Lost Decade Gays

It used to be simple: there were the Gay ones and the Rest (though the Rest would have said that “there was us and the Gay guy next door”). But starting at the end of the “sleepy 50s” to climax by the end of the “Glorious 30s” (1945-1975), a sexual revolution had happened and had revealed a world of sexualities.
It was no coincidence that the “Lost Decade” (1980-1990) inaugurated by the abandon of state-led development policies in favour of Neo-liberalism was also the starting point of the tragic …

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A few weeks ago, Steve Weinstein, editor-In-Chief of the Boston-based Edge, commented on “Disco dosing”, the alleged Gay-men practice of taking a cocktail made of a psychostimulant, methamphetamine, an antiretroviral, Tenofovir, and a drug used to treat pulmonary arterial hypertension Viagra, better known for its ability to correct erectile dysfunction, before going clubbing. Such mix even has a name: “MTV”.
Disco dosing has been around for years. It was reported that Gay men were taking the antiretroviral Tenofovir before going on the prowl for the weekend and enjoy unprotected sex, hopping …

Last week’s print edition of The Economist provided an overview of the latest International AIDS conference held in Mexico. If the gloomy picture depicted by the weekly is not completely accurate – in particular when it comes to vaccines and microbicides for which more than 30 trials are still ongoing despite the failure of the Merck vaccine and Carraguard microbicide last year, the magazine provides a good sketch of the fight against HIV and AIDS to date.
Of particular interest is the role that “behaviour change” will play in the new …