Thread by @AnuHazraMD

Demonizing consensual sex as promiscuous IS highly stigmatizing and actively works against sexual liberation and overall sexual health. 🧵 1/n

Queer people may have more open conversations around sex, but it is often because we have had to for most of our lives. It does not mean we have more sex than our non-queer counterparts. Most queer people understand this basic reasoning. 2/n

Stating that the current #MPX outbreak is spreading among sexual networks of MSM is not stigmatizing, it’s factual.

Place some sort of moral framework on this fact is what’s stigmatizing. 3/n

Queer people have always been tasked to take care of our own sexual health. We are able to handle nuance and able to parse through data and facts. 4/n

We can understand that our communities (in the US and globally) are suffering disproportionately in the midst of this outbreak.

We recognize that our communities need urgent biomedical interventions and unified messaging to help stop transmission. 5/n

We *don’t* need bizarre tweets from a ?parody sleep doctor account to white knight for us in the most unhelpful and stigmatizing ways. 6/n

These accounts have been amplifying accurate MPX messaging. Spend your energy listening to this voices over “disrupters” who have no stake the livelihood of queer people.

@dr_demetre
@oni_blackstock
@Boghuma
@JncherabieMD
@Matthew_Hodson
@Jason10033
@hrenoID
@PrEP4AllNow