Migration, sexuality and HIV risk among Latino gay men in Canada: Building new social strategies for prevention
Bibliographic record
Abstract
T paper introduces the Cuentame! research, an academic/community collaboration, that investigates HIV vulnerability in the Latino LGBT community in Toronto, Canada. Our goal is to better understand their culture codes and ethos in order to formulate better social strategies for HIV prevention for this population. We interviewed 25 Spanish-speaking gay/bisexual/MSM in Toronto to explore how transnational relocation influences sexual expectations and risk practices. Study participants show a high level of awareness about HIV prevention, often before and always after migration. Their migration experiences are traversed by economic rationales, the embodied experiences of race, gender and culture as well as by sexual identity. Most subjects express narratives of empowered opportunity in distancing themselves from oppressive sexual regimes of their place of origin, but at the same time, many migrants trade their new found sense of social acceptance as gay for marginalized statuses defined by ethnicity and diminished social capital. Many are attracted to the sexual citizenship promised by the Canadian state, but for some, becoming racialized migrants occupying marginal social locations, creates potential for heightened HIV risk. A minority of interviewees, who arrive in Canada from privileged backgrounds and cosmopolitan gay scenes consider Canada to be not much different but may seek relationship rights or marriage with same sex partners. Need and desire to establish social and sexual connections in a new environment often characterized by economic vulnerability shape risk profiles that are, in turn, mediated by social capital and citizenship rights. Alberto Carneiro Barbosa Souza, J AIDS Clin Res 2013, 4:9 http://dx.doi.org/10.4172/2155-6113.S1.004
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.008 | 0.008 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".