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Virus Transmits much more Easily Via Anal Intercourse, Research Shows New research pinpoints a major reason why gay and bisexual men remain so vulnerable to the AIDS epidemic: When it comes to the transmission of HIV, a man who has unprotected anal intercourse is at especially high risk. In fact, if that kind of intercourse was only as risky as vaginal intercourse, researchers report, HIV cases among gay and bisexual men would shrink dramatically. It would go down even more, they added, if their rates of casual sex declined. [. . . ] According to UNAIDS, HIV is more common...

The gay community in the western world, mauled by the first wave of the AIDS pandemic, now faces a second storm, according to a forecast released at the International AIDS conference. Since 2001, new cases of HIV in the homosexual population in the United States, Europe, Canada and Australasia have been rising by about 1.9 percent per year, the research by the University of Pittsburgh said. Without action to correct this trend -- a return to safe sex or an unexpected medical breakthrough -- the infection rate is set to soar as the population ages. In 2001, HIV affected on...

Activists and politicians upset by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's vow to veto the same-sex marriage bill that the state Legislature passed last week have delayed sending him the bill in a bid to change his mind. A bill must be physically in the governor's possession before he can veto it. And the Assembly's leadership doesn't plan to deliver the gay marriage bill to Schwarzenegger's desk until the Sept. 23 deadline, Assemblyman Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, said Monday.