem Uned New UnkrichSuch hance om fay members, said Ben Rosen, a psychotherapist at Harlem Uned New York, parallels the ld shoulr many gay men got durg the early AIDS crisis, “where people are beg told, ‘Oh maybe you shouldn’t e vis. But some advot say the perceived lack of ernmental urgency addrsg a public health crisis that impacts queer muni today mirrors what gay men were experiencg s ago.

Between October 1980 and May 1981, five young men om across Los Angel – scribed by the US Centers for Disease Control and Preventn at the time as “active homosexuals” – were diagnosed wh an unual lung fectn and two of them died.

That stemmed om the perceptn of AIDS as a “gay plague” – a ndn thought to be tied to the liftyl and behavrs of gay men – even though s had also been reported women, fants, those wh hemophilia and people who jected dgs.