Differences in Risk Behavior and Sources of AIDS Information Among Gay, Bisexual, and Straight-Identified Men Who Have Sex with Men |
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| Authors: | Gary Goldbaum Tom Perdue Richard Wolitski Cornelis Rietmeijer Allan Hedrich Robert Wood Martin Fishbein David Cohn Nan Corby Anne Freeman Carolyn Guenther-Grey John Sheridan Susan Tross |
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| Affiliation: | (1) Seattle-King County Department of Public Health, AIDS Prevention Project, Seattle, Washington.;(2) Division of HIV and AIDS Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Behavioral Intervention Research Branch, Atlanta, Georgia;(3) Denver Department of Public Health, Denver AIDS Prevention, Denver, Colorado;(4) Evanjelicke Lyceum, Bratislava, Slovakia;(5) Public Policy Center, The Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania;(6) Denver Department of Public Health, AIDS Community Demonstration Projects, Denver, Colorado;(7) AIDS Community Demonstration Projects, California State University, Long Beach, California;(8) Dallas County Health Department, AIDS Community Demonstration Projects, Dallas, Texas;(9) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, AIDS Community Demonstration Projects, Atlanta, Georgia;(10) AIDS Community Demonstration Projects. Conwal, Inc., Falls Church, Virginia;(11) National Development and Research Institute, AIDS Community Demonstration Projects, New York, New York;(12) Seattle-King County Department of Public Health, AIDS Community Demonstration Projects, Seattle, Washington |
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| Abstract: | At public sex environments in four U.S. cities, 1,369 men who have sex with men (MSM) were asked about sexual self-identification, recent HIV risk behaviors, and exposures to HIV information. Half of respondents (n = 687) self-identified as gay, 40% (n = 546) as bisexual, and 10% (n = 136) as straight. Ninety-nine percent of both gay and bisexual MSM and 96% of straight MSM reported oral sex with men; 94%, 68%, and 46%, respectively, reported anal sex with men, while 62%, 98%, and 97%, respectively, reported vaginal sex with women. Recent exposure to any HIV information was reported by 96%, 91%, and 89% respectively of gay, bisexual, and straight MSM; gay MSM were most likely to get HIV information from talking with someone. However, television was the only medium to reach more than half of gay, bisexual, and straight MSM. Non-gay-identified MSM and their partners are at high risk for HIV transmission, but more study is needed to identify the most effective channels for conveying risk reduction messages to this population. |
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| Keywords: | Media information gay bisexual straight |
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