This slide presentation demonstrates the need for HIV prevention efforts to fight homophobia and stigma as a contributing factor to rising HIV rates among gay and bisexual American men. It details the rising rates of HIV and syphilis among men who have se ...
Anonymous (not verified) - 4/10/2018 5:57pm
Using data from three ongoing cohort studies of drug users in Vancouver, Canada, this article relies on a "risk environment" framework—the theory that external factors intersect to produce and reproduce HIV risk and other drug-related harms—to e ...
Anonymous (not verified) - 12/12/2018 4:26pm
This article discusses the criminalization in England of same-sex, sadomasochistic (s and m) behavior. The author also explores how violence and HIV are readily associated with homosexual, but not heterosexual, s and m behavior, as well as the court' ...
Anonymous (not verified) - 6/28/2017 12:46pm
This is an order by the United States District Court – Eastern District of Louisiana granting the plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment. The plaintiffs claimed mandatory sex offender registration under the harsher of Louisiana's two solicitati ...
Anonymous (not verified) - 6/28/2017 12:20pm
The United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued this decision on a discrimination complaint filed with the agency by a transgender woman who claimed that she was denied a job at a crime lab on the basis of her gender identity. The ...
Anonymous (not verified) - 1/6/2018 10:49am
This is a decision by the Kentucky Court of Appeals affirming the circuit court's decision in favor of an HIV-positive employee denied disability retirement benefits. The denial was based in part on the employer deeming the employee's HIV a pre- ...
Anonymous (not verified) - 1/6/2018 10:13am
Psychologist Gregory Herek, a professor at the University of California, Davis, provides definitions and explanations of various ideas and terms related to homophobia and heterosexism, as well as links to several of his articles on the topic. His site als ...
Anonymous (not verified) - 5/8/2013 1:46pm
The paper reviews the current status of HIV and STIs among men who have sex with men (MSM) and argues that a sexual health approach towards MSM relationships may increase understanding of MSM's sexual behavior, reduce HIV and STI infections, and impr ...
Anonymous (not verified) - 5/8/2013 1:46pm
This study examines the validity of the Supreme Court of Canada's claim that criminal prosecution of nondisclosure of HIV status would not undermine HIV prevention. In fact, the study found that "nondisclosure prosecutions likely undermine HIV p ...
Anonymous (not verified) - 10/8/2013 5:30pm
This journal article discusses the origins and progression of HIV/AIDS activism in the United States in the 1980s. The author explains how the stigma and the phenomenon of "social death" (in which people are considered "as good as dead" ...
Anonymous (not verified) - 10/7/2013 4:29pm