What did they do to keep from people getting freak out of their minds and over parinoid to the point where there would be segregation from the gays and the straights??
2006-07-23 15:56:29 · 6 answers · asked by Im Nobdy, nobdy is perfect. 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
Maybe you forgot the Ryan White Story.
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2006-07-23 16:00:01 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
FREAK AWAY BABE
AIDS is a disease spread by unsafe sexual contact (primarily to the passive partner in intercourse), dirty hypodermic needles, contaminated blood transfusions, and from mother to child before birth. Gays have taken great care to educate their community, practice safe sex, and minister (in the true sense of the word) to those unfortunate enough to have caught the disease. Because most gays have changed their sexual activities and are now practicing safe sex, new infections in the gay community have leveled off. Meanwhile, infections are on the rise in the heterosexual community. The myth, "If you don't go to bed with someone gay you won't get AIDS," is hurting the heterosexual community more severely than it's hurting the homosexual community.
Worldwide, AIDS is primarily a heterosexual, not homosexual, disease. It is a sexually transmitted disease that—for whatever reason—entered the gay community in the United States and stayed fairly contained there for a number of years. It is now spreading through the heterosexual community, and will continue to do so until heterosexuals realize that AIDS is not a "gay disease." Any sexually active person—male, female, gay, straight—can get it. If you have intercourse, use a condom. There's hardly a gay person in the country who does not know this rule of safe sex. Can the same be said of heterosexuals?
Further, 25 percent of the AIDS cases—including almost all cases involving heterosexuals and children—were spread by or directly connected to dirty needles. If heroin or morphine were inexpensive, readily available, and sold in use-once syringes, do you think these 25 percent of AIDS cases would be suffering today?
you cant keep hating gays babe and think that keeps ya safe ...grow up a bit
2006-07-23 16:33:35 · answer #2 · answered by Bearable 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They ignored the problem until they took the stand that it was a "gay" disease, thereby lulling the public into a sense of false security. Now that people know the facts, it's too freakin' LATE.
Now it's everyone's problem. If you're still working under the same delusion, then get off this website and do some real research. Check out the populations among whom the epidemic is growing the fastest. ( PS: It's NOT just for homosexuals anymore... )
2006-07-23 16:04:14 · answer #3 · answered by jake78745 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It seems by calling it 'gay cancer', so that homosexuals were the only people to be affected, that heterosexuals could not contract. Give anything a fun, exciting name and anyone will believe it. To me, though, it further segregated gay and straight. There was a false sense of security for heterosexuals, I believe.
Just my opinion.
2006-07-23 16:02:43 · answer #4 · answered by schwarten46 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They didn't. . .
AIDS wasn't an issue when it was only "gays" dying from it. When it became an issue in the "straight" community, that is when everyone became "up in arms" and wanted more AIDS funding. And when the rich realized that it didn't discriminate and stay in the poor urban areas, it really became a hot button issue.
Sorry, but I am somewhat cynical I guess. . .
2006-07-23 16:27:40 · answer #5 · answered by volleyballchick (cowards block) 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i don kno. but i guess ppl just thought that the diseases are in AFRICA or other third world countries.
2006-07-23 15:59:49 · answer #6 · answered by GodisLove 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋