he's just a $hit-stirring LIAR.
AIDS was first documented in 1981, when 20-some men were found to have died from some unknown-cause, soon called GRID. That's GAY-related immune disorder (or disease).
It was pretty obvious in the gay community and to scientists at the time, that male to male sex HAD to be a contributing cause.
It took years to finally nail down the HIV virus.
Despite the fact that it was known that gay sex passes it on, what did the homosexual community do during the early years of the crisis?
Keep on having anonymous bathhouse sex.
When an instant cure wasn't found, gays started blaming...REAGAN.
As if gays would actually follow the advice laid out by Dr. Koop and stop having unprotected sex.
No sir, not good enough, Reagan is to blame.
And what a monster, "Reagan" has allowed HIV-positive Kramer to live with his disease for 35 years.
Either Kramer is lying about having HIV since 1980,or he's very lucky.
My guess is that Kramer's entire life has been a sad, useless, pathetic lie.
So Horowitz, who was still more of a liberal than a conservative at that time, and a friend of the SF homo community decided to give a speech to a number of the self-described homo leaders of SF and other assorted homos.
Horowitz sincerely thought breaking the news to the homos that using condoms would all but stop the disease in its tracks would be greeted with cheers and applause.
He was wrong. After the speech no one clapped. Horowitz was stunned. What was the problem?It turned out most of the assembled homos were upset that they would have to use condoms. They wanted an immediate cure so they could go on having condom-less anal penetration.
After that Horowitz had little sympathy for all the homos who railed about deaths from AIDs and blamed Reagan.
I have little or no sympathy myself. If a person insists on smoking five packs of cigarettes a day after fifty years of being told about cigarettes and lung cancer, why should anyone feel sorry for people who literally smoke their lungs out?