Comments on: ‘Clean guys only’ /opinion/clean-guys-only/74324 Setting Australia’s LGBTI agenda since 1979 Sun, 29 Apr 2012 22:36:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Stuart Baanstra /opinion/clean-guys-only/74324#comment-105362 Sun, 29 Apr 2012 22:36:21 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=74324#comment-105362 HIV is just another area where gay people are discriminated. No other group faces the levels of discrimination that we do. They don’t even come close.

]]> By: martin /opinion/clean-guys-only/74324#comment-105294 Sun, 29 Apr 2012 06:44:14 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=74324#comment-105294 negatives are ‘creating an environment’???? negatives are working all the time at staying negative, and paying their dues for it. you want to deal yourself into the experience of being positive, you’re creating the environment for yourself.

]]> By: Shane McMaster /opinion/clean-guys-only/74324#comment-101513 Tue, 03 Apr 2012 06:47:45 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=74324#comment-101513 Interesting article. I’d agree about the need for more open communication about HIV and HIV status in the community as a way of reducing stigma. I also think that disclosing HIV status to a sexual partner shows respect and concern for your partner’s sexual health (especially if they ask and/or you know that you are HIV positive).

However, I disagree that people who refuse to have sex with HIV positive men are ‘creating an environment where HIV positive men find it difficult to disclose their status because of fears about adverse consequences’ and that this is ‘lead[ing] to to gay men being hesitant to get tested for HIV’. People have different levels of comfort and boundaries regarding their sexual values, and not everyone feels comfortable having sex with someone who discloses that they are HIV positive (even if it is safe). I would say this environment is being created more by the *way* in which people communicate their comfort levels and boundaries around this issue.

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