Is disclosure a particular problem for sexually active HIV-positive gay men?
I think it is a very big problem, an ongoing problem. I dont think it is something that you can decide Im going to do this and then do it 100%, though. It has an evolution to it. It is also a bigger problem for people who have more sexual partners than others. It is easier for someone not to judge someone who is not disclosing if they are with only one partner or five partners as opposed to 50. The person disclosing to 50 partners has a lot more to deal with. In your movie two men have casual sex but do not discuss HIV or sexually transmitted diseases until after. Is this something still happening a lot among gay men? I think so. That is what happened in my experience, and a lot of people I spoke to say, “Yeah, that happened to me once.” I think it is just part of the figuring out the whole disclosure issue as a gay manwhether you are negative or positive. You have to practice doing ittalking about HIV and STDsand a lot of the time it is an afterthought, because you do not want to inte
