In Australia, from late March, community-based LGBTQ and HIV organisations also started explicitly advising people in LGBTQ communities to refrain from having casual sex (7). The initial period of the COVID-19 pandemic was characterised by decreases in the number of sexual partners/encounters among gay, bisexual, and queer-identifying (GBQ) men (1-6). By Dr Dean Murphy, Research Fellow, Kirby Institute, UNSW, Sydney and Alfred Health, Melbourne.