“The LGBTQ+ Latinx community faces inequitable access to care because of intersecting forms of oppression, and may have difficulty accessing services at Latinx organizations, + organizations, or government organizations because of their sexual orientation, cultural identity, or immigration status,” the description of one such grant reads. “We will launch a satellite location in rural southeast Yakima County to provide HIV prevention activities focused on the LGBTQ+ Latinx community and case management for Latinx people living with HIV.”

Condom distribution, testing, healthcare referrals, and community outreach were among the services paid for by the $700,000 federal grant. Another grant, which allocated about $1.7 million to Positive Impact Health Centers in Georgia, implemented a “five-year HIV prevention project that provides targeted HIV testing services in various venues for 12,500 minority men who have sex with men,” distributed over 150,000 condoms, and introduced a “high-impact prevention behavioral intervention promise for black men who have sex with men [to] increase awareness of the benefits of HIV treatment and promote medication adherence by training 150 peers who will disseminate at least 65 role model stories.”

Dozens of other grants disbursed by the Biden administration carried out similar operations with tens of millions of dollars in collective funding.

Research into how to reduce the spread of disease among men who have sex with men also received considerable funding from the Biden administration. 

One study, for which the Biden administration set aside just over $4 million, saw Columbia University enroll a large cohort of “young men who have sex with men” to track their activity with a mobile application called “MyPEEPS.” The app was designed to reduce risky sexual behavior that can lead to contracting HIV and to increase the use of PrEP, a medication that greatly reduces the risk of HIV transmission. Another federally funded Columbia study, this time worth just under $3 million, sought to investigate the impact of cannabis usage on risky sexual behavior among black men who have sex with men.

While the Biden administration spent aggressively on addressing the public health externalities associated with homosexual activity, the federal government only issued about $70 million in grants with descriptions containing the words “men who have sex with men” during President Donald Trump’s first term in office, federal records show. The second Trump administration has yet to approve any new grants containing that phrase.

NEWSOM’S ADMINISTRATION SPENT MILLIONS ON YOUTH TRANSGENDERISM

Advocates of funding such grants point out that spending to reduce the spread of HIV and other diseases commonly spread through homosexual intercourse saves millions of lives every year, therefore making it a good use of public funds. PEPFAR, a global program administered by the United States government that provides HIV prevention and treatment services, has, for instance, saved an estimated 25 million lives since it was established in 2003 with an estimated cost of $120 billion. 

Some conservatives, such as those at the Heritage Foundation, have argued that the Biden administration used PEPFAR to advance its social agenda abroad by tying aid funding to left-of-center priorities such as abortion access and LGBT rights. Additionally, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has targeted federal awards intended to assist the LGBT community for cancellation, making the government’s future spending behavior in that realm uncertain.