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The Sunday Quick Post: Monkeypox isn’t a gay disease
Stigma lies just about everywhere these days and fortunately, education is helping us remove stigmas from a lot of issues, but what happens when old stigmas come back? Monkeypox is something that’s been well covered by now and just like the HIV/AIDS epidemic of the 1980’s, it’s now being thought that it’s spread by gay and bisexual men. Monkeypox is not an STI Let’s get something straight. Monkeypox is not a gay disease and saying it is, is irresponsible and dangerous. Monkeypox is not a sexual disease, meaning people do not have to have sexual contact with someone to get it. They just must have close physical contact. In fact,…