Pride Parades Should Go on Despite Monkeypox Concerns: WHO

A World Health Organization (WHO) adviser said that people should not change their plans to attend pride parades this month amid the increased circulation of monkeypox. “It’s important that people who want to go out and celebrate gay pride, LGBTQ+ pride, to continue to go and plan to do so,” said Andy Seale, a strategies adviser in the WHO Department of Global HIV, Hepatitis and Sexually Transmitted Infections Programs. WHO released public health guidance on monkeypox last week specifically for men who have sex with men. “Given this is not a gay disease, the transmission routes are common to everybody,” Seale said.