#71 Poz&Proud
Poz&Proud, the organization for hiv-positive gay and queer men and part of the Hiv Vereniging, will navigate the 2023 Canal Parade with the slogan ‘Sexpress Yourself’. Our boat is a plea to foreground pleasure, not fear in all of our sex lives. Since 2012 it’s been established fact that a person with hiv who is […]
Poz&Proud, the organization for hiv-positive gay and queer men and part of the Hiv Vereniging, will navigate the 2023 Canal Parade with the slogan ‘Sexpress Yourself’. Our boat is a plea to foreground pleasure, not fear in all of our sex lives. Since 2012 it’s been established fact that a person with hiv who is succesfully treated, and thus is undetectable, is not able to pass on the virus to others. As a result, people without hiv don’t have to fear getting the virus from hiv-positive people, and people with hiv can more openly and freely enjoy their sex life.
We hope that the fact that Undetectable truly is Untransmittable (u=u). That, apart from using condoms, there’s now multiple ways to have safer sex, such as PrEP and Treatment as Prevention (TasP). That way we hope both people with and without hiv can more fully relish their sex life, and no one has to be excluded based on their hiv-status.
Our message therefore is: include us in your sex life, and it will be all the better for it! That’s why Poz&Proud will take the spectators between the sheets with our bed-boat. Shagging, dancing, functional nudity and a very sexy font will all come together to make explicit that you better make love than fear!
