Warning: This episode talks about mature subjects related to the AIDS crisis and is not kid-friendly.
Excepts from Lopez article:
"Under pressure, blinded by profit motives, the AIDS industry chose not to tell gay men the truth." Are they any better than China?
"Tony Fauci has headed an institute for allergies and immunology since the early 1980s. In such a capacity he has played an integral role for over 35 years in shaping the American response to HIV and AIDS. How much do we know about his response to this crisis? Was he successful? (HInt = No)"
"The truth is, gay sex is dangerous. It always has been. If it isn’t HIV, it will be something else. The kind of sex two men have leaves both open to many more pathogens and risks. If Tony Fauci really had a keen mind about all this, he would have told gay men to stop having sex. "
"A culture had solidified by the late 1990s, a gay culture that saw HIV as a symbiotic pet with a mutualist tie to the community at large. The gay community will never let full, real numbers out about how many people have HIV. In fact, they have gotten many laws passed to make it illegal to try to find such information out. Nonetheless, I have seen figures that around 15-20% of the gay community has HIV, including about 50% of the gay black men past middle age. The rates creep up, flatten out, and then creep up again. The most alarming trend has been the increase in boys aged 14-19 getting HIV, the group with the highest increases during the 2010s."
Bobby Lopez interview about gay parenting on my old podcast:
https://youtu.be/WJkwV3ogUUo