David completed his Ph.D. in Social-Personality Psychology at CUNY Graduate Center. He began his interest in HIV and gay men’s health during his undergraduate studies at New Jersey City University where he was trained as a HIV peer educator. David currently continues his HIV peer education efforts with the DIVAS (Drag Initiative to Vanquish AIDS). His broad research interests include attribution theory, health psychology, sex work and the mechanisms and impact of prejudice and discrimination.
David has served as project director at CHEST on studies focused on the sexual lives of HIV positive MSM (SUMS and SUMIT), internet based male sex workers (The Classified Project), sexual compulsivity among gay and bisexual men (Project SPIN), and the lives of urban gays and lesbians (The Sex and Love Study). David will be the project Director for CHEST's recently funded CDC project, T-GIRLS: Transgender Group Intervention Reaffirming Living Safely.
David dilligently serves on on CHEST's team of D.I.V.A.s (Drag Initiative to Vanquish AIDS) with the alter ego of Mrs. Daisy Durex. Outside of research, David has taught college courses in social psychology, gay/lesbian psychology and human sexuality. He also is Chair of the Board of Directors for Hudson Pride Connections, a non-profit organization in Journal Square, Jersey City, that provides services for the LGBT Community and all persons living with HIV (www.hudsonpride.org). Hudson Pride will also be moving into a permanent home and officially open the Pride Connections Center of North Jersey in the fall of 2007.
As an Asst. Professor of Health Sciences at LaGuardia Community College, David coordinates the courses “Community Health,” and “Aging and Health.” He regularly teaches the courses “Human Sexuality,” “Drugs & Behavior,” and “AIDS in NYC” and is also the faculty mentor to the Straight and Gay Alliance.
Selected Publications:
Pantalone, D. W., Bimbi, D. S. & Parsons, J. T. (2009, in press). Motivations for recreational use of erectile enhancing medications in urban gay and bisexual men. Sexually Transmitted Infections.
Nanin, J., Bimbi, D., Grov, C. & Parsons, J. (2009, in press). Community reactions to a syphilis prevention campaign for gay and bisexual men in Los Angeles County. Journal of Sex Research.
Koken, J., Bimbi, D.S. & Parsons, J. (2009). Comparing female and male escorts. In R. J. Weitzer (Ed.) Sex for Sale: Prostitution, Pornography, and the Sex Industry , 2 nd Edition, Routledge.
Bimbi, D. S., Parsons, J. T. (2005). Cause and effect: Attributions about becoming HIV-positive and safer sex decision making (pp. 133 – 146). In Halkitis, P. N., Gomez, C. A., Wolitski, R. J. (Eds.) HIV + sex: The psychological and interpersonal dynamics of HIV-seropositive gay and bisexual men's relationships. Washington, D.C., APA Publications.
Bimbi, D.S., Parsons, J. T. (2005). Barebacking among Internet based male sex workers. Journal of Gay and Lesbian Psychotherapy, 9, 89-110. Bimbi, D. S., Vicioso, K., Parsons, J. T., Nanin, J. E., Missildine, W., & Frost, D. M. (2006). Assessing gay and bisexual men’s perceptions of sexual risk under the influence of alcohol and drugs. Substance Use and Misuse, 41, 643-652. Parsons, J. T., Bimbi, D. S. (2007). Intentional unprotected anal intercourse among mex who have sex with men: Barebacking - from behavior to identity. AIDS and Behavior, 11, 277-287. Grov, C., Bimbi, D. S., Nanin, J. E., Parsons, J. T. (2006). Exploring racial and ethnic differences in recreational drug use among gay and bisexual men in New York City and Los Angeles. Journal of Drug Education, 35, 105-123. Bimbi, D. S. (in press). Male prostitution: Pathology, paradigms and progress in research. Journal of Homosexuality, 53. [To be simultaneously published in Male Sex Work: A business doing pleasure (T. G.Morrison, B. W. Whitehead Eds.) Haworth Press].
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