We don't hear much about this aspect of the epidemic, mostly because the two communities most directly affected by it - the black and gay communities - have spent the better part of two decades eyeing each other through a haze of denial or studied disinterest. According to the Centers for Disease Control, one-third of young urban black men who have sex with men in this country are H.I.V.-positive, and 90 percent of those are unaware of their infection. in black men is homosexual sex (some of which takes place in prison, where blacks disproportionately outnumber whites). While intravenous drug use is a large part of the problem, experts say that the leading cause of H.I.V.
Wallace ticks off the grim statistics: blacks make up only 12 percent of the population in America, but they account for half of all new reported H.I.V. And while Flex now offers baskets of condoms and lubricant, Wallace says that many of the club's patrons still don't use them. Today, while there are black men who are openly gay, it seems that the majority of those having sex with men still lead secret lives, products of a black culture that deems masculinity and fatherhood as a black man's primary responsibility - and homosexuality as a white man's perversion. Wallace and the other black men who frequented Flex in the early 80's worried just about being spotted walking in the front door. He was 22 then, and AIDS seemed to kill only gay white men in San Francisco and New York. Twenty years ago, Wallace came here for fun. Next to him on the bed are a dozen unopened condoms and several oral H.I.V.-testing kits. I eventually find him sitting alone on a twin-size bed in a small room on the main floor. I go to Flex one night to meet Ricardo Wallace, an African-American outreach worker for the AIDS Task Force of Cleveland who comes here twice a month to test men for H.I.V. (Flex recently shut its doors temporarily while it relocates.) Flex is on the East Side, and it serves a mostly black and Hispanic clientele, many of whom don't consider themselves gay. On the city's predominantly white West Side, Club Cleveland - which opened in 1965 and recently settled into a modern 15,000-square-foot space - attracts many white and openly gay men. In small rooms nearby, some men are having sex. A naked black man reclines on a sling in a room called ''the dungeon play area.'' Along a hallway lined with lockers, black men eye each other as they walk by in towels. In the basement, the mood is different: the TV's are tuned to porn, and the dimly lighted hallways buzz with sexual energy.
In the common area, on the main floor, men in towels lounge on couches and watch CNN on big-screen TV's.
#YOUNG SEXY NBA LIVE 2003 FREE#
There's a large gym with free weights and exercise machines on the third floor. Yea and thanks so much for letting me use them! Demo will hopefully be out maybe Wednesday or Thursday of this upcoming week!Īnytime man and feel free to use whatever jerseys I put out thereĪwe sweet and can do you have a facebook or skype? i want to ask you something its about the jerseys.In its upper stories, the Flex bathhouse in Cleveland feels like a squash club for backslapping businessmen. Sweet man Ill be looking forward to it and its nice to see these jerseys being put to use just gotta finish some more faces and BOOM!
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Yes i can add them to the next update im very close to being done with the demo.
#YOUNG SEXY NBA LIVE 2003 MOD#
Yea man dont worry about cfs at all for mod like this since its high school and not every player is nba/college d1 quality however do give cfs to the currently hot HS prospect in the nation such as seventh woods, trevor dunbar, and marcus lovette jrītw do you think you can add the adidas nations teams, Nike hoops summit teams, Mcdonalds team and Jordan Brand team too? Maybe like a separate roster cus I have all the jerseys and courts in the links I gave you Yes he will be on the BallisLife All-American team! Due to me doing this mod pretty much myself most people will have created player face bases.
StompTheCourt wrote:Will Thon maker be in this mod People i want to thank for letting me use or help me with this mod!Ĭode: Select all dwadeflash03 (AAU Team Jerseys)īigh0rt (T-Shirts and Shorts Practice Uniforms)ġ7U ( Only teams for now) 26 Team's Total This is an overview of AAU Basketball for some of you guys who do not know what it is!