Newsletter 20230403. Update on CRISPER HIV cure research, Gays Against Groomers in national news. Lots of vaccine news.
Twitter art post reorganized. Man hating feminist complains about penises being too big.
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CRISPR for HIV cure. Update.
Early in 2022 I did some reporting on CRISPR technology being used for a potential HIV cure. CRISPR is a new gene editing technology and the molecular tool would be to recognize and cut up the genetic material of HIV viruses.
Basically they are being super cautious with this research and they have treated one person starting in July 2022 and then after the treatment regime is over they will see if the HIV stays dormant. Sometime in 2023 we will know the results.
The articles don’t explain why only one patient is being test for the new cure. It might be that the treatment is fairly intensive and requires lots of work to do. However, I think a factor is that there has been a lot of concern about CRISPR being safe. Will it cut up genetic material it is not supposed to and could a few of the accidentally cut up cells become cancer cells. This article discussing the many applications of CRISPR to different diseases talks about some people having life improving results, but also mentions some have died. (This is a publication of MIT.)
CRISPR being used for therapy is totally new and so people are being cautious. The news has been the patient has tolerated the therapy well. So, the therapy itself didn’t make him really sick.
One of the issues raised in the article is that CRISPR cures are likely to be extremely expensive. I think though, if and when CRISPR approaches work, then there will start being a steady number of patients being treated, and then work will start of reducing the cost. It is likely to be the famous learning curve of technology.
CRISPR is a new biomolecular technology of the 21st century. I think we are going to find entirely new biomolecular technologies will give us new opportunities to cure diseases.
I think that vaccines will be really important to fight HIV, but we also will have to treat those who have become infected.
These are the two articles:
https://www.poz.com/article/researchers-study-crispr-gene-editing-cure-hiv
Wired is a magazine for a high-tech audience, but it is written for a general audience. Most high-tech persons don’t know that much about biology or molecular biology.
https://www.wired.com/story/a-bold-effort-to-cure-hiv-using-crispr/
Link to HIV & STD vaccine and cure page further in this newsletter.
This video comments about bisexuals.
I think the comment at about 2:30 by the person on the far left of the video is what I have observed about SOME bisexuals. I have met bisexuals with girlfriends also. They contact you on the app to see you after their date to get sex. I think bisexuals exist, but I also think some Gays claim to be bisexual as a means to cling to a shred of heterosexuality. Update: I notice some LGBTQXYZ moralist managed to get the video pulled. I am presuming it is some Alphabet scold.
Gays Against Groomers gets news coverage in Breitbart
I want it to be perfectly clear that I am reporting on this as a news item without endorsement. I review Breitbart daily as part of my research regarding cultural geography, landscape and race. This newsletter tries not to be ideological except being for Gays. (If I seem like I am handling this story as if it is radioactive, it is because it is.)
Regardless on how you feel about Breitbart or Gays Against Groomers this is an important news item. Breitbart is essentially the conservative newspaper representing the opinion of Trump supporters who are the political opposition to the Democrats.
Breitbart and other conservative forces have realized that a large fraction of Gays don’t support either gender or queer ideology and some aspects of trans extremism. So, this is interesting as a development in that there is a developing connection between some elements in the Gay community and the conservative movement.
It is also important to see that Breitbart is perhaps moving to form a populist conservative movement with a space for Gays and not necessarily in alignment with anti-Gay religious elements.
One of their important columnists for several years was a very out Gay named Milo Yiannopoulos whose career crashed about five years ago. I regarded him as somewhat inane. However, Yiannopoulos shows that Breitbart isn’t dogmatically anti-Gay.
Google’s BARD AI software is also worthless for Gay art research.
It didn’t scold me like ChatGPT, but it tended to get a lot of irrelevant material. If you are doing something original in any field, I suspect that these AI programs can’t really help you. The derive their understanding from the web as it is now, or has been, and if what you have is new, then it is at a loss.
Basically, these Chat programs just regurgitate corporate speak type stuff.
List of Twitter artists reorganized and improved
There were nine artists that were marginal in terms of not being that focused on Gay art or not producing much and so I moved them out of the main list into a secondary list.
Further I got rid of a few duplicates. Further I added in some new artists.
When I get time, I will be going over the other lists of artists. I am also thinking of making it easier to find an artist a reader is interested but I am still constrained to be working within a frame work of blog posts.
Organized all the STD and HIV vaccine and cure news and got this page updated.
I reorganized it so all the STD info and the links to the scientific articles are in one place. Even though the link isn’t changed, there is cure information included now.
I have been posting items in newsletters, but hadn’t kept this page up. It was poorly organized also. You can now read it with the most current news being the first item in each section. Also, a section was added for syphilis vaccine efforts.
I also deleted the HIV vaccine page, since it is now superseded by this HIV and STD vaccine and cure page.
Moderna mRNA vaccine pipeline. Forty-three vaccines being developed.
I have mentioned this list before, I thought I should point out that one of the vaccines, listed as HSV Vaccine is for Herpes Simplex Virus.
Another is a vaccine for Zika which is at Phase 2 which is a virus that also can be a STD. Mpox won’t be the last virus to leave the tropical world and be a menace to Gays, though it isn’t clear that Zika is of particular menace to Gays more than the fact that we have more sexual activity than straights.
There are currently 43 vaccines being developed. I am guessing that the entire mRNA research and development capacity of Moderna is being utilized. The situation is that mRNA technology has a potential for many, many viruses and medical issues.
There are mRNA vaccines for cancer being developed (Five of them. Intratumoral Immuno-Oncology). There are medical problems like Ornithine transcarbamlyase deficiency (OTC) which I don’t know what it is, but there are six treatments for what they call, “Systemic Intracellular Therapeutics.”
It might be that the STDs you don’t see on this list are just not there because not everything can be worked on at once. Though as products reach the market, there will be cash flow and perhaps even more research than is being done now, can be done.
https://www.modernatx.com/research/product-pipeline
How is a vaccine a Gay issue when it isn’t a vaccine for an STD?
The demographic which sees mRNA vaccines as being terrible, a conspiracy, etc. is the same demographic which is frequently anti-Gay. Not every person who is anti-Gay is anti-vaccine, and not every anti-vaxxer is anti-Gay, but there is a very large overlap between the groups.
If Gays get the anti-cancer vaccine for example, and anti-Gay anti-vaxxers don’t, there will be a differential in survivor rates. Or to be blunt, a lot more anti-Gay anti-vaxxers will drop dead than Gays.
There is the possibility that the anti-vaxxer movement might collapse and then there will be a rush for vaccination and a Gay person might then as a consequence have to be waiting for vaccination. So, get all the possible vaccinations that are available now, don’t delay, and get vaccinated as soon as new vaccines come out.
Whatever you do, don’t call it man-hating. I am so glad I am Gay.
This is a big part of modern feminism. This is why the LGB isn’t likely to be workable alliance. Most Lesbians will be fine, but when you work with groups, you will get Lesbians with attitudes like this person, who I am not saying is a Lesbian, and who wouldn’t dare vent on the general public, but will feel quite comfortable expressing hostile attitudes towards a group of Gay men to establish some feminist credentials.
Evidently a lot of women are loving this video. It is no wonder that the rate of marriage in the United States is declining. The preview of TikTok is strange on Substack. Just click on the following.
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Token overweight person added so Naked Boys Singing isn’t denounced by the LGBTQXYZ scolds.
It is tough to lose weight and redesign your eating habits and life. So always be considerate of overweight people. However, being overweight is bad for your health, whether it is flat feet, heart problems, diabetes, etc.
Trying to make obesity something to celebrate is an attack on the health of the Gay community.
https://instinctmagazine.com/dom-giovanni-talks-naked-boys-singing-body-positivity/
R/gaytransguys
The reality of being a supposed Gay transman is that you attract men you are exclusively interested in you for heterosexual sex. This is the endlessly repeating complaint of “Gay” transmen.
https://www.reddit.com/r/gaytransguys/comments/12596k0/isolated/
“Gay” Trans “man” is uncomfortable when boyfriend goes down on “his” vagina.
https://www.reddit.com/r/gaytransguys/comments/125wn8j/uncomfy_w_my_bf_going_down_on_me/
The concept of informed consent, a bedrock principle of ethics, is lacking with some transmen as revealed with this question and some of the comments. Some do make sure it is in their profile, because they realize that hiding this info doesn’t work well. Also, it shows them as basically straight women trying a Gay app. For example, this comment, “I personally don’t use Grindr anymore, since it is really only a hookup app these days.” Was Grindr ever anything but a hookup app.
This transman wants help in fooling themselves that this guy basically will say what the transman wants to hear to get sex.
https://www.reddit.com/r/gaytransguys/comments/12915se/ill_see_you_as_whatever_you_want_me_to/