YOUR SEXUALITY

[Duchess]

Oh piss off HoTD!

I work in health. You cannot make a blanket statement about a specific group of the population without backing it up with facts. That is called bigotry. Many of the perceptions are false and misleading in their prejudices against certain groups within a population. In order to prove your thesis you need to have evidence to explain your perception. I wouldn't use a source such as unicef. Whilst they do wonderful work, I wouldn't use them as a source if I was investigating the spread of the virus. Maybe something like the World Health Organisation, and I wouldn't just use one source, you need more than that to speak from a place of truth.

There is no doubt that the AIDS epidemic was/is a phenomenon. This would have been investigated and explored in detail in scientific based medical journals with actual facts and statistics. I know from working in the area of health that HIV+ has never been referred to as a gay disease. In fact, you could find yourself struck off or suspended if you started using that kind of language.

I am surprised at you supporting unsubstantiated hysterical hate filled homophobia. Then again, dogs are pack animals and you are sticking with the pack on this one.

I'm not sure what kind of proof you're looking for but I just googled aids in the us and the page filled with examples of it first being discovered in the gay community in the United States. It's a fact that's how it happened here, Aussie, it was found and spread in the gay communities like wildfire.

This in one paragraph out of many articles. This was written by two doctors who have devoted the last 30 yrs to working with aids patients.

Soon, more cases like these appeared, at first mainly in gay men, but then also in injection drug users, hemophiliacs, and other recipients of blood and blood products, heterosexual men and women, and babies who acquired the infection from their mothers during birth or breastfeeding. We and our colleagues quickly began to confront the reality of a deadly new disease that would change the world. The disease ultimately would be referred to as AIDS.

In the United States this was considered a gay disease and many still believe that the roots of it lie in the gay community.