Sorry to ruin your Thursday weekend kickoff buzz, but the CDC (via Queerty) reports that across 33 states, new HIV diagnoses rose as high as 15 percent per year between 2001 and 2006 among gay and bi men aged 13 to 24. Despite the lack of clarity surrounding some figures released earlier this year in regard to new diagnoses, these new figures do indicate that a) the Bush Administration's abstinence-only policy toward sex education is doing a fuck lot of good, especially for Black and Latino teens, and that b) the whole bareback fetish/idiocy is not helping matters either.