If you see someone posting a photo of a sign at a furry convention that advertises HIV / STI testing while sounding offended, it's a queerphobic dogwhistle.
Spread this to your friends/families to inoculate them from bad memes.
https://soatok.blog/2024/09/30/why-are-furry-conventions-offering-hiv-testing-to-attendees/
@soatok Furry cons offering HIV testing seems like an indication of broken public health services.
Good on furcons to pick up the slack.
@lettosprey @soatok even with intact public health services in Europe, people don't get tested regularly because there is social stigma attached - I actually had my doc try to argue me out of it once, asking why I wanted to do that
if people are carried by momentum and the opportunity to be safer is *right there*, it's just great community service
@mmby Then the public health service is broken in that regard. We have drop-in clinics for free testing, that are not going to talk you out of it.
That isn't saying it is a bad thing that furry cons offer this anywhere, but it seems like a symptom that society isn't handling things well when they see a need to do it.
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