Worapoj Petchkhoom who appeared ligthly dressed in Stage modelling magazine.

Thailand has a serious problem of, and with, its image. The recent fighting ban imposed on Muai Thai boxer Worapoj Petchkhoom is the latest example of politics based on, and aiming at, keeping up appearances and reputation at the expense of addressing more fundamental issues. Worapoj was banned from competition for 3 months because he posed lightly dressed for a Thai modeling magazine, Stage, which appeals to many gay readers.  The images were not considered obscene but still “they have tarnished …

In an article for the Pink News, Ramsey Dehani questioned “modern” HIV prevention campaigns asking if they were failing younger generations. Observing that campaigns promoting condom use have more or less disappeared to be replaced by testing campaigns, Dehani noted that many people still die of ignorance and recalled a conversation he had with a 20-year-old gay student who was more concerned about getting gonorrhoea than HIV (statistically speaking, the youg guy in question was rather well informed).
Should HIV prevention campaigns target the blasé attitude of younger generations that have …

“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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To assess the extent of global progress on HIV/AIDS among Men who have Sex with Men (MSM), amfAR reviewed 5 HIV indicators relevant to MSM for 128 UNGASS country progress reports for Latin America, the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, Asia and the Pacific, the Middle East, and Africa.

HIV prevalence amongst MSM

Countries reporting on MSM

Percentage of MSM living with HIV

Percentage of MSM who have used a condom
the last time they had sex

Percentage of MSM who have taken an
HIV test during the last year

Percentage of MSM who know
how to prevent …

In a clear and well argumented post (which title I borrowed) for NOMOREPOTLUCKS, Nicholas Little, an HIV outreach worker in bathhouses, bars and online chat rooms explains how stigma attached to being HIV positive puts HIV negative men at higher risk of HIV infection.
There is not much to add to the article but to emphasise the deep contradiction existing in the mind and attitude of like-to-believe HIV negative men: On the one hand, they naively expect and believe that HIV positive guys will disclose their status before sex, but on …