Themes
This campaign isn’t being wound up yet by any means, but nevertheless some of us are in contemplative mood, trying to summarize for ourselves and others what major themes have emerged. In fact I have...
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Pissed off . .
XTRA’s cover story yesterday was about criminalization, a treatment sympathetic to our cause by Sky Gilbert, which (mostly) hits all the right notes, even though he couldn’t resist criticizing at some...
View ArticleNotes from the battlefield
The comments on the XTRA website in response to their front page story on criminalization (see my last post) are all over the map, and sometimes heated. But they’re worth reading by all those...
View ArticlePretty smart?
This site has been so full of discussion about sero-discordant sex that it’s kind of odd that we’ve only talked a little about its opposite. Namely sero-sorting. So that we’re all on the same page,...
View ArticleWhat do gay men really think about criminalization?
If you’ve been following the discussions on this site, I think the links between criminalization and stigma must be pretty clear by now. But we haven’t really looked at who, besides Margaret Wente,...
View ArticlePoking holes . . .
Nicholas Little, an HIV prevention worker from Ottawa, has been a great supporter of this site. And today, not because I’m lazy, but because he says it so well, I’m going to quote, with his permission,...
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Hot monkey sex
I thought as a break from writing about stigma, I would write instead about the experience of blogging on this website. Think doing forty-three posts about HIV stigma has been hard? Truth be told, it...
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Sex lies and videotape
Here’s something for your amusement. It’s a British take on the coming-out process. There are five clips combined; the fourth one in particular is priceless. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fEdyBdx_Ls...
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Sex positive
I just spent three days in Toronto, my old stomping grounds, at the Gay Mens Sexual Health Summit. It was a well attended affair, perhaps 150 or even more - I’m not good at numbers - of the brightest...
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Changing . .
This is my last post here on HIVstigma.com. It’s been a great opportunity for me - and I hope for many guys out there too - to explore an important but rather nebulous topic in some depth. Pinning down...
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