Risk for HIV among behaviorally homosexual White and African-American men.
Int Conf AIDS 1996 Jul 7-12; 11:263 (abstract no. Tu.D.602) Stokes J; University of Illinois-Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA. Fax: 312-413-4122.
Individual interviews were conducted with 750 African-American and White men who have sex with men. Behavioral criteria were used to establish groups of bisexual and homosexual men. Gay men were more likely that bisexual men to have engaged in unprotected receptive anal sex. This difference was a function of more men in the gay subsample having engaged in any type of anal sex, protected or unprotected. Rates of condom use for anal sex were not different in the two groups. There were few differences between the gay and bisexual men on psychosocial variables, although the bisexual men were more self-homophobic and saw others as less accepting of homosexual activity. The interaction of subsample (gay-bisexual) and ethnicity (African- American - White) predicted self-homophobia and disclosure to others of same-sex activities, with the difference between gay and bisexual men being greater for White than for African-American men.
Keywords: AEGIS, Whites, Blacks, Homosexuality, Bisexuality, Homosexuality, Male, Sex Behavior, Caucasoid Race, Risk-Taking, HIV Infections, Risk, HIV Seropositivity, Prejudice, HIV Antibodies, Interviews, Risk Factors, Human, Male, ICA11
