Thursday, March 15, 2007

Live with the LGBTI's from Philly


Hey there,

Coming to you live from Philadelphia and the LGBTI Health Summit that is just getting underway here. Am doing a presentation on one of my favorite topics - rectal microbicides - this morning with my pal Jim Maynard from Fenway in Boston (who will talk about pre-exposure prophylaxis and vaccines.) "Revolutionizing Sex in the New Millennium" is our schtick. My half of the presentation - "Viva La Rectum" - can be found on the International Rectal Microbicide Working Group website under the column "recent presentations." I will con the other Jim into letting me post his slides there as well... I saw them last night and they are very sexy and fun... yeah, and informative too.

What is cool about this summit is the sheer diversity of people and topics. I will try to break away and post here as much as I can, but no promises. I am especially keyed into issues of mental health and depression among gay men. Having just been diagnosed with clinical depression at a recent stint in a gay psych unit - a rather altering experience - and just starting on anti-depressants as of a week ago, I want to learn more for myself and want to share. Because there is a LOT of undiagnosed depression in gay men and if we could just get a handle on this in some way, a lot of our other health issues, including but not limited to HIV and substance use/abuse, would be impacted in fabulous ways. Depression and other mental illness is at the roots of so many of our problems, yet we continue to hack away at the tops of the weeds.

Any cool stuff I find on this issue I will post about. And if you know of cool weblinks, other resources, please let me know here and I will make sure we get it posted on www.LifeLube.org.


Did I mention that the hotel is located right in the "gayborhood?" Very convenient for research purposes...

Chow for now
Jim

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