Blog

William Pardoe
May 06th, 2025

Dear Engage Montreal participants, We are notifying you of a change in one of the Engage substudies, Engage-HPV. As a participant in Engage, you were given the opportunity to consent to participating in Engage-HPV. If you opted in to participating in this substudy, you provided consent and...

EngageTO
September 24th, 2024

This is the accepted version of the manuscript and provided here for open access. The published version can be found at: Berlin, G. W., Dermody, S. S., Noor, S. W., Skakoon-Sparling, S., Ghauri, Y., Zahran, A., ... & Hart, T. A. (2024). Minority Stress, Psychological Distress, Sexual...

EngageTO
January 11th, 2024

Since COVID-19, the importance of timely access to healthcare has been brought into stark relief. For many trans and gender-diverse people, disruptions to care have been particularly challenging. A recent mixed-methods study, conducted as part of Engage, explored access to gender-affirming care...

EngageTO
May 30th, 2023

As GBQ guys, we have our own way of caring for our sexual health, including when it comes to bacterial STIs—what works for the general population isn’t always what works best for us. We need our healthcare providers to understand what’s unique about our sexual lives, at least well enough to...

EngageTO
November 14th, 2022

Provincial programs to vaccinate gay, bisexual, and queer (GBQ) men against human papillomavirus (HPV) are working, but gaps in access mean many are left unprotected against HPV-related diseases. For GBQ men—who experience a greater risk of HPV-related diseases like cancers and genital...

EngageTO
August 11th, 2022

Vancouver, British Columbia—In 2016, Health Canada approved a highly effective medication to prevent new HIV infections. Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) is a shown to reduce HIV acquisition for HIV-negative individuals by 86% in clinical trials. Yet, new HIV diagnoses in Canada have remained...

EngageTO
August 09th, 2022

As time goes on, countless studies will explore how COVID-19 has impacted people in Canada's biggest cities, but few will describe the unique experiences of gay, bisexual, and queer men (GBQM) during this time. As part of the Engage study, we asked GBQM about their experiences of the COVID-19...

EngageTO
August 04th, 2022

On August 4, 2022, the Engage Montreal team published the Engage Montreal Cycle 2017-2018 – Compilation of Observations and Selected Tools. This report presents a wide range of observations collected from the 1,179 participants of the 2017-2018 cycle of the Engage Montréal study (cycle...

EngageTO
June 27th, 2022

It’s been over two years now since the first COVID-19 lockdowns were implemented across Canada. Two years on and we’re living in a very different world. COVID-19 has laid bare the vulnerabilities in our public health system and has shown government, at all levels, that there is much to do...

EngageTO
May 18th, 2022

COVID-19 brought unprecedented changes to the way we socialize, but what did it mean for sex? For many queer men, the pandemic meant less activity between the sheets, but it also meant creative solutions like camming and sexting, or changes to in-person sexual encounters.  As part of...