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Home Front: Culture Wars

A Gay Website Tells Its Readers: Don't Pass Up Having Sex with Someone Just Because They Have HIV

2019-11-24

[Red State] If you’re looking for evidence that the culture ‐ and science ‐ have come a long way from the beginnings of the HIV scare, glance no further than a new write-up at Queerty.com.

Not long ago, HIV was a short waiting game, followed by AIDS as a swift death sentence. And in the early days of the disease’s discovery, mere talk of it was often drenched with fear.

But for many, it would seem, those days are in the rearview mirror ‐ dramatic advances have been made.

As per Healthline, in 1996, the life expectancy of a 20-year-old who contracted HIV was 39. By 2011, that number had leapt to 70. And, at least in some circles, the culture has similarly jumped.

Hence, courtesy of Qeerty:

"What You Stand to Lose by Not Having Sex with People with HIV" The article begins by profiling a couple named Todd and Carl.

Posted by:Besoeker

#11 I’m sure the FDA did not approve the pill you saw advertised, Dron66046. The level of testing they require in order to get approval verges on the absurd.

Posted by: trailing wife 2019-11-24 23:30

#10 California decriminalized knowingly spreading HIV. On one hand gays and gay rights have done well lately, then they take two or three steps backwards and make their lives more difficult/deadly.

Posted by: ruprecht 2019-11-24 22:51

#9 I just saw an ad for a pill that enables you to just pass an HIV lab test, Dovito...something. For what purpose would such a drug be needed and what kind of FDA approves such a thing ?

Posted by: Dron66046 2019-11-24 22:33

#8 We are going down to the Mud Club in lower Gotham around 1980 to hear a group and there was a parked trailer on Washington St, parallel to the West Side Highway. My friend and I, while waiting at a light, saw a flow of men going in and out of that trailer...I guess they couldn't afford The Anvil or Crisco Disco which were near by.

Posted by: Unosh Hupinelet8756 2019-11-24 20:02

#7 ..you know that in the less than enlightened first half of the 20th century, they confined carriers of infectious diseases to institutions to stop the spread of said disease among the population. That was before a 'disease' got 'human rights' before the more enlightened judiciary.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-11-24 15:27

#6 If the infected had taken it upon themselves to act like whores with other infected but be careful outside of that group the infection would have mostly died out in the 80s.

Posted by: ruprecht 2019-11-24 13:38

#5 Haven't seen much lately about how Red Cross said there would be a catastrophic blood shortage unless HIV testing for donors was outlawed.

Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-11-24 09:27

#4 Darwin smiles.

Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-11-24 09:24

#3 Wonder why the Deep state were so worried by this disease that mainly affects people with abnormal drives?

Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2019-11-24 09:20

#2 er..was

Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-11-24 08:35

#1 BTW where is/war the hetero HIV pan-epidemic promoted by Newsweak and Tyme magazines in the 80s? /rhet question

Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-11-24 08:34

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