About the Summit

Six Core Principles

• Replace the HIV-centric paradigm of health advocacy for gay men with holistic models that integrate (but do not default to) HIV
  
  
• Rethink the crisis paradigm of HIV work and embrace contemporary understandings, meanings, and implications of HIV for gay men of all colors & classes
  
  
• Challenge deficit-based models for work with gay men and replace them with asset-based approaches
  
  
• Strategically and politically confront structural forces challenging the well-being of gay & bi men
  
  
• Embrace a "big tent" vision of community, respecting diverse ways of organizing sex and relationships among gay men: shame and guilt are the health hazards, rather than specific sex practices and sex cultures
  
  
• Launch only efforts that are neither overtly or covertly sanitizing, sanctimonious or moralistic