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Some new statistics, released in Montreal and New Brunswick, are showing an increase in new sexually transmitted infections for gay men. The Montreal Clinic L’Actuel has signaled that more and more young gay men are contracting HIV, while in New Brunswick, the public health department is worried about a radical increase in syphilis infections, notably amongst young gay men.

Dr. Barry Adam has devoted his life to studying gay male sexual health, and the impact and understanding of HIV on our lives. He will close this year’s Concordia HIV/AIDS Lecture Series on Thursday, March 15, with the timely topic of “Neoliberalism, Masculinity, and HIV Risk” – Dr. Adams spoke with 2Bmag about his recent research and successfully avoided talking about THAT POSTER.

You might know by his pseudonym, Nikko Brave. This young porn actor from Mexico who studied literature at Concordia has been in Quebec since 1994. Ambitious and open-minded, he dreamed of helping his community, without exactly knowing how. It was after he heard a shocking story about barebacking that he got the idea for the Play Safe project

The last time I had spoken to yoga instructor David Flewelling, it was at an underwear party at the loft in the Village. He exuded his usual self-assured and challenging mode of being, with a small tribe of obedient boys downward-dogging at Kai Design‘s space on St-Timothée. As the one-man show behind both Mudraforce – [...]

Tucked cutely on the second floor of a busy commercial stretch of rue St-Denis, this prosaically named spa offers a beautifully simple list of treatments: the floating Epsom salts bath, and massage. Boísin Murphy found myself immediately charmed one brisk November morning when he arrived, a little late and uncaffeinated, to the white and turquoise country-style relaxation haven with its whispering female staff…

In the summer of 1981, doctors sounded the alarm as certain homosexual men were dying of an unknown disease that would soon become a global epidemic. Jean-Pierre Routy was a young medical intern in the south of France at the time, and saw some of the very first AIDS patients that few other doctors wanted to treat. Ever since then, he has been active in the struggle to fight the disease. He is sometimes disappointed, but always optimistic. 2B caught up with him to discuss his new book, a sort of encyclopaedia of the disease, which is as practical as it is moving.

Millions of Canadian men have embraced the benefits of staying active in order to maintain a healthy lifestyle, but at the core of men’s health sits a topic that even for gay men – a community that has a stereotyped propensity for being more in touch with their man junk – is still an uncomfortable one to talk about.

For many gay men, the gym is a prime spot for cruising. But while the gym may lend itself perfectly to prolonged eye contact between sweaty strangers, it isn’t always the easiest place to strike up a conversation. Personal trainer Sylvain Burguet has come up with a unique way to make working out a more social affair – the Gladiator Boot Camp.

If you’re into the sexier aspects of group yoga, but have been told that getting down to your skivvies is inappropriate, the 2X Underwear Yoga Party could be just the thing for you. This Saturday, Nov 12, 4-6pm, with drinks and music after. Yogay!

As it turns out, anal sex is not (necessarily) the norm. A new study conducted by George Mason University, Indian University, and Online Buddies Inc. (the parent company of Manhunt) reveals some very interesting new information about men who have sex with men (MSM). The online study questioned just under 25 000 gay and bisexual men aged 18-87 on their last sexual encounter. This is the first study to focus on male to male sex at the event level.