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These clubs encourage a culture of promiscuity, anonymous sex, barebacking and other types of sex without condoms in a culture that harbors the largest number of HIV carriers in the US.
Sure, the gunman killed 50 people in couple hours. But how many more have been killed, egged on/enabled by these establishments over time? My guess is that it's more than 50. Are they passive-aggressively murderous? Are the denizens that seek them out regularly suicidal?
Thoughts?
In fact, one of the most outspoken people against these types of gathering places and the things he knew all too well they promoted, was a gay journalist named "Randy Shilts". He's the same guy who wrote the biography about LGBT beloved pedophile/gay activist Harvey Milk.
Randy Shilts was gutsy, brash and unforgettable. He died 10 years ago, fighting for the rights of gays in American society.
Sure, the gunman killed 50 people in couple hours. But how many more have been killed, egged on/enabled by these establishments over time? My guess is that it's more than 50. Are they passive-aggressively murderous? Are the denizens that seek them out regularly suicidal?
Thoughts?
And, by extension, are these clubs passive-aggressively performing negligent homicide on the nation as a whole by fostering ground-zero spreading zones for one of the deadliest and most expensive epidemics in recent times? Gayness + promiscuity + anonymous partners (they're least likely to care enough about to protect) = our HIV epidemic. And what do these clubs promote and enable? Gayness + promiscuity + anonymous partners as a gathering ground to meet up and head off for quick sex.The Numbers
New HIV Infections
- In 2010, gay and bisexual men accounted for 63% of estimated new HIV infections in the United States and 78% of infections among all newly infected men. From 2008 to 2010, new HIV infections increased 22% among young (aged 13-24) gay and bisexual men and 12% among gay and bisexual men overall. Gay and Bisexual Men | HIV by Group | HIV/AIDS | CDC
In fact, one of the most outspoken people against these types of gathering places and the things he knew all too well they promoted, was a gay journalist named "Randy Shilts". He's the same guy who wrote the biography about LGBT beloved pedophile/gay activist Harvey Milk.
Randy Shilts was gutsy, brash and unforgettable. He died 10 years ago, fighting for the rights of gays in American society.
..the career of Randy Shilts, author of "And the Band Played On: Politics, People and the AIDS Epidemic," who died of AIDS himself 10 years ago today...Shilts' sense of purpose was passionate and he never backed down from his own most controversial beliefs. And Shilts' own success manifestly delighted him. Being both feisty and cocky, naturally, he made enemies. The late Bob Ross, editor and publisher of the Bay Area Reporter, described Shilts as a traitor to his own kind. In part that was because in stories he wrote for The Chronicle, where in 1981 he became the first openly gay employee, he advocated the closing of gay bathhouses as a means of containing the spread of AIDS. Asking people to forsake a sexual freedom that was so new and enthralling led to Shilts' being spat upon on Castro Street.
Shilts was many things to many people: an author, an activist, a pioneer, a turncoat. But to himself he was first and foremost a reporter; he moved through the world around him, his world, filing reports.
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