ONE of his partners? Was he monogamous one gay lover at a time?
I’m late in seeing these replies. I hurriedly wrote that. The point I was trying to make is that the gay lifestyle is inherently risky for diseases like AIDS. Even if someone like Shilts claims to be monogamous, he is at risk from all of his previous partners and all of their partners etc.
I just know that he seemed to disapprove of the San Francisco bathhouse tradition of anonymous sex. That’s why the disease spread so rapidly in the gay community (plus anal sex is much more likely to result in semen interacting with the blood than straight vaginal sex).
I don’t have a problem with excluding them and agree that monogamy in that community is rare. If I get bored with my wife, I could go to a bar but chances are against me hooking up with someone right away. If a gay man is decent looking, they’ll have no problems hooking up with a complete stranger.