More Gays In The News...

[jag]

Ya gotta love it.
http://www.rr.com/news/topic/article/rr ... _Gay/full/

[Big Media]

I had a nearly similar experience with AOL when I reported my home town as Beaver, WV.

[lastone]

I had a nearly similar experience with AOL when I reported my home town as Beaver, WV.

And let's not forget the Arazona female cop that arrested a West Virginia family for having "fake" license plates and drivers license. "There is no state of West Virginia" was the official charge. Booked em' even!

[CoolBreeze]

Fort Gay takes a "big backseat" to just plain old GAY WV:



Now THERE'S a hometown you can have pride in. Can you say Gay pride?

[jag]

I suppose it goes without saying that the fellow in CoolBreeze's posted picture seems to bear an ever-so-slight resemblance to Elton John, in a bad hairstyle sort of way.

[AmpedNow]

And let's not forget the Arazona female cop that arrested a West Virginia family for having "fake" license plates and drivers license. "There is no state of West Virginia" was the official charge. Booked em' even!

Never heard about this one...

Everyone I've ever talked to in faraway states has at least heard of WV... Even on the West Coast.

Then again, I've met people in Virginia who thought West Virginia was "Western Virginia", not a separate state.

[CoolBreeze]

Even MORE Gays in the news

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. --A filmmaker for the state Department of Transportation has been charged with attempting to covertly film people in the men's dressing room at the Huntington YMCA, according to a report in Friday's Huntington Herald-Dispatch.

David S. Marcum, 45, of Huntington, an employee of the DOT's communications office, was charged on Thursday with misdemeanor criminal invasion of privacy was.

A warrant affidavit charges that Marcum positioned video cameras "to record male persons while in a men's dressing room," according to the Herald-Dispatch. Marcum was arraigned and released on a $10,000 recognizance bond.

A video documentary by Marcum on construction of the new Blennerhassett Island Bridge carrying U.S. 50 across the Ohio River and Blennerhassett Island was selected as the best transportation film of 2009 by the National Transportation Public Affairs Workshop.

[jag]

I've met people in Virginia who thought West Virginia was "Western Virginia", not a separate state.

Some folks simply can't accept that the folks on the western side of the mountains won.

[CoolBreeze]

1 in 5 gay, bisexual men in US cities has HIV... Nearly half are unaware of their infection-CDC


CHICAGO, Sept 23 (Reuters) - Nearly one in five gay and bisexual men in 21 major U.S. cities are infected with HIV, and nearly half of them do not know it, U.S. health officials said on Thursday.

Young men, and especially young black men, are least likely to know if they are infected with HIV, according to a study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

"We need to reinvigorate our response to preventing HIV among gay and bisexual men," Dr. Jonathan Mermin, director of CDC's Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, said in a telephone interview.

"We can't allow HIV to continue its devastating toll among gay and bisexual men, and in particular, among young black men."

Researchers at the CDC studied 8,153 men who have sex with men in 21 U.S. cities. The men were taking part in the 2008 National HIV Behavioral Surveillance System, which looked at prevalence and awareness of the human immunodeficiency virus or HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

Overall, they found that 19 percent of gay men are infected with HIV.

The study found that 28 percent of gay black men infected with HIV, compared with 18 percent of Hispanic men and 16 percent of white men.

Black men in the study were also least likely to be aware of their infection, with 59 percent unaware of their infection compared with 46 percent of Hispanic men and 26 percent of white men.

Age also plays a role. Among 18 to 29-year-old men, 63 percent did not know they were infected with HIV, compared with 37 percent of men aged 30 and older, the team reported in the CDC's weekly report on death and disease.

The CDC recommends that gay and bisexual men of all ages get an HIV test each year, and men at highest risk -- those who have multiple sex partners or use drugs during sex -- get tested every three to six months.

"This alarming new data provides further evidence that prevention efforts for gay men have not been adequate to meet the growing epidemic and should be dramatically scaled up," said Carl Schmid of the nonprofit AIDS Institute.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idCNN231 ... 923?rpc=44