The Gay Men's Health Collective, founded in 1976, is a group of volunteer lay and professional health care workers with focussed training and experience in education, screening, diagnosis, and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases. Come early and bring something to read. You may bring someone with you for emotional support.
Many people have no symptoms.
Thick yellow or white discharge from the penis, vagina, or rectum. A mother with gonorrhea can give it to her baby during childbirth. You can give gonorrhea to your sexual partner. The infection can travel to other organs and lead to more serious infections. Reproductive organs can be damaged.