[starfish923]

White party? White? Symbol of purity? I gotta hand it to gays --they're masters of marketing. Even the term, "gay" is pretty misleading, as most gay dudes are self-destructive, nihilistic, and depressed. Rainbows, too --what could be nicer? Everybody likes that... It's funny --we collect statistics for EVERYTHING; how much your life is shortened by 30 minutes in the same room as an active smoker, for example, and yet we never hear how many years on average the lives of actively gay men are shortened. The one statistic I've heard is that 25% of gay men in SF are HIV+.

I don't get the "white" part either.
I'm not sure about the 25% AIDS/HIV positive, but it's close. The City has so much help for them.
Homosexual men now lead really long lives, into their 70's. BUT, they are always ill, always having to take very complex "coctails" of medication.
There is just quantity of years....not especially any quality.

[durasell]

I don't get the "white" part either.


Throw back to Victorian age when all formal parties were "white tie" etc. Then came military dress and those rabble rousers from Tuxedo NY.

[Jezebelle]

They're expensive years, too. It costs between $700,000 to $1.2M to treat one AIDS patient.