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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / AIDS / April 2006AIDS Walk San Francisco - 2006
Hello. I am participating in this years AIDS Walk in San Francisco. Please help me prevent this terrible disease from continuing to kill people. HIV/AIDS affects us all, not just those who are infected. For more information or to donate please use the following link. http://aidswalksanfrancisco2006.kintera.org/phil_lasiter living_proof wrote... > Hello. I am participating in this years AIDS Walk in San Francisco. > Please help me prevent this terrible disease from continuing to kill > people. HIV/AIDS affects us all, not just those who are infected. For > more information or to donate please use the following link. > > http://aidswalksanfrancisco2006.kintera.org/phil_lasiter And how is walking a few miles going to do what a trillion dollars of graphic propaganda hasn't? Like last month's anti-war rally was just an excuse for Marxists to gather and praise Cuba, this AIDS parade thing is just an excuse for gays to gather and have unprotected sex behind dumpsters. While I may not believe in all of the mainstream junk on 'HIV/AIDS,' I am not a homophobe, and have been disgusted by some of the homophobic remarks I have read here and in some other forums discussing this. Any homophobes on this list, do you think it is possible for you to debate in this forum in a civilized manner, without resorting to using your internet account to harass LGBT folks with homophobic remarks? Can some not challenge some of this without gay bashing? Too much to ask? Too difficult? This is really not helping your arguments, imo, and perhaps the employment of homophobia by some in arguments against mainstream 'HIV/AIDS' stuff might be one reason why more have not listened to some people's arguments in the past? Whatever dude, this is truly rude. Bee wrote... > While I may not believe in all of the mainstream junk on 'HIV/AIDS,' I > am not a homophobe, and have been disgusted by some of the homophobic [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Whatever dude, this is truly rude. Homophobia? I'm the group's resident gay-bashing faggot, while I have nothing against homosexuality in itself, I am disgusted by the behavior my fellow gays exhibit. There is a reason that HIV/AIDS is practically synonymous with homosexuals. What is so homophobic about pointing out that the smug self-righteous AIDS Parade participants will have unprotected sex the night before the parade, march down the street protesting that the government is not doing enough to fight the epidemic, then have unprotected sex again that night? And I really would be surprised if they could restrain themselves during the parade - I have visions of leather daddies pausing to f.ck on a fire hydrant. If you want to call my observation of contemporary gay culture homophobic then go ahead, I don't care because I know it is the truth. BTW, what's this little parade supposed to accomplish anyway? I hear talk about "educating" the public, but I was educated a long time ago and as a result I don't have AIDS. Who exactly is the target for their education? Who could possibly be so isolated as to not have heard of the disease and how it is spread? Are we talking about the mole people who live in the New York subway tunnels? Are there some feral hillbilly children living in the woods who haven't heard about it? Instead of being just a metaphor, are there people who really live under rocks? > Bee wrote... >> While I may not believe in all of the mainstream junk on 'HIV/AIDS,' I [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > my fellow gays exhibit. There is a reason that HIV/AIDS is practically > synonymous with homosexuals. Only in the US and that is rapidely changing with gay men now representing less then one half of new HIV infections in the US. > What is so homophobic about pointing out that the smug self-righteous > AIDS Parade participants will have unprotected sex the night before [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > contemporary gay culture homophobic then go ahead, I don't care because > I know it is the truth. Do you honestly think unsafe sex is only occuring in the gay community? Yes there are gay men who behave as you describe just as there are HIV positive hetro's who behave badly. That does not however prove that such behaviour is the norm in either population. > BTW, what's this little parade supposed to accomplish anyway? I hear > talk about "educating" the public, but I was educated a long time ago [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > children living in the woods who haven't heard about it? Instead of > being just a metaphor, are there people who really live under rocks? Prevention of HIV education in the US has had significant impact in that without it the HIV epidemic would be much worse then it is. However it is not nearly as effective as it needs to be in order to end the HIV epidemic in this country. One of the reasons for the failure has been the interference of the anti-sex education lobby in this country. The resistance to making condoms freely available and the insistence that abstinence only sex education curriculums be adopted by public schools plays a large role in HIV infection rates in the US. The other main failure has been the lack of funding to do the research needed to identify the real scale and scope of HIV infection by identifiable demographic groupings. No one knows how many undiagnosed HIV positive gay men, black people, Latinos, or white hetro's there are in the US nor is there data that describes the size of the populations most at risk for HIV infection. Without that data it is impossible to create prevention programs whose effectiveness can be measured or to create prevention interventions that target there message specifically enough to be effective. Gary Stein "lack of funding to do the research needed to identify the real scale and scope of HIV infection " Where's the evidence that says that this is an epidemic...more people die of bowel cancer in the UK each year than have died of AIDS in the last 25 years in the UK (ref WHO states, UK Stats)...and the funding for this screening programme has been delayed (£37.5m)...the funding of HIV/AIDS is, proportionately well in excess of the numbers of people likely to be really affected by this disease. We should place the funding that affects the most people not a subset who, if they thought about, could significantly reduce their own problem. Check the facts - not the hype Russell >> Bee wrote... >>> While I may not believe in all of the mainstream junk on 'HIV/AIDS,' I [quoted text clipped - 61 lines] > > Gary Stein
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