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Saying monkeypox is tearing through communities of queer men isn’t stigmatising – being afraid to say it is
The Guardian (UK) via MSN ^ | 2022-07-26 | Owen Jones

Posted on 07/27/2022 7:00:28 AM PDT by Salman

Not since the gruesome heyday of HIV/Aids has a virus been such a threat to the lives of men who have sex with men. As monkeypox rips through queer communities, particularly in London, the cruel legacy of that pandemic casts an unnerving shadow. Conversations in LGBTQ+ spaces – from Highgate men’s pond in the capital to bars and clubs in urban centres – turn anxiously to this new threat.

Those who have had the virus share their experiences: some mild symptoms, others painful and miserable. WhatsApp groups ping with pictures of gay and bisexual men proudly displaying plaster-covered upper arms to confirm they’ve been vaccinated in a flashback to the peak of the national Covid trauma. On the gay hookup app Grindr, some use their profiles to announce they’re abstaining from sexual contact until their scheduled vaccination; in queer clubs, some choose to skip the ritual taking-off of T-shirts, fearing the prolonged skin-on-skin contact of an intimate dance will put them at risk.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda
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To: gitmo

it’s not so much a threat to their lives, as you said, but a threat to their appearance and desirability.

Even gay men are turned off by other men covered in bumps.

Thus, it’s an existential threat to them.


21 posted on 07/27/2022 7:30:11 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: Salman

Not my circus, not my monkeys.


22 posted on 07/27/2022 7:30:52 AM PDT by nwrep
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

yeah, the CDC’s response was very inflated and run by, guess who! Anthony Fauci. That guy has always been a quack.


23 posted on 07/27/2022 7:30:59 AM PDT by NicoDon
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To: cymbeline

i didn’t say anything about the actual community because it doesn’t matter. It could be any group.


24 posted on 07/27/2022 7:32:47 AM PDT by NicoDon
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To: gitmo
But it makes them look gross so other men won't want to have sex with them.

For them, that is indeed an existential threat.

25 posted on 07/27/2022 7:34:30 AM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not a tagline.)
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To: Salman

They could call it - chimp cock or ape anus.


26 posted on 07/27/2022 7:36:15 AM PDT by Palio di Siena
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To: Salman

just ugh. I could not read this article, nauseous thinking about these queers.


27 posted on 07/27/2022 7:39:39 AM PDT by ronniesgal (Hot fun in the summertime! thanks rjo.)
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To: Salman

Has anyone else noticed that Monkeypox was infecting gay men, but then jumped to KIDS?

Is anybody asking questions?


28 posted on 07/27/2022 7:40:32 AM PDT by SJSAMPLE
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To: Salman

This is also true of the AIDS epidemic, incidentally. Unfortunately, that’s the disease with its own “civil rights.” Monkeypox is not there.... yet.


29 posted on 07/27/2022 7:41:11 AM PDT by fwdude (Every time I see someone voluntarily masked in public, I know I'm looking at a vaccinated person.)
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To: Salman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow0lr63y4Mw

STOP IT.


30 posted on 07/27/2022 7:44:10 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: gitmo

Almost 3x the wuhan and we shut the world down for that.


31 posted on 07/27/2022 7:46:07 AM PDT by ealgeone
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Will they announce it if Buttjuice contracts it?


32 posted on 07/27/2022 7:52:22 AM PDT by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: Salman

God shall not be mocked!


33 posted on 07/27/2022 8:02:39 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: NicoDon

“i didn’t say anything about the actual community because it doesn’t matter. It could be any group.”

My “no” was my answer to your question. I agree with you. It is not statistically reasonable ...


34 posted on 07/27/2022 8:06:59 AM PDT by cymbeline
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

Is this where all the pregnant men the Dems talk about are coming from.


35 posted on 07/27/2022 8:08:26 AM PDT by chopperk
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To: Salman

News report this morning a person asked “are we allowed to say that it’s predominantly in the gay community?”

I wish the news man Had responded “what are we? Russia? North Korea? China? Of course it’s OK to state a fact, even if others don’t like to hear it! “


36 posted on 07/27/2022 8:09:53 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Salman
How is it homophobic to warn homosexuals that they are at risk?

37 posted on 07/27/2022 8:20:32 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: PeterPrinciple

One of my favs!


38 posted on 07/27/2022 8:27:36 AM PDT by folkquest (“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.” – George Orwell)
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To: Salman

They should abstain from gay sex parties for two weeks to flaccid the curve.


39 posted on 07/27/2022 8:30:34 AM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
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To: Salman

Owen Jones turned gay after watching some dude screw his girlfriend and becoming more attracted to the guy lol


40 posted on 07/27/2022 8:30:55 AM PDT by struggle
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