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- HIV transmission
- safer sex
- harm reduction (safer drug use)
- service delivery values
- communication skills in service delivery
- conducting outreach in public sex environments
Sometimes organizations want to provide training to their staff or management on HIV in the work environment. They may have a staff member who has disclosed that they have HIV, or that someone in their family is HIV-positive. They may have staff that experience discrimination and harassment from other staff due to their HIV status or sexuality.
Staff, with the help of volunteers, provide information, educational resources, referrals to community agencies, and free condoms and water-based lubricant to men in spaces where they meet to socialize and have sex. These include bars and dance clubs, bathhouses, other commercial sex establishments, and public parks.
We develop brochures, posters and other sexual health materials on a variety of issues facing gay and bisexual men. These have included materials for men having casual sex with other men, men who are dating or in a relationship, men who are thinking about getting an HIV test, young gay and bisexual men, and others.
Our posters and other materials can be found in gay community venues in Toronto on the ACT Information Boards. Please feel free to have a look and take some copies for yourself and your friends! You can also pick up materials at ACT.
If you are from a group or organization that would like to order bulk copies, please contact ACT’s Community Information Librarian by email or by phone at 416-340-8484 ext. 223.
We provide consultation services to other social service organizations, individuals, funding bodies, government representatives, researchers, community businesses etc.
People tend to come to us for consultation on issues impacting gay and bisexual men: their health, sexuality, and sexual safety. Individuals also come to us for consultation about their own risk for HIV and other sexually transmitted infections, strategies for maintaining sexual safety, questions about same-gender sex, and sexuality.
We provide confidential and anonymous consultation, and respond to requests received via telephone, email, in person at ACT and out in the community.
A large portion of our work is conducted in partnership with other individuals and organizations working towards mutually identified and compatible goals. We are always interested to develop relationships with other service providers, individuals, and communities.
Gay and bisexual men, other men who are homosexually-active but do not identify as gay or bisexual, and people living with HIV, continue to experience discrimination due to their sexual identity, sexual behaviour, and HIV status.
ACT’s Gay Men’s Community Education and Outreach Programs seek to improve the social conditions in which gay and bisexual men live. We recognize that the social context in which men live has a significant impact on the choices they can (or cannot) make in relation to their sexuality and sexual behaviour. In addition, the systems that determine the availability (or lack thereof) of resources for programs that support gay and bisexual men and their communities have been an on-going focus of our work.
We do this work in many ways in an effort to improve both the social and community climate in which men have sex. We also work to improve the ways in which government, research, and other health-related systems respond to gay and bisexual men, and people living with HIV.
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