Word: gayness
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BALLOT MEASURES: As always, voters will be asked to govern themselves on a range of initiatives, from gay marriage in California to casino limits in Missouri and the legalization of medicinal marijuana in Michigan...
...films know the data so well. One of the researchers behind the film, Mary Ann Chiasson, 58, worked for the New York City Department of Health for nearly 14 years, beginning in June 1986. It was important to her in conceiving the character Josh not to create a gay man who would be an extreme caricature. Josh drinks too much, but he isn't a bug-eyed crystal-meth addict because - despite many lurid news stories - very few gay men who have unsafe sex do so on crystal. Only 6% of at-risk gay men cited in a 2004 study...
...haven't seen anything that so cleverly explores the capacity gay men have for fooling themselves when they want to unwind with sex or substances. The story follows Josh, a 26-year-old gay man who gets drunk a lot, sleeps around, and then faces the stark fear that he is HIV-positive. I won't give away the ending, but it's not that important. The key parts of the movies are those that remind us that even in the antiretroviral era, getting HIV is an enormous medical and psychological burden. "The medications aren't as easy...
Public-health experts are now fighting back with a new online campaign. On June 11, New York University, Public Health Solutions (a New York-based nonprofit) and a filmmaker named Todd Ahlberg launched a website called hivbigdeal.org. It features two online short films designed to remind gay men that - duh - HIV is still deadly, and that we must talk about it in the bedroom, during those awkward moments before sex. The films are called The Morning After and The Test, and I can't stop thinking about them. A disclaimer: while the shorts are smartly directed, they are poorly acted...
Chiasson's research has found some reasons to be hopeful: gay men who meet their sex partners online (as most young gay men do) rather than in bars are significantly less likely to report substance use before sex and significantly more likely to disclose their HIV status before sex. It's easier to ask someone if he is positive when he is just a screen name...