Local LGBTQ leaders and medical professionals gathered Friday to discuss frustrations with the response to monkeypox and the lack of vaccine doses.
and limited access to tests and vaccines. Tests are more accessible now, but health experts fear there aren’t enough vaccine dosesEvans, the Philadelphia consultant, has focused on the long-standing LGBTQ bar and restaurant scene as safe spaces for conversations that may be uncomfortable to have elsewhere. He’s shared informational emails with staff at several bars both to protect them and so they can serve as messengers to customers.
Craig van Baal recently blasted out an email through his LGBTQ organization, The Gables, warning the Philadelphia region to take the virus seriously, especially gay men living or vacationing at the Jersey Shore. He noted that men from New York City, the epicenter of the monkeypox outbreak in the United States, often visit there too.. The recent rise of monkeypox has brought back memories of friends he lost during the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s.
Matt Forrest, of Philadelphia, is aware of the comparisons with AIDS but said COVID-19 is a parallel that more closely“People don’t want another experience of life getting put on hold because we didn’t act quickly enough,” said Forrest, 34.
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