Dallas’ Turtle Creek Chorale bills itself as the premier “gay” men’s chorus in the world. Since it so thick with them, a little investigation is eye-opening when you look at their “member memorial” page.
http://turtlecreek.org/index.php?/memorial/
Note the young ages at which many of them die. When AIDS isn’t specifically mentioned, they are described as “passing away peacefully at home.”
These are upscale, upwardly mobile, mostly affluent homosexual men, not down-and-outters.
Wow, that’s really sad.