&NA;This study evaluates two AIDS risk‐reduction interventions targeted at homosexual and bisexual men. Participants were randomized into two peer‐led interventions: both involved a lecture on ‘safer sex’, and one provided a skills‐training component during which men could discuss and rehearse the negotiation of safer sexual encounters. Follow‐up data collection assessed self‐reported changes in sexual behavior at 6 and 12 months. Skills training increased condom use for insertive anal intercourse. In sessions providing skills training, condom use increased, on average, by 44% between pre‐test and second follow‐up compared with only 11% on average in sessions which did not provide such training.