Probably AIDS related. Cancers of various kinds are de rigeur and the meningitis would be secondary to that, I suspect.
"love, sexuality and family play the same role in gay people's lives as they do for everyone else."
This is just SOOOO wrong.
I have to disagree with th author. I have known 3 guys from my high school days who have "gone over to play for the other side." In all 3 cases, it started small, grew, and grew, until there is nothing left of them but Gayness. Every issue, every perception, every reaction is judged through the QueerLens until this choice is the single focus point of their lives. If this creeping mindset focused on alcohol, or gambling, or any other vice, we would say they were addicted to something...trying to find an outside stimuli to fill some emptiness or hole in their souls. But thanks to the APA, this addiction is no more than a "lifechoice" now.