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WHy do people assume that gay people always have AIDS?

I have heard numerous connections between being gay & AIDS; Why is sexual orientation factor in concocting this disease? How would it even be transmitted (without being too graphic)? Wouldn`t heterosexuals have as much a chance as homosexuals? How did the rumor start, anyways?

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torogay 		Gay men were the first people diagnosed with AIDS. They weren`t the first to get it by any means; Plenty of heterosexuals no doubt died without ever being diagnosed; They aren`t largest population that have it, either - heterosexuals are (by proxy of the fact that homo-sexuals only make up roughly 10% of population). They sought answers & medical care; They had disposable income to seek out the best doctors.

During the time period before it was recognized - it was time in American history when being gay wasn`t something that had to be hidden away, men (and women) felt free to socialize - & they were promiscuous. I had MANY gay friends - I know! Bathhouses, Fire Island, Studio 54, sex sex sex! Hundreds of years of repression unleashed a mad fury of freedom for them.

I lost more than my share of friends in the early & mid-80s. Both male & female. It had more to do with time than anything else.

Homosexuality isn`t a factor in concocting disease; If you look at it from the proper perspective. it`s gay men that saved it being more endemic in this country than it is; Without them, it would have spread unchecked through the population.

They were the canary in the mine; (And that`s how the rumor started, friend; )

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gaykerk 		well gay people usually have anal sex without condoms. Thats the only hole

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torogay 		For many people, HIV is associated with sexual deviance, & for those same people, homosexuality is form of such deviance

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gaykerk 		It`s a stereotype; It is true that there is a higher incidence of HIV/AIDS in gay & bisexual men in the United States. Since AIDS is transmitted through bodily fluids, it`s easily transmitted during sexual intercourse (both with heterosexuals & homosexuals; it can also be transmitted through intravenous drug use, when people use unsterilized needles that an infected person has already used). I`m not sure exactly why there`s a higher incidence of AIDS in gay men in the US; I do know that it`s different in other countries, though. In some African countries there`s a huge problem with married women contracting AIDS from their philandering husbands. It`s just as easy for hetero-sexual to contract AIDS as it is for a homosexual; unsafe sexual practices are bad news for anyone, regardless of sexual orientation

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jimmygay 		the anal passage is easier to get small tears in it that make it easy for the AIDS to enter into the body so anyone having anal sex is at a greater risk at catching std`s. Also anyone can get an std; Std`s don`t care about your color, age, sex or sexual preference

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jimmygay 		When HIV/AIDS was first discovered it was believed to only affect homosexual men (or gay men).

The disease was originally dubbed GRID, or Gay-Related Immune Deficiency, but(!) health authorities soon realized that nearly half of the people identified with the syndrome were not homosexual men. In 1982, the CDC introduced the term HIV to describe the newly recognized syndrome, though it was still casually referred to as GRID.

Homosexual men tend to contract virus easier then hetero-sexual men because homosexual men have anal sex. the skin around the anus is very thin & can tear very easily, which can cause person to contract the virus. Since hetero-sexual men don`t usually receive anal sex their chances are much lower at contracting the STD. They can still get it from vaginal or oral sex though.
http://en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Hiv#Origin_and_discovery

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jimmygay 		please add to the list of possible transmission, tattoos & piercings with reused equipment; too many people forget these are also ways to come in contact with STD`s or blood borne pathogens. Any tear in skin can allow transmission, but(!) what has been stated is where the rumor started. With first known outbreaks, gay men were the highest known infected. Today, however it can be anyone

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gaymentop 		baby HIV have no pacific person

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