Michelangelo Signorile

About the author: Michelangelo Signorile is the author of Queer In America: Sex, the Media and the Closets of Power and Outing Yourself.

Although the AIDS epidemic continues to spread, many gay men continue to have unsafe sex. There appears to be a general lack of responsibility and concern toward prevention in gay populations. Many HIV-positive men who are aware that they carry the virus continue having unsafe sex with uninfected partners. Most AIDS activists and programs emphasize the responsibilities of the uninfected. While the HIV-negative population has a responsibility to protect itself, HIV-positive men also have a responsibility toward the uninfected.

Everywhere you turn these days, it seems, there is another report about the alarming breakdown in safe sex among gay men. In a current study financed by the Centers for...