Intimate partner violence IPV rates are disproportionately high among sexual minority populations. Few studies have examined the plausible relationship between minority stress and IPV among men who have sex with men.
Drum Sista's members pound and caress the skins, bonding through the rhythm in an atmosphere of like-minded women — activists and artists, all African-American, all lesbian. The city and its suburbs have, in recent years, become attractive cities for black gays and lesbians.
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Since , Atlanta's Counter Narrative Project has been working to raise awareness about the lives of and give voice to the city's community of black gay men through public education, advocacy, and community mobilization. Johnnie Kornegay has been with the Counter Narrative Project since
Several passages have been removed from this story because the source of those passages, Mickyel Bradford, has admitted to fabricating them. Bradford now confirms that neither of those events occurred as described.
Despite Atlanta being a city that is leading the way with African American businesses, philanthropy, entertainment and politics, there is one aspect that is tearing the city down: Since starting a routine testing program in , the nationally-renowned medical center, Grady Hospital, has diagnosed an average of two or three patients with HIV every single day.