Cahill et al also emphasized the necessity for other
community-based HIV prevention interventions that combat
prejudice against MSM and transgender women.
Community-based prevention intervention programs
that assert the healthy formation of gay and transgender
identities are necessary. These investigators also recognized
the value of gay-affirming school-based interventions and
resiliency-focused social-marketing campaigns that have
already had a positive impact on health outcomes and should
be implemented on a broader scale to address anti-gay
stigma. One might hold out hope that, given the broadening
acceptance/tolerance of marriage equality, someday the
burden of homosexual stigma may also be removed along
with a social cascade of factors that relate to the negativity
of being infected with HIV