"Clooney claimed that Hollywood talked about social issues before anyone else. "We are the ones who talked about AIDS when it was just a gay disease," he said."
It is STILL just a gay disease and all the sitcoms, movies, awards, media hype, fundraisers and screaming isn't going to ever change that one fundamental fact.
He's the spokesman for the self-congratulatory ruling class in Hollywood.
You know, that just is not true! Granted it certainly came to light in the 80's in the gay community environment of San Francisco, but it's certainly spread beyond just gays. It's into the drug users and in some cases into the heterosexual community as well as some blood recipients. Also remember it was not a homosexual disease in Africa. Now, I will say, for the major part, it is a preventable disease in that, for the most part, it has to do with the decisions one makes in their life style, but it is no longer just a homosexual disease.
Hollyweird blinked because the suits only care about $$$.
Not the woman/man/intowoman movie did not even hit the radar.
".was just a 'gay' disease," because politics prevented proper medical protocols to be followed. Thus the bathouses stayed open longer and high risk mental irresponsible cases could not be quarenteened.
It's gone way beyond that. About 35% of HIV transmission in this country is now heterosexual.
You can't say that to the people of southern Africa, who've lost half of an entire generation to AIDS.
Where do you get your 'facts'?