Two interesting articles from GayStarNews: The gay community has to get over its unhealthy addiction to drugs. What has gay culture become if men are choosing to become infected with HIV? Isn’t it odd that after all this “liberation” we seem to have far more problems, unhappiness and damaging behaviour in the gay “community” than… Read More »
Just over ten years ago one of the key figures in “gay health” in the UK appeared in a BBC documentary. The charitable organisation he worked for had produced a poster and the reporter asked why there was no mention of condoms. The man (who is openly HIV+ himself) defended the omission. He went on… Read More »
The Terence Higgins Trust (THT) safer sex leaflet “Hick from the Sticks” dates from around 1993. In it, new arrival to the city Simon has lots of sex and wonders to himself “I always use condoms, but am I really safe?” Simon meets Paul, a decent guy who tells him he is HIV+. “Any of… Read More »
The case of Daryll Rowe, the 27-year-old hairdresser who has been convicted of deliberately infecting men with HIV, shows how effective condoms are when used properly and how infectious someone can be when not on treatment. Rowe moved to Brighton shortly after being diagnosed with HIV in April 2015. He stopped turning up for health… Read More »
A favourite hobby horse of the bareback promoting gay (ill) health organisations is that for the past 30 years gay men have been unable to have great sex due to the spectre of HIV. We are all suffering from the fear and anxiety of sex and the condom is a cruel triggering reminder of a… Read More »
You will no doubt have read the latest campaign that simply states gay men who have HIV but have an undetectable viral load “cannot pass it on” and it is untransmittable if they have sex with a HIV negative partner. The gay (ill) health organisations deal in absolutes, is this definitive statement putting HIV negative… Read More »
Twenty-five years ago, Gay Men Fighting AIDS (GMFA) was a worthwhile organisation. Its stylish ads promoting condom use would pop up on Channel 4 in the middle of the gay current affairs series “Out”. About twenty years ago the charity began to change. Despite being just a few percent of the UK gay male population,… Read More »
If someone takes PrEP when they are already HIV+ but don’t know that they’re infected, this can create a hard to treat, drug resistant strain of HIV. We said that encouraging gay men in the UK to obtain and use PrEP through websites was a dangerous and stupid strategy for that reason. The survey carried… Read More »
A favourite hobby horse for the gay (ill)health organisations and their gay media cronies is that we shouldn’t be “judgmental.” In this article we’re going to explain why falling for that could seriously mess up your life and put you in danger. We’re going to give you some advice which the gay organisations and media… Read More »
In 1983 some of us watched a Horizon programme on BBC2. Called “Killer In the Village“, it was about a mysterious illness that was killing gay men in New York and San Francisco. To some of us in the UK it was apparent immediately that, whatever this was, it was unlikely to stay only in… Read More »