Yeah, well, as a group they haven't woken up here, unfortunately. If you will pardon the terminology, responsible gay citizens are getting screwed by the political gay movement. And most still haven't figured it out.
As I pointed out a long time ago, to a gay relative, the militant gay organizations (ACT Up) have fostered the spread of a AIDS and are responsible for more deaths than any of the straw men they blame for same. Talk about pissing into the wind. He still claims Reagan wanted to kill all homosexuals. How do you reason with that?
Regarding Reagan. The issue is that it took 3 years for Surgeon General Coop to pursuade Reagan of the importance of issuing a national alert to every household about the dangers of this new disease. It wasn’t until the death of Rock Hudson, whom I guess he knew, that Coop was able to do what could have saved thousands of lives if it had been done earlier. I remember the day I received it in the mail and thought, well, it’s about time. I guy I knew who knew I was medically literate and following this issue asked me if I thought it was safe for him to date a guy who was HIV positive, since the guy had a letter from his Doctor saying he did NOT have AIDS. I said, “are you (and especially this criminally irresponsible doctor) crazy? HIV IS THE DISEASE, AIDS is merely the symptom.