True, but the AIDS threat to the homosexual population was downplayed at the same time that it was overblown vis-a-viz the heterosexual population.
Anyone who said anything like “you homosexual guys need to change your ways or you’re all going to get wiped out” was despised and hounded into silence.
David Horowitz wanted to close down the bathhouses of San Francisco in order to reduce the communication of HIV/AIDS. Gays chose to "live in denial" (a popular liberal stratagem). Liberal politicians and press obliged homosexuals, and Horowitz made absolutely no progress. Liberals and gays won and got what they wanted. Homosexuals died as a result. Another case of unintended consequences.
I know the reason why it’s reached such large proportions in Africa among heteros. It’s also the reason you’ll never hear it on O’ Reilley or most any other informational show, although Rush Limbaugh did touch on it years ago.
The Aids virus spreads through blood. NOT “Body Fluids”, as was widly spread in the 80s, but BLOOD. In Africa, one of the chief methods of birth control is anal sex. Anal sex causes bleeding. End of story. If you keep yourself to several sexual partners a year, and if everyone’s hetero, no one uses drugs, and there’s no unprotected anal sex-your chances of catching it are about the same as being struck by lightening. Read all that in a British medical report years ago, but it was silenced. Limbaugh read the same report, and said on his show (”I should keep my mouth shut, but...here I go”)that if everyone would just stop having unprotected anal sex and sharing needles, the disease would virtually disappear in a matter of years. I’d still like to know how Magic Johnson’s wife and (unborn at the time, back when he was diagnosed)child managed to avoid contracting it.