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

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

[freedumb2003]

Tell that to someone who got a blood transfusion between 1982 and 1983. Or their spouses and children.

Forgive me, I was being a bit over-expansive. Yes, there are sad cases that are the results of such terrible and unwarranted circumstances, as there are some who have contracted it by marrying into someone with the undetected condition.

However, its continued accelerated growth is primarily (although not exclusively) the result of continued non-monagamal heterosexual sexual contact or intravenous drug use.

AIDS is basically a lifstyle disease. SARS is bad timing (until we hear otherwise).

[Strzelec]

I do believe this Korel was half of the "Korel and Andrew" radio show KFI in Los Angeles had in afternoon a couple of years ago.

If true, you are right on the mark.

[Paul Atreides]

To let homosexuals tell it, there was never any suffering before AIDS came along.

Bunch of drama queens.

[Richard Kimball]

This is just classic homosexual revisionism. I called into a talk radio show hosted by Cathy Cronkite (Walter's daughter), and she accused me of wanting to brand people on the forehead for saying the CDC should do contact tracing, like it does with every other communicable disease.

The movie, "And the Band Played On" was completely exorcised of any references to the homosexuals own culpability in the spread of AIDS. Time for the next big lie.

[Nebullis]

SARS is going to be the ultimate cure for AIDS.

[Nov3]

I can only imagine the uproar if the government did any of the measures listed above. The outrageous Castro district fags were going to continue to boff each other unless they were locked down in cages.

[Dog Gone]

I never heard of him, but he does seem to be a southern California personality.

Bouley, a.k.a. “Karel,” is a talk show host, entertainer, and writer. He contributes regularly to Billboard, is author of Karel’s Komments in the Orange County Blade and Long Beach Blade, and a regular on TNN’s Ultimate Revenge. You can hear Karel’s show at www.karelchannel.com or E-mail comments@karelchannel.com

[Brian S]

I didn't even read the article when I first spotted the source. I've had to take one 'scrub bath' already this evening...

However, very cute title! I like it!

[rebel85]

heterosexual spread may contribute to the increasing incidence (new cases per year, as opposed to prevalence which is total cases per year) worldwide; but I believe that the majority of increasing incidence and prevalence in the US is still in the homosexual community.
There are many younger homosexuals who are actively pursuing infection with the virus at this time as a rite of passage sort of idea.
Seems they have forgotten how bad the disease can really be since many of the younger people are now seeing mostly only the HIV positive people who are on multiple anti-HIV drugs and exhibit minimal, if any, symptoms as long as they take the meds.

[Go Gordon]

if the gay community had shut their mouths and let the CDC work with impunity in the community?

Ummmmm, if the gay community would have shut their mouths and other orafices, maybe we wouldn't have the problems we do today.

[InShanghai]

Iraqi Information Minister Reports on SARS Outbreak!

Full report

[general_re]

Jesus, Nebs - that is pretty harsh...which doesn't mean that it's necessarily false. Up until I read your post just now, it never occurred to me to think how SARS might affect the immune-compromised - it'll rage through them like wildfire. Gonna be a lot of dead AIDS and chemo patients if this thing isn't contained...

[freedumb2003]

but I believe that the majority of increasing incidence and prevalence in the US is still in the homosexual community.

I must be getting senile... I could have sworn this was exactly my thesis (although unprotected sex and sharing needles probably are also big contributors). My take is that standard non-drug using monogamous heteros are a itty bitty teeny weenie part of the whole thing. Homosexuals are primarily responsible for the damn thing staying alive. No homo sex, AIDS dissapears in 10 years.

[MississippiMan]

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.)

I think you mean when he needs to look in the mirror or blame his husband.

MM

[fight_truth_decay]

Hepatitis is killing 3 times more people than AIDS, and 3 times more people are infected.

As long as the world thinks AIDS is this mystery illness without a cure, then they won't notice hepatitis...aids is a new disease of mysterious origins, that is insidious and deadly, while no one notices an "OLD" disease like Hepatitis, that doesn't have the sex appeal of a new mystery disease.....-Dan Coble ,Vet, Rense.com

[AnAmericanMother]

Hey, I call 'em like I see 'em. ;-)

If somebody is referring to their "husband", and whining and blaming like a stereotypical spoiled brat of a female, "he" is a "she".

Whatever "it" is, it's a despicable liar.

[SauronOfMordor]

The gay community is terrified of SARS, since those with lowered immune systems (eg HIV+ people) are disproportunately likely to die from it

[JimRed]

But at least this is being addressed early in the game—...unlike the last deadly virus to come around in the early 1980s, HIV. Where were the executive orders then, the lead from the Centers for Disease Control (before it added “and Prevention” to its name) or the World Health Organization? Where was the government outcry, the immediate worldwide involvement?

Nowhere. Because just queers were dying.

Shortly followed by other undesirables, the IV drug users.

When the subject of quarantine of active male homosexuals with HIV was raised in the early '80's the loony left shrieked about "concentration camps", remember?

Now they're wailing that by NOT quarantining them we have forced them to reap what they've sown.

Can't have it both ways!