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The Hugh Hewitt Show. The Nation. The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan. In another video from Dave Cullen, Truvada user and bestselling author, he addresses the anticipated backlash from Fox News and Limbaugh when PrEP drugs are more widely used: The idea that gay sex requires more justification than straight sex is deeply embedded in the culture – even within gay culture. Two other themes have emerged as well in talking about this with my fellow homos. The first is that taking a Truvada pill means, for some, the taking of an HIV pill. And being HIV-negative is sometimes defined as not having to take an HIV pill. So taking Truvada as a preventative means, for some, crossing the HIV divide, when they have spent an entire adult life-time keeping their distance from HIV culture.
This makes no logical sense – taking Truvada as well as using safer sex helps you stay free of HIV more effectively than any other method (think of it as combination therapy). But it does make psychological sense for the countless who remain traumatized by the memory of the plague.