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This paper enquires into the nexus of migration with sexual health among gay Latino migrants in Canada. Interviews with 25 Spanish-speaking interviewees are examined in light of models developed from studies of Latinos in the United States. Canadian immigration policy appears to result in a somewhat different selection of immigrants compared to the United States. Migrants come from a wide range of national and regional backgrounds intersected by race, generation, and social class that influence their perceptions of and adjustment to Canadian society. Pre-migration HIV knowledge varied strongly by generation with older men recalling public panic concerning HIV and younger men receiving formal education about it. Migration enters into the mix of conditions as kin ties can be less confidently relied on among gay men compared to their heterosexual counterparts and by exacerbating vulnerability among those seeking to develop new social and sexual networks. Keywords: Latino, men who have sex with men; gay men; migration, sexual health; HIV risk; Canada Resume. Cet article examine le lien entre la migration et la sante sexuelle, chez les migrants gais latinos au Canada. Des entrevues avec 25 repondants hispanophones sont examinees a l'aide de modeles developpes dans le cadre de recherches realisees aux Etats-Unis au sujet des Latinos. Les politiques canadiennes en matiere d'immigration semblent aboutir a une selection d'immigrants qui differe de celle des Etats-Unis. Les migrants presentent une grande variete d'origines nationales et regionales, croisees des facteurs de race, de generation et de classe sociale qui influencent leurs perceptions de la societe canadienne et leur adaptation a celle-ci. La connaissance du VIH avant la migration varie fortement selon la generation : les hommes plus ages se souviennent de la panique publique au sujet du VIH, alors que les plus jeunes ont recu une education formelle concernant le VIH. La migration vient s'ajouter a la mosaique de facteurs en cause, notamment parce que les connexions a la parente ne constituent pas une option de soutien aussi fiable pour les hommes gais que pour leurs homologues heterosexuels, et egalement en raison de l'exacerbation de la vulnerabilite parmi ceux qui cherchent a developper de nouveaux reseaux sociaux et sexuels. Mots cles: Le latin, les hommes qui ont des rapports sexuels avec des hommes; les hommes gais; Migration, sante sexuelle; Risque de VIH; Canada, Introduction For almost two decades, researchers in the United States have been inquiring into the sexual health of Latino gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men, largely [...]

Drawing on 24 interviews conducted with gay, bisexual, queer and other men who have sex with men (GBM) living in Toronto, Canada, we examined how they are making sense of the relationship between their mental health and substance use. We draw from the literature on the biopolitics of substance use to document how GBM self-regulate and use alcohol and other drugs (AODC) as technologies of the self. Despite cultural understandings of substance use as integral to GBM communities and subjectivity, GBM can be ambivalent about their AODC. Participants discussed taking substances positively as a therapeutic mental health aid and negatively as being corrosive to their mental wellbeing. A fine line was communicated between substance use being selfproductive or self-destructive. Some discussed having made 'problematic' or 'unhealthy' drug-taking decisions, while others presented themselves as self-controlled, responsible neoliberal actors doing 'what a normal gay man would do'. This ambivalence is related to the polarizing binary community and scientific discourses on substances (i.e. addiction/healthy use, irrational/rational, uncontrolled/controlled). Our findings add to the critical drug literature by demonstrating how reifying and/or dismantling the coherency of such substance use binaries can serve as a biopolitical site for some GBM to construct their identities and demonstrate healthy, 'responsible' subjectivity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: This article reports on the creation, implementation, and evaluation of a life skills and HIV prevention program for Spanish-speaking gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men [...]

This study reports the experiences of 20 Turkish men in having sex with men in an Islamic society. As part of a broader study on Turkish homosexualities, the article analyzes responses to the question, 'What joys and difficulties have you experienced regarding your sexual orientation in relation to Islam?' to elicit responses on how Islam and homosexuality might coexist in everyday life. KEYWORDS. Islam, MSM, Turkey, homosexuality, gender, identity

Laud Humphreys: Prophet of Homosexuality and Sociology. By JOHN F. GALLIHER, WAYNE H. BREKHUS, and DAVID P. KEYS. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004. Pp. 144. $60.00 (cloth); $18.95 (paper). [...]

The current study examines the experiences of gay, bisexual, two-spirit and other men who have sex with men (GB2M) who use networking applications and their engagements with online sexual health outreach workers disseminating healthcare information through these digital spaces. The iCruise study was a longitudinal mixed-methods study across Ontario, Canada which collected data on online sexual health information seeking behaviors. Results offer insight into differences in information seeking behaviors among diverse groups of queer men. Implications for the dissemination of health information based on the results of information seeking patterns is discussed as well. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

ABSTRACT: This paper describes the experiences with sexual intimacy in a sample of people living with HIV or AIDS (PHAs) and using combination anti-retroviral therapies (CTs). Results were based on [...]

ABSTRACT: This study reports on one-on-one interviews with gay and bisexual men age forty and over, concerning their sexuality in the context of HIV. Respondents report a range of age-related [...]

The implications of age preference among gay and bisexual men is examined.

Our grounded theory analysis derives from in-depth interviews conducted with 24 gay, bisexual, queer, and other men who have sex with men (GBM) living in Toronto, Canada, to understand their experiences of sexual coercion. Participants drew on discourse from the #MeToo movement to reconsider the ethics of past sexual experiences. The idea that gay or queer sex is inherently risky and unique from heterosexual relations made negotiating sexual safety challenging. These notions were enforced by homophobic discourses on the one hand, and counter discourses of sexual liberation, resistance to heteronormativity, hegemonic masculinity, and HIV prevention on the other. Biomedical advances in HIV prevention such as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and undetectable viral load affected how some participants felt about sexual autonomy and safety. Participants held themselves responsible for needing to be more assertive within sexual encounters to avoid coercion. Many believed that unwanted sex is unavoidable among GBM: if "you're gay, it's just what happens." Targeted education aimed at GBM communities that incorporates insights on GBM sexual subcultures is necessary. This work must be situated within a broader understanding of how gender norms and hegemonic masculinity, racism, HIV status, and other power imbalances affect sexual decision-making, consent, pleasure, and sexual harm. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper offers a critique of several theoretical trends in neo- and post-Marxism and of new social movement theory, contending that many of the central tenets of political economy have been too quickly abandoned in analysing the new social movements and that, at the same time, these movements have too often been used to shore up other problematic areas of Marxian analysis. Some of these problems arise from generalizations made from very partial views of only certain movements. Theoretical work needs to include the political economy of these movements and at the same time learn from the analyses generated by these movements themselves.

This paper addresses the social construction of homosexual relations among men in Nicaragua in the late 1980s. The political economy of a nation, subjected to a devastating war by the United States, created conditions where sexual relations among men have not become organized into a gay world which would be familiar to North Americans and Europeans. Rather, homosexually-inclined men remain fully integrated in family and neighborhood life where they are often 'known about' but not 'recognized,' a condition which dissolves separateness but also suppresses the development of a gay culture beyond the bounds of heterosexist expectations.