[neverdem]

From low self esteem to gays in the military and gay marriage, this article seems to run the gamut.

[neverdem]

FReepmail me if you want on or off my health and science ping list.

[ClearCase_guy]

"We have to decide whether we're going to be selfish or whether we're going to care about one another."

I think that's going to be a reaaaalllly tough decision. [/sarcasm]

Face it, fellas, it's a Culture of Death. You know the risks. And you don't care.

[Thebaddog]

Abstinence? Was the word abstinence used in the article?

[traderrob6]

GRRRRRRRR typical NYT stinkin cowpie. If you don't by now know enough to protect yourself from risky behavior, you have alot bigger problems than conntracting AIDS

[little jeremiah]

Homosexual Agenda Ping.

This really comments on itself. All the doozies - the best one is that "gays" take meth, try to get AIDS, bareback, have promiscuous anonymous "sex", become drug addicts, are mentally unstable and suicidal - all because nasty society, churches, and families reject them. Internalized homophobia.

Well, gang, what do you think of that?

If it's true, than those who faithfully believe in and try to serve God should all have the same or worse behaviors, since we're much more "marginalized" and hated than homosexuals. At least by the MSM and TPTB.

Let DirtyHarryY2K and me know if you want on/off this pinglist.

[Izzy Dunne]

"If everyone in your group is beautiful, taking steroids, barebacking and H.I.V. positive, having the virus doesn't seem like such a bad thing."

Is your life really so worthless ???

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Anything but self-governance. Further, the public is to pay for the instruments of vice. Better to pay for the lash, the whip and the knout!

[Tall_Texan]

As for condoms, the frontline defense against sexually transmitted diseases,...

Well, that's the problem right there. Gays would rather have a backdoor defense to sexually transmitted diseases.

[Cicero]

"Where have all the condoms gone?" Sounds like a 60s rock tune.

The author develops the sneaking suspicion that gay New Yorkers are . . . just . . . a . . . little . . . teensy . . . bit . . . crazy.

But how can that be? I thought the American Psychological Association voted they are just as normal as apple pie.

[mabelkitty]

All that Federal money those AIDS charities are getting is being used for circuit parties - can't buy condoms and print literature when one has to provide camp Queen B-listers with tina appetizers.

[AmericanChef]

-prevention workers are planning a series of events that seek to promote "connectedness and community."-

Seems to me there's just too much connectedness going on. Male/female sex has an automatic control: the female. Male/male has none. The men might be gay, but they're still men. Predators. Sex is more urgent than safety.

[Nick Danger]

"AIDS has had a long run at the top of the charts. But like all diseases, people lose interest in it. If they haven't gotten it by now, they figure they probably won't.

Besides, we got this Marburg virus now that makes your skin fall off in chunks and blood squirt out your ears. It's hard to get excited about something that might kill you in ten years with pneumonia, when something like that is on the loose. That one's riding a rocket to the #1 disease.

Our current #1 is the Bird Flu, which some scientists say will kill us all by a week from Wednesday. But after fans burned a few million chickens during its last appearance in North Korea, Bird Flu appears to be headed down as well.

Be sure to tune in next week. Will Marburg take the #1 spot? Will Ebola make a comeback? And just what has SARS been doing in the studio for the last year?

[MoochPooch]

And I'm supposed to feel sorry for these people because they contracted a disease they brought on themselves?


Boo hoo. (sarcasm)

[pfony1]

Promiscuity = Low Self Esteem = Death Wish

This is NOT a complex story...

I wonder when the MSM will start reporting the tragedy here -- without romanticizing it...

[pfony1]

Promiscuity = Low Self Esteem = Death Wish

This is NOT a complex story...

I wonder when the MSM will start reporting the tragedy here -- without romanticizing it...

[moonman]

"We have to decide whether we're going to be selfish or whether we're going to care about one another."

Gays are THE most self-centered people on Earth. It's ALWAYS bout 'ME'.

Most definately, they will STAY selfish!

[humblegunner]

"People are not taking risks because they're stupid, or because they wake up one day and say, 'I'm going to take a risk today,' " Dr. Halkitis said. "They do it because the sexual risk fulfills a need, or somehow makes them feel better about themselves."

Yeah, right up until they die they feel better.

[ozzymandus]

I have to admit, I'm pretty apathetic about AIDS myself. If people want to expose themselves to such a terrible disease just to look cool to each other, so be it. As long as they stay away from me, I don't care what they do to each other.

[Oztrich Boy]

"We are the long-term survivors who watched friends die, who never thought we'd live to have a midlife crisis," said Mr. Staley, who is H.I.V.-positive and himself a recovering meth addict. "Then the new medications came along, and suddenly everyone returned to their old lives and people moved on to other issues, like gays in the military and gay marriage. Where was the communal processing of the emotional hell we had just gone through? I think as a result we're a deeply scarred group."

Poor baby!

[DTogo]

"If everyone in your group is beautiful, taking steroids, barebacking and H.I.V. positive, having the virus doesn't seem like such a bad thing."

T.M.I.