Notice the word "safer", not safe. They are lying to themselves.
It has been almost 20 years since we first heard about AIDs. At this point in time, no one should be infected with this desease. We know what it is, and we know how it spreads, and we know how it can be contained.
But as the first polictically correct desease, it is protected. I have to wonder about the sanity of homosexuals.
It is a little like the Democrats. If they would have taken the hit on Bill Clinton, and impeached him, Al Gore would be President today.
If the Homosexual community would have followed standard practices in fighting STD, AIDs would not have gotten as established in the "gay" community as it has.
The homosexuals fought against acts that would have controlled the spread of the desease, and now 20 years later it is still being spread.
I can have sympathy for a fellow human being as they waste away from a desease, but I have no sympathy for "gay" activist who wish to continue down a deadly path, all the while crying society is not doing enough for them.
Living in Northern California with the major newspapers coming out of San Francisco I have read stories where the younger "gay" men upset because they missed out in the golden age of homosexuallity of free sex before AIDs. I have also read that some do not follow safe sex practices because they want to get the desease (for reasons I can not understand). And I have read of stories of "gay" men, once they have AIDs willing to spread the desease (again for reasons I can not understand.)
These are anecdotal stories to be sure, and may not represent the homosexual community at large, but then if you (figuratively) watch the action of "gays" they would seem to be true.
As an observer on life I would have to say, coming out of the closet for "gay" men may have not been the best thing to happen to them, only time will tell.
I would tend to think that they want it in order to become a sort of martyr.
They already have an indentity crisis if they're attracted to other men. With AIDS they can host a pity party and all their friends will come (er...attend).