Wednesday October 4, 2006
California Homosexual Organization Admits HIV/AIDS is "Gay Disease"
By Gudrun Schultz
LOS ANGELES, California, October 4, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center has abandoned a long-held homosexual activist contention by declaring on billboards posted throughout Southern California that HIV/AIDS is a “gay disease.”
According to a report by the Los Angeles Times, the Center is trying to address rapidly increasing HIV infection rates among the homosexual population by rallying the gay community to increasing vigilance against exposure to the disease. Activists for the homosexual lifestyle have, until this current development, strongly, and sometimes vehemently refused to admit that the disease is predominantly generated among homosexual men.
The ad campaign, which is also running in magazines, is in part a response to the findings of public health officials, who have noted that three out of four cases of HIV infections are found in men who engage in homosexual activity, the United Press International reported.
In 2005 US health officials reported an alarming eight percent increase in HIV infection rates in one year alone among homosexual and bisexual men. The Center for Disease Control also warned that a survey of 15-29 year old men who engaged in homosexual activity “reported that the proportion of unrecognized HIV infection was as high as 77 %.”
A report by the Public Health Agency of Canada, released in August 2006, revealed a sharp increase in HIV/AIDS infections, with 51 percent of infections found in men engaging in homosexual activity.
See the CDC’s report:
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5445a1.htm
See related LifeSiteNews coverage:
HIV/AIDS Rates Rise Sharply in Canada: 51% of Infections Among Homosexual Men
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/aug/06080305.html
Homosexuality Triggering HIV Escalation
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/nov/05111812.html
Medical Journalist Says Reliance on Condoms Spreads HIV/AIDS
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/jun/06062304.html
Officials Prepare for Gay Outgames by Amassing Emergency HIV Drugs
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/jul/06073102.html
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