Gay Group Eschews Political Correctness With New AIDS Campaign

• October 1, 2006

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.

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Are you parroting Peter Singer again?
robert108

rbb: Now concentrate and read carefully; I’ll bold the words you apparently missed: The original post was about a Gay Group. They have finally advocated taking responsibility for the spread of AIDS by their lifestyle. I praised that, and said further that they(meaning the Gay Group) would do even better by doing the one thing that could eliminate AIDS entirely in a generation or two: quarantine. Your statement would only make sense if I wanted some group other than the Gay Group to do it, and I had volunteered to be their leader(which I didn’t), or if you think that the Gay Group are Nazis and I want to be their leader(which I didn’t say, either). Otherwise, none of what you said made any sense at all. Understand now?

As I told you before, that stuff is on a need to know basis. You don’t need to know. Also, I wasn’t in the mud. I told you that before, as well. How many times does something have to be repeated to you before you comprehend it?
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Zig Heil y’all, there is a new commandant in the fatherland.
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It is something special, isn’t it r.
I like to think of it as a gift from a god.
You have some special qualities too, ole man.
No one does CLIIIIIIIINNNNTOOOONNNNN better that you.
I always get a chuckle when you do that. And you rip at least one out every single day.

I missed your answer the other day, How were you serving our country in mud at Yazger’s farm and why didn’t you vote in ’68, ’70, ’72….

Round up the infected….what an idiot.
robert108

shel: What “special little island” would that be? Did you make that up all by yourself? I’m sure if the “Gay Group” is running the quarantine operation(as I clearly suggested), it will be very tastefully decorated, at the very least. I don’t engage in risky behavior, and so have no chance of becoming HIV positive. It’s not in either the air or the water, you know.
2Hotel9

I remember the wailing and gnashing of teeth from the “other gendered” community over this in the ’80s. Hypocrisy,thy name is L.A. Gay and Lesbian Center. Perhaps if this message had been put forward 20 years ago the gay community would not be in the ever expanding world of shit it is today.(yes, pun intended)
Dave

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.

This “panic” over heart disease is the same way. Just eat right and exercise, and you have little to worry about.
robert108

Another highly flawed analogy from Dave. Willful dangerous behavior and normal living aren’t the same at all. The risk factors for AIDS and heart disease are not even remotely similar.
shel

The reason that I used the term “little island” was to remind you what various societies have done in the past when they fear a specific group or disease. It is interesting that you have determined that I am the one who is prejudiced.
robert108

Two: And fewer people would have died of AIDS, if the truth had been told then, as well. Shame on them!
robert108

shel: I don’t need you to remind me of anything; you made several unwarrented assumptions about me, and I made a reasoned suggestion about dealing with the spread of AIDS(a deadly disease). Your prejudice is obvious; I have demonstrated no prejudice at all, except against behavior that is irresponsible and that results in a gruesome death. Would that you were so harsh in dealing with those who actually do the spreading. Since you didn’t understand what I meant by quarantine, I explained it already. Did you even bother to read that part?
shel

Will robert108 be the first in line for the HIV test to determine if he will get sent to that special little island to stop the spread of the disease?
Dave

If we euthenized everyone who has AIDS, we could end the disease overnight. It would certainly result in less suffering.
2Hotel9

shel, HIV testing is already widespread and recommended by many doctors and HMOs. What is your real agenda? And before you get all front of the bus and huffy with me, in the last 20 years I have personnally known 5 men who died of AIDS. And each one freely admitted it was their own fault, having contracted HIV after the primary causitive vector was widely known. One of them was my brother. So what is your agenda, pro-AIDS, or pro-stupidity?
robert108

shel: We have records of those with HIV, and that is a start. If mandatory testing was the way to eliminate AIDS in a generation or two, then of course I would support it. Quarantine is the best way to eliminate a disease spread exclusively through personal contact. If the HIV people would quarantine themselves, btw, we wouldn’t be having this problem. All they have to do is not have sex with anyone who is not HIV positive. It’s not about total quarantine, of course, but your emotional reactivity hasn’t been able to figure that one out. It would be more like a sexual clearinghouse with a dating service, probably, but I guess that is beyond your ability to reason.
DaveofGod

Hmmm… If we euthenized everyone who is a Republican, we could end the disease overnight. It would certainly result in less suffering.
robert108

Jen: Of course, quarantine is a totally legitimate way of dealing with the disease process; the only real objection here is from those whose political loyalties are greater than their loyalty to the potential victims of this terrible disease.
Jen

I would like to remind everyone that there are diseases that mandate isolation from the general public to prevent its spread. First and foremost is leprosy. I would like to be the first to say that if I had a contagious disease that could harm others then I would hope that I would behave responsibly or, barring that, be removed from society. The largest segment of the gay community currently being infected with HIV are teenagers. Yes, our youth! No society can grow without those to carry on after them. We lost a whole generation to that dreaded disease because we were too selfish and refused to make the hard decisions. ENOUGH!!!
robert108

DoG: Not so. Suffering from Islamic jihad would increase tremendously. On the other hand, if all the Dems/lefties were “euthanized”(killed), the war on terror would be won in short order, decreasing suffering tremendously. Heck, the absence of Michael Moore, Al Franken and Rosie O’Donnell would decrease suffering hugely(pun intended).
robert108

shel: I don’t. Is this all about your feelings now? I notice that, after implying that I wanted to put people on a little island(something you made up on your own), I replied to your attack with substance. What do you have to say about what I wrote? You made a lot of unwarrented assumptions about me, based only on your mistake prejudices. Where’s your apology for doing that in the first place? Had you been reasonable, there would have been no reason for me to point out your flawed reasoning in the first place.
2Hotel9

Imagine that? Who would of thunk it.
robert108

Two: shel seems to have disappeared.
shel

robert108, You are the one that brought up quarantining people. The only way to determine who to quartantine is to determine who has HIV. So you are just going to take everyone’s word for it. Everyone, including you, would need to be tested to complete your little plan.
robert108

A big step in the right direction. Now, if they would only establish quarantine facilities for HIV-positives(regardless of sexual orientation), they would really be doing something to contribute to the betterment of society.
shel

Why is it that everytime you disagree with someone, you always finish with a personal insult?
robert108

rbb: Sometimes your reactive stupidity amazes me.
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Nice, that’s helpful for me!

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