It primarily spread among people who had unprotected sex, anal sex, and promiscuous sex as well as people who shared needles. That last bit is irrelevant here but the first three sums up a good portion of fhe gay male community in the late 70s. If there’s no pregnancy and no sex Ed talking about disease why bother with protection. Promiscuity was common by cultural norm. And anal is self explanatory, gay men notoriously have idiosyncratically particular sex.
It wasn’t just gay men, trans women (of the culturally gay male variety, the stealth hets and culturally lesbian ones fared like our communities) and bi men were dropping like flies for similar reasons. It spread to lesbians who believed ourselves immune and promptly blamed the bisexuals, the sluts, and the leatherwomen. IV drug users were dying too and straight promiscuous people were dealing with it as well.
Today it doesn’t affect us more. When nobody cared we learned. These days last I checked we had lower rates of hiv than the general population
It primarily spread among people who had unprotected sex, anal sex, and promiscuous sex as well as people who shared needles. That last bit is irrelevant here but the first three sums up a good portion of fhe gay male community in the late 70s. If there’s no pregnancy and no sex Ed talking about disease why bother with protection. Promiscuity was common by cultural norm. And anal is self explanatory, gay men notoriously have idiosyncratically particular sex.
It wasn’t just gay men, trans women (of the culturally gay male variety, the stealth hets and culturally lesbian ones fared like our communities) and bi men were dropping like flies for similar reasons. It spread to lesbians who believed ourselves immune and promptly blamed the bisexuals, the sluts, and the leatherwomen. IV drug users were dying too and straight promiscuous people were dealing with it as well.
Today it doesn’t affect us more. When nobody cared we learned. These days last I checked we had lower rates of hiv than the general population