By William I. Johnston

Mental and social exam of the problems confronting HIV-negative homosexual males ten years after the advent of HIV trying out. subject matters contain survivor guilt, relationships among HIV-negative and HIV-positive companions, and sexual risk-taking. 15 U.S. participants.

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49 HIV-NEGATIVE There are some cruisy areas in the Blue Hills, south of Boston. There are miles of marked hiking trails. Both on the marked trails and off, beaten paths have been created in certain areas by horny gay men. People cruise each other, talk, meet, take walks, play there. Sometimes they go other places to have privacy. Sometimes you see condom packages and condoms, a pair of underwear, or a porn magazine. Condoms indicate that maybe people are fucking in the woods. I've seen plenty of blow jobs.

It sounded a little elitist: "Hey, we're all negative. We're all clean. " Most of it is not that. I realized, "My God, I found out I'm HIVnegative and yet I'm still anxious about it. " There are no other groups specifically having to do with being HIV-negative and where you go from there. I wanted to go to the HIV-Negative Support Group before my HIV-positive friend arrived last summer. For some reason it didn't work out; I can't recall why. The first time I went to the group was after the traumatic incident where my friend came on me and for me it represented unsafe sex.

I was 21. " It was not only religious Fundamentalists who equated being gay with getting AIDS in the early years of the epidemic. Tucker recalled the reaction of a former sweetheart when he told her he was gay: "She cried and said she had always loved me and had always wanted me to be the one to share her life. She was a nurse. '" 31 HIV-NEGATIVE Tucker's recollections reminded me of an episode from my college years. " I sat silentlyon the dock with heat rising in my face, ashamed that I was not out of the closet enough to confront them.

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