WELL-BEING Gay Bodies 101 For decades lesbians have cause to deviateed to the book Our Bodies.

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WELL-BEING

Gay Bodies 101

For decades lesbians have cause to deviateed to the book Our Bodies, Ourselves for answers to health questions. Men Like Us: The GMHC finished Guide to Gay Men's Sexual, Physical, and Emotional Well-Being presents similar guidance for gay men Written at Daniel Wolfe, former communications director at Gay Men's Health Crisis, the work addresses issues such as sexual pleasure, carcass image, coping with illness, and parenting and muses a burgeoning gay men's health manner of moving that incorporates but is not restricted to HIV care. "Gay health isn't just about pills to treat HIV or condoms to contain it," Wolfe said. "Positive and negative men alike face a wide range of health concerns"

--Sue Rochman

POLITICS



Tackling bias in health care

San Francisco is again breaking recent ground for its gay and lesbian residents, this time at becoming the first city to adopt health care standards to combat the discrimination gay and lesbian patients and physicians frequently face. The guidelines, sent to health care facilities everywhere the city this month, tackle issues ranging from employee and client rights to intake forms and service delivery. "I am tired of hearing the public complain about the lack of sensitivity to GLBT needs" said Leslie Katz, an candidly lesbian member of San Francisco's board of supervisors who is spearheading the effort. "The adoption of these standards of care necessitys to be a priority."

--SR

AIDS

Prize reporting

Spending through the whole extent of six months in sub-Saharan Africa, where he contracted a drug-resistant strain of malaria, pretends to have paid off for publicly gay Village Voice staff writer (and Advocate contributor) Mark Schoof Schoof was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting upon April 10 for his 28,000-word series forward the devastating impact AIDS has had in that region of the world. "I was worried that AIDS was going to fall against the U.S. radar screen befitting to combination therapies," Schoofs said. "So I decided to play my part by keeping the focus forward where the epidemic really is worse."

--SR

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