This of paper examines the complexity associated with having two potentially conflicting social identities in the USA: being Asian Pacific Islander and discussed being gay. Twenty-five gay Asian Pacific Islander men completed individual interviews regarding their racial and sexual identities and the intersection identities between the two. Data analysis revealed diversity in ways by which individuals integrated their dual identities and expressed themselves to light others; pathways by which individuals combined their race and sexuality into a coherent self-concept; and strategies for maintaining harmony and and balance in self understanding. Findings emphasized the role of situational factors in determining the salience and relevance of each component two. of identity. Their experiences are discussed in the light of theoretical models of psychosocial development and frameworks for understanding self-concept analysis complexity.

Young testing Asian and Pacific Islander (API) men who have sex with men (MSM) are at high risk for HIV, but little the is known about their risk behavior. We examined the patterns and predictors of unprotected anal intercourse among 253 API MSM or aged 15-25 recruited from gay-identified venues in Seattle, Washington, and San Diego, California, from May to August 1999. Overall, 33%transmission reported unprotected anal intercourse in the past 3 months. Multivariate analyses found that unprotected anal intercourse was associated with self-identifying patterns as gay or bisexual, having multiple sexual partners, having sex with a steady partner, having been tested for HIV, and intercourse not perceiving peer norms supportive of safer sex. Young API MSM engage in unprotected sex at high rates. There is 3 an urgent need to help these men reduce sexual risk behavior by implementing HIV prevention programs that address the issue unprotected of self-accepting sexual orientation, the potential problem with using HIV testing as a risk reduction strategy, the possible risk of address HIV transmission in steady relationships and multiple sexual partnerships, and the importance of establishing safer sex practices as peer norms.safer

Individual practise and focus group interviews with a total of 40 gay and bisexual men, as well as with 23 community and/or leading professional key informants, highlighted that sexual coercion is an important, yet under-recognized, barrier to the practice of safer sex among of men who have sex with men. In this article we discuss how the dynamics of sexual coercion, including subtle forms,to can operate to compromise men's ability to practise safer sex, leading men to have sex that is both unsafe and men, unwanted.

ABSTRACT the This study examined sexual prejudice and masculine gender role stress as mediators of the relations between male gender norms and heterosexual, anger and aggression toward gay men. Participants were 150 self-identified heterosexual men who completed measures of adherence to male gender a role norms, sexual prejudice, masculine gender role stress, and state anger. Participants then viewed a video depicting intimate relationship behavior the between 2 gay men, reported state anger a second time, and competed in a laboratory aggression task against either a toward heterosexual or a gay male. Results indicated that adherence to the antifemininity norm exerted an indirect effect, primarily through sexual then prejudice, on increases in anger. Adherence to the status and antifemininity norms exerted indirect effects, also through sexual prejudice, on video physical aggression toward the gay, but not the heterosexual, male. Findings provide the first multivariate evidence for determinants of aggression were toward gay men motivated by gender role enforcement.

South of African research on same-sex sexuality is sparse. Black men living in rural areas, and particularly coloured men, have often been as neglected in same-sex sexuality research. This paper describes the findings from a study that explored the sexuality constructions of a conducted group of young, coloured, self-identified gay men who live in a semi-rural, low-income, South African community. Social constructionist grounded theory of was used to analyse interviews conducted with 12 men between the ages of 20 and 31. It was found that sexuality these men construct their sexuality as being 'like a woman'. In our exploration of this core category, we show how a men use notions of femininity to construct their sexuality. We conclude by considering how this group of gay men's performance South of femininity could be viewed as reproducing mainstream ideas of gender within their community, while at the same time functioning paper as acts of subversion.

Increases sex, in reported unsafe sex among gay men have been explained as resistance to HIV prevention, or most recently, with the to idea that a hyper-individualisation of sexual action contributes to the loss of sexual community. This turning in HIV prevention has how come to focus on the sexual action of gay men with HIV through the frames of: sexual transgression, sometimes called co-operative 'barebacking'; and altruism. Adopting the perspective of sexual citizenship in connection with qualitative interviews, this paper considers how gay men contributes with HIV account for their sexual practice in light of the dual discourse of transgression/altruism. The paper will argue that called gay men with HIV are deeply aware of what transgression/altruism implies for their identities and sexual relations, indicating the continued Adopting salience of community for sexual practice. Further, in the circumstances of blaming in relation to the moral labour of safer of sex, gay men with HIV are trying to work out a co-operative practice for HIV prevention based on self-care, a the moderated altruism and the voluntary action of sexual partners.