Posted on 09/02/2022 5:57:48 PM PDT by Salman
For many gay and bisexual men, the sprawling and chaotic monkeypox outbreak has upended a summer that was supposed to be a well-earned opportunity — following the peak of the Covid crisis — to finally have some fun and revel with their gay brothers without the threat of viral infection hanging over them.
Soon after Memorial Day, however, these men, as well as transgender individuals and other queer people — GBTQ for short, because lesbians’ monkeypox risk is remote — were met head-on with harrowing reports about monkeypox’s often devastating and disfiguring effects on the body. Next came anger and frustration over what queer activists characterize as the Biden administration’s fumbling initial response to the outbreak.
Lost amid the frantic media and public health reports about monkeypox epidemiology, the delayed vaccine deliveries and the squabbling over how best to communicate about the virus are the millions of GBTQ people whose happiness, well-being and connection to one another have in many cases been considerably compromised by the mere threat of monkeypox infection.
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Cry me a river. They are having trepidations about going to their massive orgies because they may get ugly for a few weeks? What snowflakes.
Apparently until now we have been holding the poor gay community back
The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men,
Gang aft agley.
An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain,
For promis’d joy!
Just say no!
"Revel", huh? Is that what they're calling it these days? Good to know. There is, of course, those other little viral problems named HIV, hepatitis C, and herpes, plus a bacterial soup of shigella, syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, enteropathogenic E. coli and other delights abounding about this, ah, revelry, but who's counting? Monkeypox spoiled the orgy scene. Quelle horreur!
FDRQ...
From the article: “ . . . because lesbians’ monkeypox risk is remote . . .”
Imagine the uproar if the word “lesbians’ “ had been replaced by “heterosexuals’ “- despite the fact that monkeypox isn’t anywhere near as prominent in either of those demographics as it is among homosexual men.
Right, it’s monkeypox’s fault, nothing to do with behavior. That so many of them believe this and cannot see the connection lends validity to the old theories about homosexuals being mentally ill.
Benjamin Ryan.
Explains everything.
Yikes!
I much prefer John Zmirak’s acronym . He writes for The Stream , another site I visit daily .
LGBTQMYNAMEISLEGION
He’ll look different with a rash of pustules around his mouth ...
Made me laugh when I saw it!
Really. You would think someone cannot be abstinent if their life depended on it.
Just curious-what did they do to “earn” this?
>> NBC News. Mainstream, right?
NBC is Comcast
I will cry myself to sleep tonight.
The Summer of George?
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