Thursday, July 30, 2009

PodCast: IML Bareback Issue

Brian and David B. over at The Occasional Fag hosted Will Clark and I on their Pod Cast to talk about the IML No-more-bareback-issue which recently came down the pipes.

I thought we had a great conversation. We touch upon a lot of topics surrounding this current event and other talking points which are inextricably entwined to the unsafe bareback sex topic.

Listen in: Click here for the pod cast.

2 comments:

ryan charisma said...

Hey Eric,

Most excellent discussion. The point that really jumped out at me that I had never thought of before is the concept that we (the gay community) is holding all these fundraiser and AIDS walks and then going out and barebacking. And how that behavior undermines the good that we're doing for our own community.

It's an excellent point.

PS - the hosts microphone was turned up too high or the two guests were too low. FYI for any future podcasts.

paul in san jose, ca. said...

hi eric,

i love your blog. i have been a fan for over one year now. thank you for such a great site.

now to comment on the podcast about barebacking:

i am a 43 year old, hiv poz, latino gay man. i am a barebacker and have been for over 10 years (i bareback with other poz men).

it saddens me and frustrates me when i hear obviously intelligent and proud gay men, such as yourselves, speak with such disdain and judgment of others who they feel are either beneath them or disgusting to them because of what these others do or are doing, or because they can't seem to understand them.

also, what is so confusing about an active barebacker, such as myself, giving money to or attending an AIDS/HIV charity? can you all not see that even though i choose this type of activity for myself that it might be possible for me to hate the fact that aids/hiv exists? that i quite possibly might want to help out in the discovery of a cure or vaccine?

if a negative gay man actively goes out and chooses to bareback with others and then contracts the virus is that his fault? (barring bug chasers which in all my 10 years of barebacking i have only met one) did he create hiv/aids? and beacuse of that does that mean that all services for hiv/aids out there are no longer available to him?

thanks for allowing me to comment,
paul c.
san jose, ca