New Zealand: As it launched a new campaign featuring a nude man, the New Zealand Aids Foundation (NZAF) blamed the closet for a spike in HIV infection on the South Island.
Mr Price said the surge in infections in the South Island was fuelled partly bydeeply closetedmen who have sex with men living in isolation from any identifiable gay community, which made it difficult to reach them with support and safe sex education...
...An earlier NZAF survey revealed that men who were isolated or too scared to come out and identify as gay were highly likely to practice unsafe sex.
As Mike A. of Ex-Gay Watch points out, this profile matches that of men involved in ex-gay ministries - Christian fundamentalist groups who try to surpress their homosexuality becuase they believe it's wrong, and asks
It may be advisable for ex-gays and other antigay same-sex-attracted individuals to pay closer attention to the role that closeted sexual attractions, antigay values, and unsafe binges play in the spread of HIV. Unfortunately, the Exodus web site offers no AIDS-prevention information, except to reject condoms even as a fallback measure, and to requiretotal abstinencefrom an ex-gay population prone to unsafe compulsive behavior.
Nude men feature on HIV campaign billboards—The Press, 2nd December 2003; New Zealand Ex-Gays at High Risk of HIV/AIDS?—Ex-Gay Watch, 1st December 2003.
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