At around 4 on Saturday morning, most gay bars in New York were closed, locked, and a steady stream of young and middle-class people
Older men, almost all of them in red shir, some stripped and dressed in their boxer underwear, found their way in the dark stairwell and entered the maze-like basement there, the decoration is best described as radiation-shelter chic.
They came to Paddles, one.
Chelsea's sex club is not ready to end their night.
They wander in the long slag
Block the corridor and exchange your eyes.
In the 40-year-old lounge, a bearded husky man sits on a black corrugated rubber bench with a smooth choruschested 20-
Some things, their meat shines in the pink neon lights and black lights.
A man in metal.
The black leather chest strap of the DingTalk strode towards the back room, connecting the room, a circle of men, glittering skin, sweating, hovering on the swing and looking.
Then, in the walk, a thin man wearing a black baseball cap, with affectionate eyes and nose, stretched out forward like a bow.
He stopped in front of a folding table between the two video screens where gay pornography was continuously played.
He took off his black leather jacket, wore a black muscle shirt, and bent his toned bicep.
He set a red danger-
The trash can is as casual as the plastic juice cans of Costco, and some bands are arranged-
Put a bowl of lollipops next to it and take out the syringe.
This is Dr and gay activist Demetre Daskalakis, who has spread the message that there is a new health threat in the city's gay population, where he is blocking it.
"Have you been vaccinated?
He asked with a smile and his voice was as warm as half
The naked man walked.
A new infection that can be spread casually.
A unique bacterial brain.
Casting a shadow over gay nightlife and dating scenes, men wonder if this is AIDS at the age of about 1981.
Since 2010, seven men have died in New York City, about the third of the confirmed cases.
In the past few months, the epidemic seems to be spreading at an accelerated pace.
It targets gay and bisexual men and no one knows exactly why.
The city's biggest hope of stopping the epidemic is to vaccinate as many people as possible.
Risk as much as possible and focus on those most dangerous people: those who often associate with others they meet in applications such as parties, bars, clubs and GrindrDr.
Don Weiss, the monitoring director of the city's infectious disease bureau, called it "Russian Roulette behavior" because "sooner or later, you will encounter this organism and be exposed.
"The Ministry of Health has achieved limited success in its own vaccination work in several gay bars.
Men who go out to party want to have a good time, but no one tells them that doing so can be prey to deadly diseases. Hence Dr.
Early Darth kalakis
The club crawled in the morning with a medical bag in hand.
Being a non-threatening gay man without a white coat would help.
The same is true of his compassion and sense of humor.
When the reporter sent him an email
The reply on his iPhone is immediate: "I will be in burkha :)”Every half-
About an hour later, Michael olito, the owner of the paddle, made it public.
Service statement: "Please go to the doctor if you haven't tried it yet. Demetre.
On one occasion, he added, "not a doctor. Demento, Dr. Demetre. ”Dr.
Daskalakis handed these people a consent form and asked the threshold question: "Is your illness more serious than a cold? ”“Will it hurt? ” they ask.
"I had more than 700 shots today and my injection worked really well," he said with a proud smile . ".
"Can I get it from having sex?
"Maybe," he said, "but not just because of sex.
You can get it from intimacy, like a kiss or a hug.
This is an incentive.
Most men checked their shirts at the door.
Some people checked their pants.
The conditions for injection are no better.
Stuttering at Lady Gaga "Pa-pa-pa-poker face, pa-pa-Poker Face . "
Daskalakis is needled on the arm with a strap-
Help them on their way.
On all the oars, people were happy to suck the lollipop he handed out as a reward. “Dr.
Demetre told me that everyone who was shot could save four others . "Aulito says.
"If he did 700 shots and he saved 2,800 people, that's an amazing number. ” Mr.
Both olito and his wife were vaccinated.
Peter DeMartino, 40, is the head of the AIDS organization of the AIDS/HIV services group at Va charlottsville.
He said he was so excited about finding health care at the sex club that he wanted to wake up his fellow travelers from Philadelphia and get him vaccinated as well.
"It's New York, right? ” Mr. DeMartino says.
"We know our population.
Immigration is not the right word.
But it's not a big deal to spend the weekend in New York.
If there is an outbreak in New York, how long before the 95 corridor goes up and down?
Freddy Messina, 38year-
The old event coordinator at bensenhurst, Brooklyn, said he got an injection from a doctor a week ago, but he was grateful that paddling was an option for people without insurance.
"I go out a lot," he said . "
"You don't need to have sex with someone to have a brain flow.
You go to the bar on Friday night and you are in contact with hundreds of men and you won't know.
You think, 'Oh, I'm hanging.
A bearded man sitting on a bench, an investment-
The bank asset manager, who declined to be named, said the outbreak would definitely affect his behavior.
"I have to put off kissing, which is usually meant to replace more aggressive or deeper intimacy," he said . ".
He watched others vaccinate and pondered, "it may be a convenient time," but was quickly distracted by a group of young men who wandered behind them and took off.
Since meeting in New York, a publicist has been dragged on for 13 years by his "close-to-one-wife" boyfriend. Y. U.
Refused to take off his jeans, sports coat, buttons
Wearing a shirt and boat shoes, he grabbed the consent form as if it was a note for him in the physical education class.
He studied it carefully and said that he and his companions had gone through the consent form as soon as possible to specifically paddle for a vaccine.
"We left a bar tonight and we prepared a flyer for the place," he said . ".
"There is a health crisis for gay men.
We don't know. it's an underground sex place.
He said that he was a friend of one of the dead people, very terrible.
"I think he just didn't wake up," the PR guy said . ".
"I thought, 'I will shoot for free.
The runny brain is inflammation around the lining of the spinal cord and brain.
Symptoms can appear so quickly, it looks normal
Fever, headache, stiff neck, rash
Victims often try to overcome the situation and ignore going to the doctor until it is too late.
Bacteria carry in the nose and mouth.
Although not as contagious as a cold or flu, it can be transmitted by kissing, sneezing, or sharing a spoon. (
It is also not good to share cigarettes, but there is a theory in the literature that this is not because of saliva exchange, but because smoking stimulates the mucosa and promotes bacterial invasion. )
The PR guy took off his jacket and pulled the shirt long enough to give a shot and then button it.
"How long is it?
He wants to know.
"It takes 7 to 10 days to take effect and provides immunity for up to five years," Dr.
Said dardakalakis.
People often ask him, "How big is my chance to get this?
He replied, "nothing . "
He explained that the idea was to vaccinate as many at-as possible-
Risk men as much as possible
Some gay men say they have experienced enough after coming out of the closet and fighting AIDS and equal rights and same-sex marriage.
"As one of the guys I vaccinated said, what will they think next? ’” Dr.
Political Commissar of dardakalakis.
"It could have chosen another social network," he said . "
"It chose homosexuality.
It's like a big dorm without walls.
He knew.
Dardakalakis has a main course that government officials do not have, and the city offers him free vaccines.
A week ago, he vaccinated the man at a family party in Brooklyn, and in a place where he didn't want to be revealed, the owner was wearing a platinum dress to change his moodblond nurse.
"The Ministry of Health likes that we're here --
"Love, Love," he said on the paddle . ".
So far, this fear has nothing to do with the AIDS epidemic, which has led to the fight to shut down bathhouses and street protests against local and national governments.
But for an Irish man in his 40 s with a beard, he met hipsters at the eastern country club, where the atmosphere was "cheering ", this moment reminds people that AIDS is called the grid in derogatory terms (Gay-
Related immune deficiency).
"I think this is the next narrative of H. I. V.
The Irishman said he left with a bicycle and a Venezuelan friend.
"There was a gay incident at a gay venue in New York City.
Another customer, 21. year-
The old art student of fashion square glasses said he had already felt a backlash from some straight people.
He offered a cooperation.
"They asked me if I had a runny head.
But there are some important differences.
Before the development of ARVs to control the virus, AIDS was considered the death penalty.
If found in time, the brain can be treated with antibiotics.
This vaccine prevents people from getting vaccinated and may reduce the ability of the carrier to spread the vaccine.
In 2006, the virus was first discovered by drug addicts in Brooklyn.
In that outbreak, 23 people were infected and 7 died.
After the city was vaccinated at the drug treatment center and the soup kitchen, there were threeyear lull.
There were 1 case in 2010, 4 cases in 2011, 13 cases in 2012, and 4 cases so far this year, all gay and bisexual men living in New York City.
Seven of the 22 people died. (
New York City officials say there are 23 cases of a man who lives elsewhere in New York but regularly visits New York City. )
The typical case is an African.
American men between the ages of 20 and 40, socially active, live in a block in Brooklyn: Bedford-
Swanson, Brownsville, Bushwick, Clinton Hill, Crown Heights, Downtown Brooklyn, Little Flying Elephant, East New York, outlook heights, and Williamsburg.
Half of them are black and 18% are Hispanic.
Often, they don't care about their sexuality, which makes it difficult for the health department to reach them.
There are 10 in Brooklyn, 7 in Manhattan, 2 in Queens and 2 in Bronx.
One person is homeless.
12 out of 22 H. I. V. -
This is a possible risk factor because the immune system is damaged.
The final confirmed case was February. 15.
Epidemiology are confused about why the recent outbreak is aimed at men and not women.
"We don't have any evidence that it's different in some kind of biology, we just know it's different," said Dr . "
Jay Varma, the city's deputy health commissioner for disease control.
"The concern is that it is largely limited to men who have sex with men.
So we don't understand why.
Last month, Brett Saad died in West Hollywood, California.
Lawyers have raised concerns about the spread of the epidemic to the West.
Los Angeles County health authorities and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have confirmed the flow-brain strain that killed him
Shaad is not the same as New York. he is unlikely to be exposed. But the C. D. C.
State health departments across the country have been asked to remain vigilant about cases of gay men.
If the brain is spread only through contact, you will think it will spread in the gay bar "no parking" in Washington Heights. After 1 a. m.
At a party on a popular Wednesday nightand some women)
Crowded together shoulder to shoulder. Underwear-clad go-
The boys jumped down from the bar, flashing their rockhard backsides.
The customer stuffed the money into the dancer's belt.
A dancer leads a well-dressed customer to a thigh dance behind the curtain.
Public hookah bags but plastic in the bar
A separate wrapper.
"I think it's a safe haven for people to come out and be themselves," said Romeo Romero, party promoter wearing gold chains.
"I don't want to be a party breaker, but we will announce: 'h. I. V.
Test around the corner.
So there are a lot of choices.
I don't think they are too worried about it, although it can be dangerous and harmful, they should be worried.
"In fact, the staggering number of men who don't park said they didn't know there was an outbreak of meningitis in New York.
"I'm scared right now, I'm shocked, I don't know," said Fabio Reyes, a 21-year-old chef assistant, after being told.
"He was also shocked," he added . " He was referring to the man standing next to him, Wilson corenner, 25, a waitress.
A positive sign is that the number of vaccinations in the city has risen sharply to 10,200 as of May 13.
"Our fingers crossed . "Varma said.
"One of the reasons why we can't be 100% confident is that there are a lot of gay pride activities coming up, there are a lot of people coming to the city and a lot of people interacting together, so we want to spend this time before we really celebrate controlling it.
"It's dawn on a paddle field on Saturday, although you won't know from the dark underground.
The asset manager walked out of a room in the back.
"I was told that my breath was too fresh," he said with ridicule.
He blinked at the man wearing a black muscle shirt and still held the syringe as if he had seen him for the first time.
"Are you a doctor?
"He said and stood up for his shot.