So you are comfortable with incest and interspecies sex too? How do you define societal interest? Since male homosexuals have an average life-span of about 45 years (on a par with IV drug users) and the cost to treat the medical conditions associated with the lifestyle exceeds normal lifestyles, should we draw the line or pay the costs? I for one, don't care to be forced to pay the cost for a destructive public health issue that is a personal choice. Furthermore, AIDS patients are dominated by male homosexuals and are breeding grounds for highly resistant bacterial strains. In short, male homos especially, are a huge public health issue.
If AIDS treatment and drugs were not subsidized by everyone else, very few homosexuals (or anyone else) would be able to pay for them.
I have sympathy for those infected with HIV due to transfusions or needle sticks. Actually a great deal of sympathy, because if it were not for homosexuals, and to a lesser extent, drug addicts (who are often prostitutes into the bargain), the blood supply wouldn't be tainted.
But for those who engage in the very acts that everyone above the age of 5 knows will give them AIDS, my sympathy doesn't extend to wanting to distribute the contents of my wallet.