In a recent Southern Voice article, news editor Dyana Bagby reported that gay and bisexual men are 50 times more likely to have HIV (human immunodeficiency virus).
While most of the gay community is aware that our population is the highest proportion of cases, this is a new way to look at things. Finally, as one [...]

hi incoming gay freshmen!
i don’t know how you found this blog.  probably from incessant googling to find out what the hell’s queer in Athens, because you’re out of high school, and now that you’re going to college, you can finally find love!  or sex!  depending!  probably love!  how do you do that?  how do you [...]

Hey everyone, my name is Keith and I’m 23 years old. I’ve pretty much known that I was gay since the age of 10, I know that’s young, but not uncommon. But for many years I kept those feelings suppressed and acted like I was straight. I started coming out to people when I was [...]

Am I gay? Why am I having these funny feelings? I’ll just watch this guy-on-guy porn to see what it’s like. Those times I messed around with my buddies in middle school was just for fun. Are there others around me that are going through the same thing? If God loved me, he wouldn’t make [...]

From Brett at Georgia Liberal:
On August 5th, the APA released a statement following a two-year long study of the success of ex-gay reparative therapy organizations that there is “insufficient evidence that sexual orientation change efforts work“. The study reviewed literature from journal articles published over the last 40 years and found that most of them [...]

GayInAthens.com reader Taher submitted the following question:
i do masturbate daily from last 4/5 years … and still doing 1 time everyday … so may i know how can i stop it and what is its future i mean damages … thank u …
Lucky for you, Taher, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with masturbation. You can do [...]

Not long ago, I shared my coming out story with you. Essentially, I discussed coming out to my immediate family. But, as anyone who is out knows, coming out is not a one-stop process. Instead, it’s something that we do very often.
Coming out to your friends or roommates can be a scary thing to do, [...]

I was closeted until about a year ago. Coming out was not easy for me. But it was worth it, and I’d never go back.
I dated girls in high school, and actually made some swell friends from those relationships. I used to talk smack with the guys about “getting chicks.” I was always friends with [...]

A screenshot of the Athens metro area shows that Athens-Clarke County has the highest rates this side of Atlanta. Green is good, red is bad.
A new mapping system from the National Minority Quality Forum indicates that Clarke County shares similar AIDS prevalence ratings as some metro-Atlanta counties and much of South Georgia.
The mapping system, which [...]

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AIDS Athens makes getting tested for HIV easy in the Classic City. This Saturday, June 27, is National HIV Testing Day, and AIDS Athens will be taking part in the day’s goal to educate the public about testing and counseling [...]

Joshua Trey Barnett's top 5 things your parents will say when you come out.
If you’re gay and not yet out, I thought I’d pass along a few heads-ups. While some of these may seem harsh, remember that coming out is a process. More than likely, your parents have raised you for years with the idea [...]

Dr. Dawn Bennett-Alexander discusses labeling in the LGBT community.
When I told my sister I had fallen in love with a woman, her response was “Well, does this mean you won’t still knit or quilt?” As stupid as this sounds, I totally understood where she was coming from. Who ever heard of a lesbian knitting or [...]

By Dr. Dawn Bennett-Alexander

Ande Stone
Ande Stone will soon be sporting a hot GayInAthens.com tee! Ande recently submitted his coming out story via our Your Story campaign. You can read it by clicking here.
In case you’re not sure what I’m talking about here, at the beginning of March, GayInAthens.com launched a campaign to compile coming out stories. Some of [...]

I guess I should start off with the whole “I have kinda known my entire life” cliché.  Which, in a way, I guess I have known my entire life. I never really liked getting dirty (seriously, I hate getting dirt on me) and I was never that much interested in what other people would think [...]