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Lecture 2008: Richard Parker

NSRC hosted Richard Parker for its John H. Gagnon Distinguished Lecture in September 2008. Dr. Parker's talk: "Reinventing Sexual Scripts: Sexuality and social change in the 21st century."

Vulnerable to H.I.V., Resistant to Labels

MEXICO CITY — The 29-year-old is not gay. He wants that known. He did have sex with a man once, but that was the result of loneliness and his hormones’ being in overdrive, he said, not because of any attraction to men. He suspects that the one encounter was responsible for giving him the virus that causes AIDS. But he is not gay

What Do Gay Men Want?

What is the queerest space of all? I say it’s the space of subjectivity. What’s our inner world like? How do we describe our own interiority? What do we mean when we try to speak about what goes on inside our minds, inside our souls, inside ourselves? Where is that queer “inside” located, exactly? How is it laid

Métodos de Barrera Cervical: Expandiendo las Opciones de la Mujer para la Prevención de Enfermedades Sexuales como el VIH

Investigadores ven al diafragma como una manera de prevenir el VIH y embarazos a la vez.

Research on Sexuality and Embodiment Featured in Special Issue of Sexuality Research and Social Policy: Journal of NSRC

Researchers report on different aspects of sexuality from the unifying perspective of how we experience the world through our bodies and listen, or not, to what our bodies are feeling.

Young, Poor, and HIV Negative

Across the world, young people experience a disproportionate share of unplanned pregnancies, sexually transmitted infections, and other sexual and reproductive health problems. How, in the face of the growing HIV epidemic, can policymakers and practitioners in resource-constrained settings develop programs that are likely to have the greatest impact?

The Realities of Unprotected Sex: Barebacking in a post-HAART HIV culture

Like many gay men, I have had bareback sex. As a twenty-two-year-old gay man who came of age in a time when HIV was not the mystery it was when I came into this world, you might think my behavior inexcusable. Yes, I knew the stakes going into it. Yes, I had explored safe sex websites and taught myself the ins and outs of transmission risks.

Before There was AIDS: Looking at Gay Sex in the 70s

Watching Joseph Lovett's Gay Sex in the 70's is like glimpsing into a nostalgic photo album filled with memories of a world buried in the past. This documentary chronicles gay culture in New York's Upper West Side between the summer of 1969 and the summer of 1982, the time period beginning with Stonewall and ending with onset of the AIDS

The Realities of Unprotected Sex: Barebacking in a post-HAART HIV culture Sneek Preview

Like many gay men, I have had bareback sex. As a 22-year-old gay man who came of age in a time when HIV was not the mystery it was when I came into this world, you might think my behavior inexcusable. Yes, I knew the stakes going into it. Yes, I had explored safe sex websites and taught myself the ins and outs of transmission risks. I even took