Why was AIDS so prominent among the Gay community in the beginning if..?

Question

it was transmitted from an ape to a human by a bite? Was America the first place AIDS was known to exsist?

Answer 1

1.HIV/AIDS looks to be prominent among the gay community probably becoz this virus and the disease was first discovered in gays and was thought to infect only the gays,thus it was termed as a gay related disease but it is well know now that even hetrosexuals can get it if u sleep around with people without any protection.
2.How we humans got it remains a mystery but scientists now belive that we got it from their bite or when man consumed bush meat.
3.No America was not the first place,it just that this disease was first discoved in America in 1980's.It was know to have existed in Africa even earlier in the 1950's.

Answer 2

I watched a documentary on AIDS recently and they confirmed
what many believed to be the start of aids in Africa. Many African
people hunt the monkeys for food . The monkeys have had the
virus in their systems for ages. This bug kept mutating and finally
was found in humans that had eaten monkey that had this mutated viral bug. I also watched the movie And the Band PLayed
on where it told of the spread of aids here in America and elsewhere. There was a very sexy male stewardess who had contacted the aids through sex with a male African who had it.
This very handsome and sexually active man passed it through
sex with numerous partners in the USA and from there it just kept
snowballing to huge clusters of men, and later to hemophiliacs and on and on to now everyone is at a risk. This is heartbreaking.

Answer 3

I don't know what you guys are on about that anal sex spreads this disease more than vaginal. Just take a look at AIDS in Africa right now - it is in epidemic proportions that dwarfs the epidemic in the Western World. The reason it hit the gay community first is because gay men tend to have more sexual partners, and have unprotected sex (as pregnancy isn't a concern.) Yes it is spread through the sharing of fluids - blood primarily - and women have contracted the disease through bi-sexual men, and many others through the tainted blood transfusions that happened in the early years. From the film "The Band Played On" with Matthew Modine - about the early stages of the illness spreading - it is suggested that people who travelled to that region of the world - a gay man in particular who contracted it - was having sex with many many people anonymously (sex addict type) and the illness spread very fast through the community. This factor and unprotected sex is the main reason - not anal sex. If women were in the habit of sleeping around more, and having unprotected sex, the epidemic could have very well spread like it has now in Africa. People do your homework. And anal sex is NOT a violent act if you know anything about it. Many straight women AND straight men even like it - there aren't sex toys out there for that act JUST because. It is an a great place for sexual pleasure - and for some people - they love it, and others - it's not their cup of tea. Just like the fact that I know MANY gay men who do not like anal sex (doing it, or having it done.) So please don't stereotype. How do I know all of this? I worked for an AIDS organization for years. I've done my research and have hands on experience with the epidemic in the western world.

Answer 4

Back in the '20s or '30s they found HIV in primarily gay people and at first HIV stood for Homosexual Immunity Virus. The reason that this probably happened is becuase anal sex is very "violent" for lack of a better word. There is a good chance of bleeding when you have anal sex and thats where it first started. (probably)

However they soon saw the virus come up in straight people, both men and women.

buy just to clear the rumors, gay people did not give AIDS to America. Monkeys in Africa did.

Answer 5

it began with the gay inhabitants in ny, Chicago and San Francisco so the first operating assumption replaced into that's a gay guy's ailment and when you consider that gay adult males have sex with women people a lot less typically it took a lengthy time period for people to comprehend AIDS isn't sex-certain also, there replaced into diverse talk back then about the prospect of a "gay gene" and it looked as if it would diverse people that an endemic that purely assaults gay adult males will be evidence of the gay gene theory

Answer 6

Probably because men didn't worry about other men getting pregnant so they didn't use protection all the time and they didn't have anything scary before AIDS to worry about much...and anal sex always causes small tears in the butt which makes blood which makes transmission easier.

Answer 7

During the early 1980s, it was casually referred to as Gay Related Immune Disease (GRID). However, HIV is by NO means a "gay" disease and anyone is susceptible. And in 1986, both the French and the US were in favour of the new term human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). This is due to its being discovered as also being present in exposed heterosexuals.

Answer 8

AIDS has been found in a still existing blood sample from the African Congo in 1959. It is thought to have been contracted from hunting chimpanzees.
Use my link and click on the word 'AIDS' for more info.

Answer 9

I believe it didn't come from a ape bite, but by a vaccine they were attempting to develop for an unrelated disease.

Answer 10

Because anal sex causes more trauma than vaginal sex. Thus enabling it to get in the blood stream in higher concentrations.