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Davies AWJ, Winkelman S, Collict D, Brennan DJ. “I wouldn’t say that I’m overly campy”: The socio-cultural subjugation of femininity within gay socio-sexual applications. THE CANADIAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN SEXUALITY 2023. [DOI: 10.3138/cjhs.2022-0032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/17/2023]
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The prevalence of femmephobic attitudes amongst gay, bisexual, and queer (GBQ) men is well-reported, yet under-discussed employing femme theory. Femmephobia, or the socio-cultural regulation of femininity, is common within GBQ online socio-sexual applications, yet more research is needed to analyze the different ways femmephobia takes place within GBQ socio-sexual applications predominately used by GBQ men. This study analyzes qualitative data from semi-structured interviews with 79 participants who described their experiences using socio-sexual applications and interacting with online outreach and health information workers. Participants described the different ways femmephobia and the regulation of femininity manifests within GBQ socio-sexual applications and how such forms of regulation relate to self-presentation and the privileging of masculinity within GBQ socio-sexual applications. Participants further described how femmephobia and the denigration of femininity intersected with anti-Asian racism online.
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- Adam W. J. Davies
- Department of Family Relations and Applied Nutrition, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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- Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Brennan DJ, Kesler MA, Davies AWJ, Ablona A, Collict D. Online Sexual Health Information Seeking Patterns Differentiated by Social Location and Physical Location among Gay and Bisexual Men in Ontario, Canada. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SEXUAL HEALTH : OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE WORLD ASSOCIATION FOR SEXUAL HEALTH 2022; 34:627-643. [PMID: 38596392 PMCID: PMC10903633 DOI: 10.1080/19317611.2022.2091076] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/09/2020] [Revised: 06/06/2022] [Accepted: 06/09/2022] [Indexed: 04/11/2024]
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Objective This research aimed to understand the varying needs of diverse gay and bisexual men (GBM) in relation to online sexual health information-seeking dependent upon differing social sociodemographic variables and geographic location. Methods A total of 1802 GBM in Ontario participated in this study. Multivariable regressions were conducted to analyze differences in information-seeking based on ethnicity group, HIV status, recent sexual behavior and regionality (urban and rural location). Results There were significant differences in online sexual health information-seeking content based on these demographic variables. Conclusions Implications for sexual health outreach and service provision for diverse GBM are discussed as well.
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- David J. Brennan
- Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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- School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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- Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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Coleman TA, Phillips NE, Rizkalla C, Tran B, Coulombe S, Davis C, Cameron R, Travers R, Wilson C, Woodford M. Exploring community enabling factors associated with recent HIV testing in a regional sample of gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men. AIDS Care 2022; 35:942-952. [PMID: 35637571 DOI: 10.1080/09540121.2022.2074959] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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HIV testing and diagnosis are the gateway into treatment and eventual viral suppression. With gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM) persistently over-representing new HIV diagnoses in Canada, combined with the evolving nature of community social connection, an exploration of factors associated with recent HIV testing is warranted. As most studies of GBMSM rely on samples obtained from larger metropolitan regions, examining HIV testing from an under-researched region is necessary. With data collected from an online survey of LGBTQ+ persons 16 or older living, working, or residing in the Region of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, we used multinomial logistic regression to explore socio-demographic, behavioural, and psychosocial factors associated with recent HIV testing for GBMSM. In the final multivariate multinomial logistic regression model: sense of belonging was associated with more recently testing, as was having an increasing proportion of LGBT friends, app use to find sex partners in the past 12 months, access to the local AIDS service organization, and general sense of belonging to local community, among other. This analysis highlights the continued importance of enabling and need factors when accessing testing, and suggests areas for further testing promotion in physical and virtual spaces frequented by GBMSM.
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- Todd A. Coleman
- Department of Health Sciences, Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Health Sciences, Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Health Sciences, Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario, Canada
- Institute of Medical Science, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario, Canada
- AIDS Committee of Cambridge, Kitchener, Waterloo and Area, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Health Sciences, Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Psychology, Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario, Canada
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- Lyle S. Hallman Faculty of Social Work, Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario, Canada
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Rendina HJ, Talan AJ, Tavella NF, Matos JL, Jimenez RH, Jones SS, Salfas B, Westmoreland D. Leveraging Technology to Blend Large-Scale Epidemiologic Surveillance With Social and Behavioral Science Methods: Successes, Challenges, and Lessons Learned Implementing the UNITE Longitudinal Cohort Study of HIV Risk Factors Among Sexual Minority Men in the United States. Am J Epidemiol 2021; 190:681-695. [PMID: 33057684 PMCID: PMC8024044 DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwaa226] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2020] [Revised: 10/01/2020] [Accepted: 10/08/2020] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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The use of digital technologies to conduct large-scale research with limited interaction (i.e., no in-person contact) and objective endpoints (i.e., biological testing) has significant potential for the field of epidemiology, but limited research to date has been published on the successes and challenges of such approaches. We analyzed data from a cohort study of sexual minority men across the United States, collected using digital strategies during a 10-month period from 2017 to 2018. Overall, 113,874 individuals were screened, of whom 26,000 were invited to the study, 10,691 joined the study, and 7,957 completed all enrollment steps, including return of a human immunodeficiency virus-negative sample. We examined group differences in completion of the steps towards enrollment to inform future research and found significant differences according to several factors, including age and race. This study adds to prior work to provide further proof-of-concept for this limited-interaction, technology-mediated methodology, highlighting some of its strengths and challenges, including rapid access to more diverse populations but also potential for bias due to differential enrollment. This method has strong promise, and future implementation research is needed to better understand the roles of burden, privacy, access, and compensation, to enhance representativeness and generalizability of the data generated.
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- H Jonathon Rendina
- Correspondence to Dr. H. Jonathon Rendina, Department of Psychology, Hunter College of the City University of New York, 695 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10065 (e-mail: )
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