Who’s SAR-ry now? (a gay advocate's surprising take on AIDS and SARS)

The Advocate ^ | April 23, 2003 | Charles Karel Bouley II

[annyokie]

I don't want to start a fire fight, but AIDS spread like wildfire (no pun intended) BECAUSE of the gay agenda's refusal to educate their own about the cause and prevention.

A couple of bi-guys hit for the other team and it's straight AIDS all of a sudden.

[Howlin]

Where were the executive orders then

One can only imagine the uproar.

Remember when they tried to close the bathhouses?

[Howlin]

I bet this guy demands to know the name of every single person in this country who might have SARS.

What hypocrites.

[annyokie]

Yes, I do. My best girlfriend's promiscious gay brother was an afficienado of those cesspools. He finally succombed to AIDs a few years ago. Lord knows who he passed it on to in the meantime.

[Dog Gone]

It was a politically correct disease. This guy is blaming Reagan and others for not cracking down on them.

If education were the solution, the disease wouldn't even be a problem in this country today. It's not like SARS. Normal people are not at risk.

[RaceBannon]

What if they had closed the bathhouses? Quarantined those with HIV or at least those with clear symptoms of AIDS until they could figure this out?

How quick they forget!!

We DID try to screen blood, prevent gays from giving blood, and people did talk about quarrantine, only the Gay lobby insisted we NOT do those things!!

[annyokie]

It's not just that, there was an effort made by PHYSICIANS in SF to hush up the fact that screwing your brains out (well you know what I mean) with strangers every night of the week was not a good idea.

That whole life style BS. Now the whole world suffers for their CYA.

As for Reagan being the problem, isn't he the guy Maxine Waters accused of causing the crack epidemic? What hasn't the Gipper done to F up minorities and gays? (sarcasm off)

[annyokie]

You are correct, sir. They screamed prejudice and gay profiling. In the words of Dennis Miller, "It's MY right not to F*cking die for theirs!"

[AnAmericanMother]

This article is a lie -- a damned lie -- from beginning to end.

My mother has been in the dance community in Atlanta (one of the epicenters of AIDS) for over 50 years. I was here and grown when AIDS struck Atlanta.

The then mayor, Andrew Young, was a very liberal and relatively young black man at that time. He wanted to close the bathhouses and use the normal quarantine-and-trace public health measures for AIDS.

His common-sense proposal was met with a firestorm of opposition by the very influential Atlanta gay community. He was threatened, protesters dogged him everywhere he went, and the usual liberal suspects joined the gays in screaming "civil rights violation!". The liberal newspapers joined in the cry for Young's blood, especially the little local papers like Creative Loafing and Southern Voice.

Andy wimped out and withdrew all his proposals. I think he was a coward to do so, but his political career would have been over instanter if he had persisted.

This author is blaming the Republicans when she needs to look in the mirror (or blame her deceased husband and his associates, which she will not do.)

[freedumb2003]

SARS is a virus that can kill. HIV is a virus that can kill. To a virologist, they’re the same

SARS is not invited into one's life as a result of deviant behavior. SARS is not a behavior-based ailment (unless you count breathing as behavior).

This comparison is as disgusting as comparing eating meat to the Holocaust.

[Alberta's Child]

This guy has to be kidding. AIDS was treated with kid gloves in the 1980s out of fear of offending homosexuals. In fact, AIDS was not always called AIDS -- it was originally called GRID (Gay-Related Immune Deficiency) but was changed to AIDS for politically correct reasons.

[annyokie]

Right you are, Mom. If you haven't already, read David Horowitz' "The Polotics of Bad Faith". He has a whole chapter where he debunks the whole "it's Reagan's fault" blame game about AIDS.

[annyokie]

Polotics=Politics, sheesh, Anny!

[Dog Gone]

This author is blaming the Republicans when she needs to look in the mirror (or blame her deceased husband and his associates, which she will not do.)

This author is very much a he and he seems to refer to his partner as his husband.

What I found striking about this article is that it acknowledges that conservatives were right all along. Of course, then it proceeds to blame them for not winning the argument over the objections of those, like himself, who fought us tooth and nail.

Interestingly, he doesn't mention what his own position was at the time. I'm sure he mirrored those of the gay community.

[AnAmericanMother]

I hate this gender-bending nonsense.

He writes like a stereotypical woman, too (emotional and blaming others).

[Mr. Mojo]

I never thought I’d say it, but I approve of Bush

Geez, isn't this joke a bit stale by now?

[45semi]

"All those steps at the beginning that are now being taken with SARS and could have been taken with HIV weren’t because AIDS took hold in an already oppressed community, one that the far right would have been happy to toss into internment camps with or without a deadly disease as an excuse."

How about tossing the 'bug-chaser's' & 'bug-providers' into prison, that is, a 'sanitarium'-like facility -ala- tuberculosis patients, until they see fit to QUIT spreading the disease...in other words, a little 'time-out' corner till they see the error of their ways, and QUIT deliberately spreading the infection.
I can hear the cries of outrage quite clearly with 2 seconds worth of imagination...
So what is the author saying/asking ?
"Why didnt you segregate/isolate us for our own good?"
This really & truely props up the arguements some use when they say homosexuality is a mental illness...
A mentally deficient illness is what...