I kinda disagree. If one even suggested quarantines, identifying and testing of all partners, etc., one was labeled a homophobe. Testing was done, maybe still is, by numbers, not names. The gay community raised an incredible stink when any real measures were brought up. At about this time, I was diagnosed with TB. I had broken some ribs coughing, and gotten an xray at Milwaukee General. They gave me pain pills and sent me home. The next day they called, and asked me to stop by to dicuss my xrays. Upon entering the hospital, I was escorted by a guard to the TB ward, and did not get out until 7 months later. My TB was diagnosed as atypical, and I probably caught it gardening. Not contagious. Lilies, who knew? Point being, TB is curable, AIDS ain't!
". . . one was labeled a homophobe."
Exactly. That's why proper behavior wasn't exercised, by the gay community. They had an "out" for precisely that reason.
Wow! How long ago was that? Does this still happen today?
True in so many ways.