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One thing about getting pozzed and HIV regimens: you don’t really get to choose. I for example have a mutation which causes HIV to be fully resistant to NNRTI class drugs, like what is half of the medicines in Cabenuva, so there is no complete regimen for me and anyone else who inherited their HIV from people who had trouble with Efavirenz or Nevirapine toxicity and side effects years ago. Your HIV is genotyped and phenotyped using Stanford’s comprehensive database of HIV mutations, and it will suggest to you what drugs are most effective. YMMV.

It’s Folsom Weekend. Exciting weekend ahead for San Francisco. Judging from the weather report for tomorrow (Friday) it should be a nice day for Marshalls Beach, if we’re lucky. And of course Folsom Street Fair is on Sunday. I am curious. What are your plans, or how did it go?

Buena Vista Park, fully. Usually gets busy near 10:00-11:00 PM and 4:00-500 AM but stuff could happen anytime. If its 70° on the Pacific coast side of SF (in the Avenues) I would recommend a day at Marshall’s Beach. It is a hell of a climb down but once there we take our clothes off and find our courage. Bring a nice jacket regardless. Unlike the rest of the United States, we have a marine layer that has the effect of dampening our atmosphere by creating fog and cool ocean breezes. I say if you want warm, this is not the time of year, weatherwise to come to San Francisco. There are very few warm nights. Welcome to San Francisco. Don’t leave anything behind in your rental car on the street. Paperclip, empty bottle, etc. You’ll be bipped. Don’t get bipped!

Yes. Being 5’ 8” and 120 LB I get raped whenever I’m with a (unknown to me) rapist and we end up alone together, when they can get away with it. If this scenario presents itself as long as they don’t try to harm me (happened twice) I don’t fight back and I let them finish inside me. I also had friends invite over someone who has ended up raping me while they watched, and I don’t mind that as long as they are not violent. I have however been violently assaulted, strangled, and nearly killed by my rapist and that’s not cool. If you rape me please don’t be so violent. I’m not going to report your need to blow your DNA in me, if you respect my boundaries. I have been raped 6 times.

I know that your Norvir or Cobicistat boosting your Protease Inhibitor (or in your Genvoya) will also provide a major boost to Viagra too.

In 2018 I tested positive on July 24 with a 4th generation antibody test. Confirmation test was Negative, and the second confirmation was also negative. Tested positive ultimately in September when they retested the sample done at the same time as the other two. (Was in a Research study) Ask your doctor for one of these. Indeed, they are also called HIV 1 RNA Test. These are accurate with less than a week of time after exposure.

I’m generally in agreement with what you all are saying but I want to make a further point that this iteration of San Francisco will not last. I won’t deny that the “scene” is on life support, in need of serious care to be sustained at a level we expect, and enjoy - especially in the fetishes we enjoy. San Francisco was able to be sustained miraculously before and during the pandemic, until yes - Mpx struck. But it wasn’t just that, it also was a large number of minor things that f’ed up everything: 1. Opportunities. Since the cost of living in the Bay Area remained high throughout the pandemic compared with other North American cities - many people, especially queer people working in Hospitality, Retail, Tourism, and Travel had hours cut or made substantially less money; ultimately choosing to move away. 2. Events…. And places to have them. It got boring. Many LGBT+ venues closed down permanently, from Watergarden to The Stud, and the rest remained shut down for a lot longer than anywhere else in the Western world. 3. Retirement. Quite a few longtime promoters and venue operators threw in the towel. Time to retire. All who is left need to step up to put in the work, or if time is not a possibility- provide oversight, and financial assistance to make it happen. If anyone has any good ideas, I am happy to help do some of the work on this. It takes a village quite a long time before results happen; and San Franciscans generally accept nothing but the best from the get-go. This is a town where first impressions make or break you. 4. Tourism to events we have doesn’t happen when we have few events. We have Folsom / Dore, we’d be anemic without it. Did anyone go tho the Castro Street Fair? Did Frameline happen this year? How was this past weekend with Halloween events? I honestly don’t know. What’s the draw for tourism when it is impossible to get here and then have little to do once here? Gay Tourism is a huge part of our hedonistic lifestyle and culture. San Francisco was the best sex tourism pilgrimage this side of the Mississippi, now maybe more like this side of the Sacramento River Delta. What is unfortunate is that our Queer nonprofits and City tourism agencies are not doing enough to stop the decline of Queer tourism, or marketing our assets like before. If, in 2024, the BOS expect us to rubber stamp their reelection efforts they are going to be in for a rude awakening. 5. AFFORDABILITY 55K in San Francisco left during the pandemic, but really, how many were queer? How many of us are forced to live outside of San Francisco due to high housing costs? How many times can you remember that “BART Ride of Fame” on a Monday Afternoon, sweaty and gross because it was 97° during the walk from your weekend mess to South Hayward, Walnut Creek BART; or worse, the trip from East Palo Alto - on University nonetheless - to sneak on Caltrain but hide in the bathroom from the fare inspectors, cause you lost your wallet (stolen) and had no way of getting back to SF, or possibly Oakland, and Uber wasn’t invented yet. Maybe this shit was unique to me, but the 55K number was also *only* unique to San Francisco. Hundreds of thousands of people left the Bay Area. Its too unaffordable for LGBT+ that were already here, and Generation Z doesn’t seem too willing to give SF a shot, save for some who don’t mind a good bit of work. 6. Crime. I moved from the westside of SF to live alone downtown and I have to say, it’s essentially a bit overblown. Lower Nob Hill gives one all of the downtown experience. In this area some affectionately call the Tenderloin annex, crime is unfortunate but rare; mostly limited to theft of property, not violent acts. Still, it could be better and safer. I tend to avoid the walk alone at night when I’m needing to go south of O’farrell and much of the TL East of Larkin to about Jones and McAllister. San Francisco has always been a boom and bust town, but each time people step up and start over. This has to happen or else we will have our own queer SF doom loop.

They must tread lightly and carefully with this kind of activity going forward. The constitution of California does protect the right to privacy, and this sort of activity is illegal under the CPRA if the user has opted out. If a California resident has opted out of having their data shared, this would be a blatant violation of the rights afforded to them by the California Privacy Rights Act, which is now fully in force. The Act, which was formerly known as California Proposition 24 (2020) specifies the types of information that we can block businesses from sharing, including everything from health, genetics, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, sex life, union membership, religion, philosophical beliefs, and also precise geolocation data. This law expanded the previous law, and went into effect on January 1, 2023, applying to personal data collected on or after January 1, 2022. The intentions of the Act, according to Wikipedia (because I am lazy) are to provide California residents with the right to: Know who is collecting their and their children's personal information, how it is being used, and to whom it is disclosed. Control the use of their personal information, including limiting the use of their sensitive personal information. Have access to their personal information and the ability to correct, delete, and transfer their personal information. Exercise their privacy rights through easily accessible self-serve tools. Exercise their privacy rights without being penalized. Hold businesses accountable for failing to take reasonable information security precautions. Benefit from businesses' use of their personal information. Have their privacy interests protected even as employees and independent contractors. California residents, take advantage of your CPRA rights! I routinely request that companies that track me, data brokers such as LexisNexis, and advertisers delete all of my personal information.

I had resistant shigella a few years back and it was the worst thing I’ve ever had to endure. 105° fever and no antibiotics were working. I almost died, and was rushed into the ER without wait. My immune system literally had no help. They tried several IV pouches of antibiotics and none of them worked. The antibiotic resistance testing in Petri dishes had little activity on the shigella strain. I was admitted for two days. The second time I had it, fighting it off was a little better. Miraculously I still had some T cells floating around with a memory of it.

Eros is closing up shop and moving out of the Castro. I’m foolishly optimistic. [think before following links] https://brokeassstuart.com/2021/11/15/after-30-years-sfs-only-gay-sex-club-is-moving-eros/

Never can go wrong with a Nasty Pig baseball cap. Discrete but very obvious for the right person…