Oddly enough! Gays still getting AIDS in ‘epidemic’ numbers despite 30 years of ‘raising awareness’, red ribbons, free condoms, Pride parades
Just a reminder:
Center for Disease Control isn’t Focus on the Family.
Flashback: Gays back in the 1980s condemn calls to shut down bathhouses and refrain from anonymous semi-public sex as “anti-gay”; blamed AIDS on the Pope, Ronald Reagan…
Center for Disease Control isn’t Focus on the Family.
Flashback: Gays back in the 1980s condemn calls to shut down bathhouses and refrain from anonymous semi-public sex as “anti-gay”; blamed AIDS on the Pope, Ronald Reagan…
When Dr. Dan William, a gay specialist, warned of the danger of continued promiscuity, he was publicly denounced as a “monogamist” in the gay press.
When playwright Larry Kramer issued a similar warning, he was accused in the New York Native of “gay homophobia and anti-eroticism.”
At a public meeting in the year preceding the first AIDS cases, Edmund White, co-author of The Joy of Gay Sex, proposed that “gay men should wear their sexually transmitted diseases like red badges of courage in a war against a sex-negative society.”
Michael Callen, a gay youth present at the meeting, had already had 3,000 sexual partners and was shortly to come down with AIDS. When he heard White’s triumphant defiance of nature’s law, he remembers thinking: “Every time I get the clap [gonorrhea] I’m striking a blow for the sexual revolution.”
Callen’s attitude was emblematic.
The first clusters of AIDS victims were formed not by monogamous civil reformers who had come out of the closet to demand tolerance and respect, but by sexual revolutionaries who had engaged in extremely risky behavior in order to advance the new order.
Callen, who later founded the organization People With AIDS, reflected on this revolutionary path: Posted in conservative blog
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