Tuesday, October 25, 2011

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Panel recommends that 11- and 12-year-old boys get the HPV vaccine; now given to girls

By Associated Press - October 25, 2011

ATLANTA -- A government panel wants young boys as well as girls to get the controversial HPV vaccine, in part to prevent them from spreading the sexually transmitted virus to girls.

The HPV vaccine has been recommended for young girls to protect them against cervical cancer and genital warts for the last five years. But the vaccine has been slow to catch on - only about a third of adolescent girls have gotten all three shots.

Experts say the HPV vaccine could protect boys against genital warts and some kinds of cancers. But they also say vaccinating 11- and 12-year old boys could help prevent them from spreading the human papilloma virus to girls.

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices made the recommendation Tuesday in a unanimous vote. Federal health officials usually adopt what the panel says and asks doctors and patients to follow the recommendations.

The vaccine has been licensed for use in boys for two years but Tuesday's vote was the first to strongly recommend routine vaccination. Officials acknowledged the disappointing rate in girls encouraged them to take a new, hard look.

But if the expensive HPV vaccine has been a tough sell to the parents of girls, it may be even tougher for boys.

Last year, just 49 percent of adolescent girls had gotten at least the first of the recommended three HPV shots. Only a third had gotten all three doses.

"Pretty terrible," said Dr. Anne Schuchat, a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention administrator who oversees the agency's immunization programs.

She attributed the low rates for girls to confusion or misunderstanding by parents that they can wait until their daughter becomes sexually active. It only works if the shots are given before a girl begins having sex.

The vaccine is approved for use in boys and girls ages 9 to 26; but it is usually given to 11- and 12-year olds when they are scheduled to get other vaccines.

The committee also recommended the vaccination for males 13 through 21 years who have not been vaccinated previously or who have not completed the three-dose series.

Tuesday's vote follows recent studies that indicate the vaccine prevents anal cancer in males. A study that focused on gay men found it to be 75 percent effective. But while anal cancer has been increasing, it's still a fairly rare cancer in males, with only about 7,000 cases in the U.S. each year that are tied to the strains of viruses targeted in the HPV vaccine. In contrast, about vaccine-preventable 15,000 cervical cancers occur annually.

Some feel it's unlikely that most families will agree to get their sons vaccinated primarily to protect girls. The threat of genital warts hasn't been persuasive yet, either: Some data suggest that less than 1.5 percent of adolescent males have gotten the vaccine.

Its use against anal cancer may not be much of a selling point, said Dr. Ranit Mishori, a family practice doctor in Washington, D.C., and an assistant professor at the Georgetown University School of Medicine.

Some parents may say "'Why are you vaccinating my son against anal cancer? He's not gay! He's not ever going to be gay!' I can see that will come up," said Mishori, who supports the committee's recommendation.

There are two vaccines against HPV, but Tuesday's vote applies only to Merck & Co.'s Gardasil, which costs $130 a dose. The other vaccine wasn't tested for males.

An estimated 50 percent to 80 percent of men and women are infected with HPV in their lifetimes, although most clear the infection without developing symptoms or illness, according to the CDC.
Take Action:
  • Boycott Bill O'Reilly and FOX News and their advertisers. Bill discussed a French commercial by McDonalds that was meant to show that McDonalds is Gay Friendly. Bill said what is next? Is McDonalds going to be Al-Qaida friendly as well? Imagine - Bill O'Reilly compares Gays to Al-Qaida! Further, Boycott Fox's Owner "Rupert Murcoch" and get him thrown in jail for illegal - political donations, corruption, greed, bribery, hacking!
  • Boycott Target, Best Buy, Gold's Gym - for donating money towards anti-gay political candidates/organizations. Update: (12/26/2010): Target is continuing to donate to anti-gay groups/causes/politicians. Update 03/08/11 - Lady Gaga Ends Target Partnership, Reportedly Over Target's Poor LGBT Stance. Update 3/25/2010 - Target displays their hypocrisy and Sues California Gay Rights Group for Lobbying Outside Stores. Target is attempting to block the LGBT right of free speech! STOP SHOPPING AT TARGET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Update 4/8/2011: Target lost its case to stop the LGBT from canvassing in front of their stores. A huge PR Disaster for TARGET! Perhaps Target should go out of business as they betrayed their investers and customer base. Target contributed massive funds to a politician who would like to exterminate gays. Now, Target can not stop us from Boycotting them, nor picketing, nor talking to customers near their stores; although, Target allows a anti-gay company such as the Salvation Army to stand outside their door and speak with customers and raise money. Isn't this a double standard?
  • End DOMA (Defense of Marriage Act). Prevents Federal employees and Gays in the Military from gaining equal benefits. Prevents Gay Partners from gaining equal benefits.
  • Pass a LGBT friendly ENDA (Employee Non-Discrimination Act). ENDA would prevent employment discrimination of LGBT workforce.
  • Boycott Salvation Army as they will not hire Gays! "DO NOT DONATE TO THEM."
  • BOYCOTT "Chick-fil-a" for donating money to anti-gay groups.
  • BOYCOTT KOCH INDUSTRIES PRODUCTS- to include their products: Angel Soft toilet paper / Brawny paper towels / Dixie plates, bowls, napkins & cups / Mardi Gras napkins and towels / Quilted Northern toilet paper / Soft 'n Gentle toilet paper / Sparkle napkins / Vanity fair napkins / Zee napkins / Georgia-Pacific paper products & envelopes / All Georgia-Pacific lumber & building products (INVISTA Products) / Lycra / Stainmaster Carpet. The billionaire - Koch brothers are ultra republican - tea bag founders/supporters that do not support causes of the LGBT community.
  • Boycott WALMART - The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force criticized Wal-Mart for denying employee benefits to same-s-x partners and for failing to prohibit discrimination based on gender identity. By comparison, the group said two other chain stores with a strong presence in New York, Costco and Walgreens, did much better.
  • "Tune Out Trump", Boycott all Trump Hotel, casinos, holdings, The Apprentice and NBC Network! At CPAC, Trump said he is considering a run for president as a Republican. In a interview with the Des Moines Register, Trump added that he opposes all forms of legal recognition for gay couples, not just marriage. "They should not be able to marry," he said. So why does NBC keep the Apprentice when Donald Trump has stated he may run for president? After making racist remarks about Obama and recv'g public backlash, Trump decided not to run for president after NBC renewed his awful TV Show. How can NBC re-new the clown's show after he pulled such hateful shenanigans?
  • Boycott Georgia for Execution of Troy Davis @ 11:08 EST, Sep 21, 2011:
    Former US President and Former GA Gov. Jimmy Carter felt that TROY DAVIS should not be executed and deserved a re-trial. The Former Director of the FBI felt that TROY DAVIS Was Not Guilty! Do not drive through Goergia as it is dangerous. Do not fly via Atlanta. For your safety -Do not travel to GA. TELL YOUR COMPANY NOT TO PARTICIPATE IN A CONVENTION IN GA! "Georgia Executes Innocent People!"

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Sudden pressure to get "gay married"
By Rose Arce - CNN - October 25, 2011

CNN) -- I am reminded each day I park my car that the pressure will never subside. A billboard from a storage company cries out to couples tying the knot: "IF YOU DON'T LIKE GAY MARRIAGE, DON'T GET GAY MARRIED."

It's not the political message that's killing me. It's the marital call to arms.

The pressure began on a subway platform the day our daughter Luna, 6, and her best friend, Jackie, 7, saw a newspaper with drawings of double brides and double grooms. The state of New York had saddled same-sex couples with the same stress long available to everyone else: the pressure to marry. And they were starting with our kids.

Jackie to Luna: Are your mommies going to get gay married?

Luna: Mama, are the mamas getting gay married?

Me: (Silence)
 
Luna: Don't get gay married because I don't want to be the flower girl.

Jackie: You don't have to go. You can do a sleepover at my house.
 
Luna (eyebrows gathered, arms crossed): Mama, can you please marry Mami so I can do a sleepover at Jackie's house?

The biggest life question facing my partner, Mafe (Maria Fernanda or Mah-Feh) and me boils down to this: Does Luna get a sleepover at Jackie's house?

Mafe called me while I was on a reporting trip for CNN to tell me the New York State Legislature had voted to allow gays to marry. I reminded her she has been saying she wouldn't marry me for the last 10 years.

"That's not the point," she said. "It's big news."

It was big news, but I'm a journalist who distances herself from debate on any issue that requires my objectivity. Vermont granted civil unions, New Jersey offered domestic partnerships, Massachusetts granted marriage, people in dozens more states defined marriage as a union between a man and a woman. Even if I had taken any of this personally, racing to some other state to get hitched seemed more like activism than a wedding. Why would I get married in Massachusetts if I live in New York?

The news came home when New York's politicians made this burning issue a nonissue, just by letting the marriages take place. My heterosexual neighbors invited us to the Gay Pride March so they could mark the occasion. I told them I don't participate in political marches. So they called me a bore and went alone!

One lesbian couple asked if we wanted to marry at City Hall with a big group of couples. Uh, nope. We couldn't go more than a day without someone asking: "When's the wedding?" By October, nearly 2,000 gays and lesbians had married in New York City alone and the press had stopped covering it altogether. The wedding announcements became mundane.

Marriage rates overall are sliding even as divorce is on the rise. This latest development was about a civil contract, not a personal, emotional or religious commitment that people are free to choose.

We figured the whole thing would blow over. We asked ourselves: "What's the need?" We had always told Luna we were married anyhow, even though we were domestic partners. Our union had been stamped 10 years ago by a notary public at a Chase Bank, then certified by a city employee who also issued dog licenses and other official paperwork.

We still met and fell in love, owned a home and had a child who didn't understand or care that there was opposition to gays. We enjoyed the support of our families despite the stereotype that Latinos are traditional and family-centric, and therefore homophobic. My family of Peruvian immigrants accept my being gay mostly because Mafe is my partner. The day I told my mother I was getting pregnant using a sperm donor, she cried, said she wished I'd done it in the "regular" (her word) way, then she asked if she could come for the birth! Mafe's sister jokingly calls me sister-in-law.
 
Mafe is from Colombia, where the Constitutional Court ordered Congress in July to legalize the right to marry for gays. Colombia's gay couples will likely be able to legally marry at the federal level before gay couples can in the United States.

Over the years, not being able to marry has mostly cost us money -- for wills and health care proxies and separate health insurance policies, because domestic partners pay steep federal taxes if they insure each other. To this day we have less money in our child's college fund than we spent on her second-parent adoption -- and she is 6. We didn't really think much of it. Money is not life.

But now that we can marry, we ask ourselves, "Isn't this what every Latina wants? Marriage and kids?" Since we're two Latinas, shouldn't we want it doubly so?
 
Enter the home of any older Latino couple and there it is on the wall, the massive wedding photo in the gaudy silver frame. It's in the space where some families put graduation pictures and wood plaques from the Elks Club. It is the trophy photo, the one that sets the stage for the arm-sized portrait of the grandchildren in the frilly white communion dresses. Neither Mafe nor I had been able to deliver. Our families have had to settle for enormous portraits of Luna, who owns the wall alone like some kind of smiling orphan, even though she has double the moms.

Neither of us had romantic notions of an anticlimactic public ceremony with two white dresses and thousands of dollars of finger food and gifts. We didn't think our friends would care. But boy did they. Our Facebook pages lit up. The Latinos lobbied for a fiesta.
 
Oddly, Latinos are not as family oriented as we might believe. Latinos are less likely to be married than other white people and about as likely to get divorced. And, between 1990 and 2005, the census showed the number of single moms rising 25% in the overall population, but 102% among Latinas. On federal tax forms, I'm the bad Latina. La Madre Soltera (the single mom) whose children, statistically speaking, face every possible social malady. But the truth is my partner and I are the model Latinas if you forget the double Mami business -- a solid two-parent household with a lifetime commitment.
 
In some ways, any marriage in New York wouldn't be much more than a paper marriage because it wouldn't be recognized by the federal government. We would have a tad more security, but a state marriage wouldn't get us around federal gift taxes or affect immigration and Social Security survivor benefits or give us back the money we already spent on a second-parent adoption. We would win the right to file joint state taxes, which could increase the taxes we pay! This state marriage business is more like a half-marriage. It still feels more like an unfolding story than our drama in real-life.
 
So this is the part where you expect me to launch into a thing about romance and ritual right? But I don't love Mafe for the benefit of anybody else. I love her because she's funny and likes a lot of the same things I do. She is honest and blunt and caring. She not only shares my Latino background, but also speaks to me in Spanish and says all the right things. We make a daily decision to commit. We walk through life as a family, not down an aisle on public display.

Maybe back in 2001, flush with new love, we would have rushed to marry. Today, we pursue simple happiness and security more than the words to explain to Luna what she already knows -- we are together. We asked her if she wanted us to marry. She gave us that look little kids give that says: "You figure this one out on your own."

The only big couples party we've ever had was a rocking baby shower thrown by the daddies-to-be, the guy who helped us make Luna and his partner. It was a celebration of what's possible, punctuated by loud salsa music, greasy barbecue, a fantastic drag queen and lots of frilly mini-clothes. There were also flowered hair bands and tiny earrings to remind us that the babies of gay Latinos are still Latino. We all wore T-shirts that said "Luna" because she is really what our marriage is about. The party reflected the reality of our lives; everyone we know loves our family as is. So maybe that alone deserves a party. Don't know.

How do we even broach that question post-child, post-mortgage, with a stack of paperwork and a 10-year anniversary hitting on November 10? Or is it now as simple as sitting down with Mafe to consider the question: "Should we let Luna do a sleepover at Jackie's house?"
Every gay and lesbian person who has been lucky enough to survive the turmoil of growing up is a survivor. Survivors always have an obligation to those who will face the same challenges."

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