The survival instinct isn’t a bad thing. Humans are naturally repelled by disease, human waste, etc..
Call it homophobia if you wish, but the disgust many have toward homosexuality isn’t just repulsion toward sex with members of one’s same sex. It’s also based on legitimate, scientific even, understanding of the disease spreading nature of anal sex with hundreds if not thousands of sex partners.
The fact that we now have means to mitigate such things as AIDS doesn’t mean that the underlying acts that spread it are now OK. They remain high risk and self destructive regardless.
Ugh, one of the lib Austin, TX tv stations had the Austin Gay Mens Choir singing this morning.
Twenty years ago, we had a neighbor who’d bring over goodies for us on a weekly basis. She swore her son had xyz disease but we later suspected it was AIDS. It angers us we didn’t put two and two together and eating those back fence treats.