CDC: Gay men are 2% of the population but 55% of HIV cases

With anything gay being a popular theme among the liberal media, how is it that this important bit of news didn't come out as a major story? Was it buried? Did the MSM decide it doesn't portray gays in a positive light so they sat on it?

If this story is accurate, then you would think the gay community would be demanding public service announcements advising people to have safe sex. So why aren't they?

 

This has been pretty common knowledge for years so what is the purpose of this thread but to bash gay people? HIV infections are actually at the lowest percentages in history as well, but don't let that tidbit get in the way of the bash fest.

 

Dems have a history of ignoring negative facts when they are about their own.

HIV in gays being astronomically disproportionate to percentage of population ...ignore.
Acts of criminality and violence in Blacks being astronomically disproportionate to percentage of population ...ignore.
Terrorism being committed by Islam ...ignore.
Mass shootings being committed by hardcore Democrat supporters...ignore.
Corruption and lawlessness in Democrat politicians ...ignore.

 

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True. Yes, the HIV/STD has been on the steady decline, also according to the CDC: http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/statistics/overview/ataglance.html

 

True.

This thread is homophobic and an insult to the Gay community.

 

Gay men are very aware of the risk - but just like the millions of heterosexual people who contract HPV, the young think they are invincible (and HPV may
be responsible for more deaths from various cancers than HIV). Gay women are at far lower risk than heterosexuals.

Liberals TRIED to get more comprehensive sex education into the school system and free condoms out to the general public but some
conservatives blew brain farts all over the place and the programs have been stalled.

Want to decrease the rate of HPV and HIV - talk to your conservative buddies and lets get the information and condoms out there.

 

Sex, drugs and rock and roll....and "free" healthcare!

 

This is not news. Even the brain dead Trump University grads know that the HIV virus is passed around by gay men.

 

Middle-aged people are more likely to get tetanus than younger or older people.

 

How is saying it has been common knowledge for years ignoring it? What do you propose as a solution for it?

 

See fact critical of special interest group.

Cry racist/sexist/homophobe/etc.

But never accept the fact.

No no, never accept or acknowledge it.

Certainly don't try to fix it.

Why?

Because being able to cry "wahhhhh Republican homophobe" is far too valuable.

 

Gays are denied a wedding cake and they go insane. Gays have a much higher than normal rate of catching a deadly disease and gays/MSM are silent. It would seem the insult to the gay community is the intentional ignoring of the problem or perhaps the CDC for even reporting these facts to begin with.

And since when are facts homophobic? Do you even know what a phobia is?

 

Gays are not silent on the issue of HIV. That is a flat out lie. Also why does the media have to report on something that is common knowledge and not in dispute?

 

But not in the gay community.

That's what the article says. Read it.

 

The gay male life is rife with pathologies, some quite lethal. Lifespans are much shorter. This was well know even half a century ago when hairstylists and florists were red lined for life insurance.

It's not PC to point to this difference. We MUST be equal. Or else.

 

Yes, but they can be cured these days can't they? I mean cured of the HIV not of being 'gay'!

 

Stats are bigoted!!! Love it.

 

Not in some groups. It's gone up in Hispanic/Latino men. Welcome to the U.S., HIV and Zika. Glad your Hispanic make carriers could get you here.

 

I don't hear gays speaking up about the HIV issue, or at least it's not in the news. Same thing can be said of the weekly massacres in Chicago as it would seem the media doesn't want to report on problems which can't be blamed on conservatives, the tea party or Trump. That's why I said this story is being buried. Look, the BLM people are making their voices heard to the point the entire country is now aware of what their issues are and certain politicians are paying attention because their problem can be falsely pinned on a group not liked by the MSM and left. Yet gays are being stricken with a deadly and expensive disease, and because no one can be blamed for this but themselves and their lifestyle, the media is silent.

As for posts about common knowledge, many things in the news or on this board are often common knowledge such as the Obamacare nightmare, Clinton's corruption, etc. But I'm surprised that the left considers gay HIV problems nothing worth discussing.

 

Sure, but glamorizing sodomy isnt a good idea.

 

It's a commonly known fact that gay males have a predisposition to getting HIV (though you should note that, even in the article, they admit that less than 1/6 of gay men are likely to get the disease over their lifetime; that is, 5/6 are unlikely to do so). I dislike, however, the 'tone' of the article, so to speak; the reason for the AIDS epidemic is not, in fact, gay men being gay. Gay men, by definition, only sleep with other gay men; they're almost completely disconnected from any sort of heterosexual AIDS epidemic, and blaming them for it is both silly and inaccurate. I don't blame the AIDS epidemic on conservative homophobia, I blame it on inadequate safe sex information in our schools, and the foolishness of youth. Also, 'lifestyle'? The scientific community has acknowledged for years that being gay is either a result of genetic factors (while an individual gay person doesn't pass on their genes, their relatives do, and they have an advantage by way of having extra manpower without the extra competition), or factors in the womb. It is solely in the religious right that they think that being gay is a choice, against all evidence and personal reports. I dare you to ask any gay teen that's attempted suicide as a result of relentless bullying if they 'chose' to be gay.

I still don't see what people are fussing so much over about Zika. Only around 25% of people who have it show symptoms, and, with rare exception, it's not much worse than a common cold. While it is a danger to pregnant women, there isn't any sort of guarantee that pregnant women with Zika will have children with small heads fits just an increased likelihood of a particular birth defect. We could have an outright outbreak and it wouldn't actually be that bad.

 

What percentage of USA is transgender?

We had a good aids commercial in the 80s here in Australia -

[video=youtube;OJ9f378T49E]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ9f378T49E[/video]

HA! They ran that in the middle of the day. You could make a new one where all the pins were gays.

 

This information comes from constitution.com. Why would a website devoted to the constitution care about HIV among gay men?

Maybe constitutionalists really are bigots. Maybe "take America back" really means "get rid of people not like us."

 

I'm totally pro-SSM and I'm glad the country is more accepting of them. However, your comment is ridiculous. This is the latest report from the CDC. This is very concerning. You did not read the report, did you? Your comment is the same comment as a Klan member defending racism. "What's your point? We've had racists for years, who cares?"

 

The fact is that people are not dying from AIDS as they were in the 1980's.

No where did the Democrat party say that Democrats were going to cure the US of AIDS or that all people would refrain from unprotected sex and drug use.

HIV/AIDS is not the death sentence it was in the '80s. All other observations are biased based.