The average gay man leaves San Francisco after only four years, according to a San Francisco Department of Public Health survey; sex here involves a bigger risk of contracting HIV than most places; and many gay men say the community, if it is more than a population mass, is unwelcoming. That isolation can lead to depression, which itself can lead to substance use and abuse and risky sexual behavior…

A health department phone survey from 2001, the most current data, estimated that 13.5 percent of gay men had lived here less than a year.

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This queer lasted almost two years before running.