A few weeks ago, I mentioned that Guide Magazine's Michael Amino interviewed me about my work on Gay Men's Health. They even set up a photo shoot with the lovely Craig Seymour. Well, the article is up! Here's a taste:

Hoppe puts that knowledge to good use. Tens of thousands of people read his blog at trevorhoppe.com. Last year, he published Beyond Masculinity: Essays by Queer Men on Gender and Politics, part audio book, part blog, and part anthology -- all online and all free.

He describes his newest project, The Bottom Monologues, as a "stigma intervention." He has collected stories online about bottoming to be part of a future performance.

"As a bottom myself," he says, "I understand that many gay men want me to feel bad about that."

The stories included in The Bottom Monologues are about creating a method for discussion that's fun and exciting and able to reach a number of people who might not otherwise be open to frank discussions of sexuality.

His academic work fuels this dialogue. The gay men's health movement, he says, offers a unique combination of activism, politics, and academic research. He is simultaneously working on a paper for an academic journal about "bottom identity" and how public health messages affect sexual behavior.

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