[Political Junkie Too]

For the same reason that they mass-induced the fear that AIDS was a disease that anybody could get:

They were afraid that if Americans believed that AIDS/Monkeypox was a "gay disease" preventable by safe sex practices, then Americans would not support diverting research resources from heart disease, cancer, childhood diseases, diabetes, etc., to solve "gay diseases."

-PJ

[Texan]

For the same reason that they mass-induced the fear that AIDS was a disease that anybody could get

Yep. The elderly ladies in my bridge club were all concerned about getting it until I pointed out that it was a homosexual men's disease and they could relax.