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Randy Shilts wrote these excerpts from an article reprinted below for the May 13, 1982 edition of The Chronicle. Randy Shilts was a gay journalist who was known for his dogged loyalty to the truth, even when it hurt to hear.. the term "GRID" was the old term for HIV/AIDS. It stood for "Gay Related Immune Deficiency".
Randy Shilts warned early about 'baffling diseases' in gay men
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A 45-year-old San Francisco man looked at the purple spots covering his arms, face and chest and contemplated the death sentence they might foreshadow..."Every time I see a new spot, I think I'm a step closer to death," said Jerry, a former waiter. "I don't even look in the mirror any more."
Jerry is a victim of one of a series of baffling diseases hitting primarily gay men with increasing frequency across the country...
..The numbers of gay men struck by the GRID disease passed epidemic proportions long ago and are now frightening public health officials for a number of reasons.-- In the 11 months since the first American case of a rare skin cancer known as Kaposi's sarcoma was reported to federal authorities, the cancer and the other GRID illnesses have reportedly struck 335 Americans, almost all of them gay, killing 136 -- a higher death toll than both toxic shock syndrome and Legionnaire's disease combined...
...-- Public health officials are also discovering that a laundry list of other strange diseases are striking gay men, apparently associated with a dysfunction of the patient's immune systems. These "opportunistic" diseases now account for one-sixth of GRID victims...
...-- Even more mysterious than the fact that these diseases are attacking a group with few if any common genetic physical or racial characteristics is the fact that the geographic regions where GRID victims have been found are so isolated. About half come from New York, with another quarter split almost evenly between Los Angeles and San Francisco. The remaining quarter is scattered throughout smaller centers of gay populations around the country...
...What causes this short circuit of the immune system among such a specific demographic group? Federal health officials ran profiles of 130 risk factors on the GRID victims through a computer and found that the typical patient had about twice the sexual activity of a normal American gay male, tending to be involved in bathhouses and esoteric sexual activities...
...Complicating the search is the fact that several sets of roommates and lovers have come down with the same GRID disease, leading some researchers to suggest that a viral agent may be involved...
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They were freaking out about 335 Americans having HIV back then. Now we accept well over a million people with it without a passing comment. Indeed there seems to be a deafening silence about HIV/AIDS as the LGBT propaganda machine strangles our legal system into mainstreaming the bath house/ quick-sex club culture into the mainstream.
These bath houses and clubs exist in the LGBT community for one predominant reason, and everybody knows it. They are for quick, anonymous sex hook ups; the type that carry the highest risk for HIV transmission. Why? Because the loveless LGBT sex culture doesn't care about the unknown semen receptacle. They are there merely for immediate physical release/amusement. And so, these clubs and establishments exist to passively murder thousands of gays each year. Meanwhile people mourn the more acute deaths of just 49 of them. I think it's time people start mourning the thousands too; and why they are dying..
Then why isn't the Church of LGBT having it, loud and proud? Does the discussion of the promiscuity rampant among the LGBT parishioners, and their penchant for quick anonymous sex hookups at clubs like "Pulse" interfere with the public's new love affair with your neo-religion?
Yes, guilty as charged. I want all practices that spread HIV rampantly to be curbed. Just like Randy Shilts did. He died of AIDS himself as he plead with his community to stop the madness. Their reception of him? They spat on him as he walked down the streets of the blue district in San Francisco.
So, who is it that's trying to passive-aggressively kill gays? Gays themselves. They are suicidal, rampant with co-morbid mental illness, and misery loves company. Get to the heart of THAT and you'll save more people.
Randy Shilts warned early about 'baffling diseases' in gay men
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A 45-year-old San Francisco man looked at the purple spots covering his arms, face and chest and contemplated the death sentence they might foreshadow..."Every time I see a new spot, I think I'm a step closer to death," said Jerry, a former waiter. "I don't even look in the mirror any more."
Jerry is a victim of one of a series of baffling diseases hitting primarily gay men with increasing frequency across the country...
..The numbers of gay men struck by the GRID disease passed epidemic proportions long ago and are now frightening public health officials for a number of reasons.-- In the 11 months since the first American case of a rare skin cancer known as Kaposi's sarcoma was reported to federal authorities, the cancer and the other GRID illnesses have reportedly struck 335 Americans, almost all of them gay, killing 136 -- a higher death toll than both toxic shock syndrome and Legionnaire's disease combined...
...-- Public health officials are also discovering that a laundry list of other strange diseases are striking gay men, apparently associated with a dysfunction of the patient's immune systems. These "opportunistic" diseases now account for one-sixth of GRID victims...
...-- Even more mysterious than the fact that these diseases are attacking a group with few if any common genetic physical or racial characteristics is the fact that the geographic regions where GRID victims have been found are so isolated. About half come from New York, with another quarter split almost evenly between Los Angeles and San Francisco. The remaining quarter is scattered throughout smaller centers of gay populations around the country...
...What causes this short circuit of the immune system among such a specific demographic group? Federal health officials ran profiles of 130 risk factors on the GRID victims through a computer and found that the typical patient had about twice the sexual activity of a normal American gay male, tending to be involved in bathhouses and esoteric sexual activities...
...Complicating the search is the fact that several sets of roommates and lovers have come down with the same GRID disease, leading some researchers to suggest that a viral agent may be involved...
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They were freaking out about 335 Americans having HIV back then. Now we accept well over a million people with it without a passing comment. Indeed there seems to be a deafening silence about HIV/AIDS as the LGBT propaganda machine strangles our legal system into mainstreaming the bath house/ quick-sex club culture into the mainstream.
These bath houses and clubs exist in the LGBT community for one predominant reason, and everybody knows it. They are for quick, anonymous sex hook ups; the type that carry the highest risk for HIV transmission. Why? Because the loveless LGBT sex culture doesn't care about the unknown semen receptacle. They are there merely for immediate physical release/amusement. And so, these clubs and establishments exist to passively murder thousands of gays each year. Meanwhile people mourn the more acute deaths of just 49 of them. I think it's time people start mourning the thousands too; and why they are dying..
Then why isn't the Church of LGBT having it, loud and proud? Does the discussion of the promiscuity rampant among the LGBT parishioners, and their penchant for quick anonymous sex hookups at clubs like "Pulse" interfere with the public's new love affair with your neo-religion?
Yes, guilty as charged. I want all practices that spread HIV rampantly to be curbed. Just like Randy Shilts did. He died of AIDS himself as he plead with his community to stop the madness. Their reception of him? They spat on him as he walked down the streets of the blue district in San Francisco.
So, who is it that's trying to passive-aggressively kill gays? Gays themselves. They are suicidal, rampant with co-morbid mental illness, and misery loves company. Get to the heart of THAT and you'll save more people.
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