Mr Atkinson, who is married with three adult children, said he paid $15 to enter and was handed a single condom at the door. Mr Atkinson said that he went to the club following a constituent's tip-off because he was concerned about rising HIV rates and how Health Minister Bronwyn Pike handled allegations some HIV-positive men were deliberately spreading the disease. SENIOR Victorian government MPs have praised a Liberal backbencher who visited a gay sex club and witnessed dozens of men having sex to research high-risk sexual behaviour.īruce Atkinson admitted his visit to the un-named inner Melbourne venue to the Victorian Upper House on Wednesday, stunning colleagues.
