Hollywood is expert at generating sympathy for their pet causes, like this 1993 film about AIDS. The facts behind the gay culture show just how wrong this film was. It’s quite politically incorrect to even suggest this.
To actually state it and to back your statements up with verifiable statistics is downright homophobic.
AIDS was discovered in 1984. Even though the gay culture is a little more subdued these days, the advent of effective drug treatment for AIDS and HIV has shocked the scientific community, as many gays are now returning to their old free wheeling, sex-on-every-street-corner ways.
Let the facts in evidence at that time set the backstory for this film: The average gay person has 20-110 sex partners in a lifetime; heterosexuals 8. 43% of gays have more than 500 partners in a lifetime, 30% more than 1000 (half of these partners are total strangers). 70% of gay sexual encounters are one night stands. 80% of gays have STDs. 33% are alcoholics. 60% report having sex with strangers in bathrooms. 80% of these encounters involve drugs.
Gays commit 33% of all sexual molestations of children (while representing less than 1% of the population). 50% of women on death row are lesbians. Gays account for 17% of all hospital admissions (other than for STDs, for which they account for over 80% of admissions).
So, this was the gay culture until circa 1995 (and, increasingly, now).
It’s a very disturbing picture. Even more disturbing is that Hollywood would produce a film that depicts gays as saints. You leave the cinema with the utmost empathy for gays, as upright, righteous human beings. In retrospect, I don’t think any group that practices such sexual immorality deserves the least bit sympathy.
Fast forward to the modern day with the new coctail of drugs that keeps AIDS in check. The lifetime cost per patient is $300,000 (you pay for this in higher insurance premiums). Many leading AIDS researchers are leaving the field they are so offended that gays are taking advantage of the new drugs to return to their old ways.
The incidence of new AIDS cases is back up to pre-AIDS-drug levels in the U.S. (40,000 new cases a year) and exponentially higher outside of the U.S.
Still, there are many films out of Hollywood these days that continue to depict gays as saints deserving our most sincere sympathy — and our hard-earned dollars.
