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This advert was produced by GMFA to highlight the fact that you can’t be sure of someone’s HIV status by his looks, his behaviour, the sex he likes or where you meet.

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The column below is worth reprinting in full with a bit of background. recently started to write a regular piece for the Singapore-based gay website Fridae.com.
After three columns he had successfully alienated most of the Singaporean, Asian and Rice Queen Fridae members by writing against the flow on the subject of HIV prevention amongst MSM. In the instalment preceding the one reprinted below, Jan suggested more oral sex and less anal sex as an addition to the panoply of HIV prevention approaches. In no time he was assaulted from …

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“We welcome homosexuals, we don’t want to exclude people, but we want them to repent and be changed”, Dr Michael Nazir-Ali, Bishop of Rochester.
Could someone please switch off the light and close the door of the Rochester Cathedral?
India, the world’s largest democracy decriminalised homosexuality

Stonewall Celebrates 40th birthday
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London Celebrates Pride 2009

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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 …