[alexander_busek]

In the 80s when AIDS was becoming a big deal, I used to sell insurance. Health insurance. I met a man who was so handsome it was unbelievable. But he told me he knew that he needed this health insurance because he was going to get AIDS. He told me that he spent his weekends crawling around on his hands and knees in these bathhouses in San Francisco. I had no clue what he was talking about. But I pretty much figured out he must be gay.

Did you sell him a policy?

I wonder if his health insurance company realized a profit on his policy.

Regards,

[tinamina]

You have to take an application and send it to the underwriter. They make the ultimate decision. These were city and county of San Francisco employees.
But after this I noticed that a lot of the gay guys who had aids would come around wanting disability insurance and when you would ask them if they’ve ever been diagnosed with AIDS or arc, which soon became a part of the application, they would say I was discriminating against them. I would tell them no it’s just like a fire. You can’t get fire insurance after your house is burned down can you? They wanted the lawsuit.
I did have one guy who I sold some life insurance to come back and tell me that he sold it (viatical) because people were buying gay man’s life insurance policies from them and he made some money on it so he wanted another one.