'''Gay bowel syndrome''', which has also been described as [[Homosexuality|gay]] [[intestine|bowel]] [[disease]], was named as an illness in 1976 in the medical literature via the [[journal]] ''Annals of Clinical and Laboratory Science'' and in 2004 [[Medscape]] stated that gay bowel syndrome is a significant issue in regards [[HIV]] infection (The Johns Hopkins HIV Guide website also presently features an article which is essentially a duplicate of the aforementioned article at Medscape).<ref>[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=PubMed&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=946385&ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVAbstractPlus The gay bowel syndrome: clinico-pathologic correlation in 260 cases.]</ref><ref>[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3225/is_n3_v47/ai_13502158/pg_1 Clinical features and diagnosis - Inflammatory Bowel Disease, part 1] - American Family Physician, Feb 15, 1993 by Glen E. Hastings, Richard J. Weber</ref><ref>[http://www.hopkins-hivguide.org/literature_review/02-2004/new_look_at_gay_bowel_syndrome.html Johns Hopkins HIV Guide - duplicate of Medscape's New Look at | '''Gay bowel syndrome''', which has also been described as [[Homosexuality|gay]] [[intestine|bowel]] [[disease]], was named as an illness in 1976 in the medical literature via the [[journal]] ''Annals of Clinical and Laboratory Science'' and in 2004 [[Medscape]] stated that gay bowel syndrome is a significant issue in regards [[HIV]] infection (The Johns Hopkins HIV Guide website also presently features an article which is essentially a duplicate of the aforementioned article at Medscape).<ref>[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=PubMed&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=946385&ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVAbstractPlus The gay bowel syndrome: clinico-pathologic correlation in 260 cases.]</ref><ref>[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3225/is_n3_v47/ai_13502158/pg_1 Clinical features and diagnosis - Inflammatory Bowel Disease, part 1] - American Family Physician, Feb 15, 1993 by Glen E. Hastings, Richard J. Weber</ref><ref>[http://www.hopkins-hivguide.org/literature_review/02-2004/new_look_at_gay_bowel_syndrome.html Johns Hopkins HIV Guide - duplicate of Medscape's New Look at |