So true.
For years I’ve lived as though it didn’t even exist; after the deaths of some true innocents from tainted blood early on, it became a truly preventable infection. Now they insist on having high-risk people in the military (imagine serving as a medic today?), and they want to lift the ban on gay men donating blood. Despite living a lifestyle that had practically 0% chance of infection, I guess we’ll all be exposed now.
FWIW, the homo lobby has always resented that this is regarded as a gay issue. While others may get it (needle users, etc.); gays have always been the majority of those with AIDS in the US.
The origin of HIV, I believe anal sex with monkeys, is not exactly a homo origin. But, if the lore is true, the locals who were raping the monkeys then had homo sex with tourists who brought it back, which in my book makes it a homo disease. And the fact that male prostitutes to the homo trade are IV drug users should not have surprised anyone.
The whole thing is a sordid disgusting episode which gives us innocents way too much information about their disgusting lifestyle. Its hard to have sympathy with a person who would go to a gay bath house or bar to let 10 or 20 strangers give them anal sex.
(Anton vomits)