Gay Group Eschews Political Correctness With New AIDS Campaign
One of Southern California’s most influential gay institutions has launched a controversial ad campaign that describes HIV as a “gay disease.”
The L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center’s departure from 20 years of countering the idea of AIDS as a gay plague is designed to reach gay men who have grown complacent about the illness.
The message “HIV is a gay disease” and the tag line “Own It. End It” will appear on billboards and in magazines. . . .
In Los Angeles County, about 75 percent of HIV cases are among men who have had sex with other men. But nationwide, gay and bisexual men account for about half of recent HIV transmission, according to the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.
Numbers don’t lie. Homosexuals make up a very disproportionate number of AIDS cases in America and it has done the public a grave disservice to ignore that fact for the sake of political correctness.
Though as I’ve pointed out before, avoiding HIV infection is really pretty simple. Just don’t do intravenous drugs or engage in promiscuous sex. Those two things alone will lower your chances of getting HIV to pretty much nothing. Why people don’t get that is beyond me.
