And second, maybe a lot of people just assumed – as we did – that the Ang Lee classic starring the late Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal would yet again take top honors, so they didn’t bother to actually vote for it.īut just maybe there was something else at work here: the current gay zeitgeist. First, it’s very likely that the ultimate winner (a great little indie film) has passionate fans who made a concerted effort to get out the vote.
Several factors may have weighed into this outcome.
We double-checked the numbers, it got beat out by three votes. Then we announced the top 10 on our Facebook page in alphabetical order and let you vote one last time to decide the top 10 order.Īnd surprise, Brokeback Mountain was not the number one movie. So, after voting closed we sorted through the nearly 35,000 nominations (representing over 600 individual film titles) to identify your top 100 favorite gay films. And we wanted to break out gay documentaries onto their own list (You’ll find the Top 25 Greatest Gay Documentaries results here.) We figured there were finally enough quality gay films to justify the expansion. We also wanted to expand our list to 100 from the top 50 we had done previously. We wanted to see how your list of favorites had changed. We conducted a similar poll several years ago, but a lot has happened culturally since then, and a number of worthy movies of gay interest have been released. A few weeks ago we asked readers to submit up to ten of their favorite films by write-in vote. Frankly, one that surprised the hell out of us here.īut before we get to that, an introduction. This list of the Top 100 Greatest Gay Movies is probably going to generate some howls of protest thanks to a rather major upset in the rankings. There’s a major upset in the rankings!īrace yourselves. Findings suggest the need for more targeted, culturally congruent PrEP dissemination strategies and PrEP prescription policies that acknowledge the various social locations and ecologies in which young Black gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men reside.Our readers name their favorite gay films. The second focused on the impact of participants’ social locations and perceptions of PrEP users based on their PrEP knowledge.
The first centred on the ineffectiveness of institutions in disseminating PrEP information to participants. Our analysis revealed two interrelated barriers to PrEP knowledge and uptake. race, sexual orientation), interacted with individual, interpersonal and community contexts to shape their understanding. Intersectionality and the social ecological model allowed us to explore how social locations (e.g. We interviewed twenty-two young men and used a constructivist grounded theory approach to qualitatively analyse these young men’s PrEP knowledge. While research has explored the factors associated with their higher HIV exposure and the efficacy of STI/HIV prevention programmes, there remains a paucity of research on their knowledge of HIV prevention strategies such as PrEP. Despite significant advances in the HIV treatment and prevention landscape such as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), young Black-Canadian gay, bisexual and other sexual minority men continue to experience disproportionately high rates of HIV infection.