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Reigning_King posted...

Wasn't the issue with AIDs more of a promiscuity and lack of basic safe sex practices thing more than sexual preference?

It took a while for the mechanism of transmission to be properly understood, there was a lot of confusion and misinformation, and even by the middle of the decade there still remained uncertainty and fear about whether or not it was even safe to shake hands with someone who's gay. Gay men were treated as likely carriers of a deadly disease simply on account of their sexual preference, because their sexual preference was deemed to be their "lifestyle". It was as much about perceptions of the disease and of those whom it affected as it was about its health impact.

And when people around you, who are close to you, start dying, it makes for years of shitty memories and all the hindsighted lectures about the importance of monogamy don't change that.

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