christian grantham
Christian Grantham was a student activist in the late 90s and later was a consultant to domestic policy forums for the Clinton Administration as well as events for HRC and GLAAD.
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February 14, 2005

The New York Times is reporting that the man at the center of a possible new strain of HIV met some of his victims through an "unnamed web site."

It was much the same at other sites. For example, the new strain of the virus, which one Web log labeled "H.I.V. 2.0," attracted little interest at Gay.com. The site, which maintains more than four million dating profiles and has about 30,000 users online at any given time, manages dozens of chat rooms. An academic study that surveyed about 3,000 of the site's users in 2002 found that 84 percent had met sex partners online, and that these users were 6 percent more likely to have unprotected anal sex than those who met their partners offline.

At Gay.com, the topic of AIDS rarely came up. In one of the Brooklyn discussions yesterday, about 50 men lurked and flirted, offering opportunities to meet, as advertisements for gay video sites repeatedly interrupted. In more than three hours of online conversation, the new strain of H.I.V. was not mentioned once.
[Gay Users of Internet Play Down Concerns Over New Strain of AIDS - New York Times - 02-14-05]