This is why I reacted with frustration when I saw the LGB Alliance, a British group most known for its opposition to modern transgender activism, this week release a statement calling for “all commercial sex venues, such as saunas, leather/fetish bars and clubs with dark rooms to be closed for a month.” It flies in the face of not only public health recommendations from actual infectious disease experts - who are cautioning calm and encouraging educational campaigns in the very venues the group seeks to close - and further stigmatizes gay and bisexual men at a time when, across the world, our rights are under assault.