The Power of Gay Sex for Queer Liberation
The For Fuck’s Sake Summit, hosted by the organization MPact Global Action for Gay Men’s Health and Rights, is a groundbreaking convening that will bring back the focus to gay sex at this summer’s International AIDS Conference in Montreal on July 28.Nearly 70 countries around the world still criminalize same-sex sexual behavior.
For centuries gay, bisexual, and queer men have pursued sex while navigating violence, discrimination, arrest, and disease. The 1970s was a moment of sexual liberation, but once AIDS happened that was all sent into retreat.
For decades after, gay sex would be inescapably linked to death and disease.For 40 years the conversation around gay sex has been nearly always about preventing illness.
The key messages we’ve heard have been stop having sex, reduce the number of partners, or use a condom every time. The overwhelming narrative around gay sex was that it was something dirty and immoral.
