Gay and Lesbian
Correlates of Heterosexual Anal Intercourse Among Substance-Using Club-Goers.
Correlates of Heterosexual Anal Intercourse Among Substance-Using Club-Goers. -
Correlates of Heterosexual Anal Intercourse Among Substance-Using Club-Goers.
Arch Sex Behav. 2010 Mar 9;
Authors: Ibañez GE, Kurtz SP, Surratt HL, Inciardi JA
Target black HIV rates
The numbers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention should be a wake-up call. As many as 41% of young, black men in Milwaukee County who have sex with men are infected with HIV.
The numbers should cause community leaders to step up to renew awareness about the high risks of contracting HIV. It's also time for churches - pillars in the black community - to break their relative silence on the issue, though black churches have been on board more now than in the past on this issue.
Senators urge allowing men who have sex with men who don’t actually have sex with men to donate blood
A group of 18 U.S. senators has requested that the Food and Drug Administration change the policy forbidding gay men from donating blood.
The change would not suddenly allow all gay men to donate blood, however. The proposed policy would only allow gay men and other men who have sex with men to donate if they had not had sex with another man for over a year.
The policy was put in place in 1983 when it became clear that blood transfusions were transmitting whatever was causing AIDS. The ban includes any man who has had sex with another man since 1977.
Harper slams Uganda's anti-gay bill
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago — An anti-gay bill in Uganda that proposes the death penalty and long prison sentences for homosexual acts is deplorable, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Sunday.
Harper told reporters he met privately with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni during the Commonwealth leaders' summit to express "Canada's deep concern and strong opposition to the bill."
"We deplore these kinds of measures," said Harper. "We find them inconsistent with any reasonable understanding of human rights."
Senators Ask FDA to Rethink Ban on Gay Men Blood Donation
A group of US Senators led by Senator John Kerry, is urging the Food and Drug Administration to lift the ban preventing gay men from donating blood. The ban was put into place at the height of the HIV scare at a time when the disease was not well understood and the technology to detect HIV in donated blood was just not reliable. The thought behind the ban was that even though donated blood and blood donors are tested, those people who are infected but have yet to develop HIV antibodies could get by the screening system allowing HIV contaminated blood to enter the national blood supply.
