mohammed farah
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AIDS as a gay disease
A common theme of anti-gay slogans is that AIDS is a gay disease which is somehow deserved. One example is the slogan "AIDS Kills Fags Dead", a parody of the advertising slogan "Raid: Kills Bugs Dead", the tagline used in television advertising for the SC Johnson insecticide. It thus implicitly identifies gay men with vermin fit for extermination.
The slogan appeared during the early years of AIDS in the United States, when the disease was mainly diagnosed among male homosexuals and was almost invariably fatal. The slogan caught on quickly as a catchy truism, a chant, or simply something written as graffiti. It is reported that the slogan first appeared in public in the early 1990s, when Sebastian Bach, lead singer of the heavy metal band Skid Row, wore it on a t-shirt. [10] A variant of this is "AIDS cures fags", a role reversal which makes homosexuality the disease and the inevitable death from AIDS the "cure".
The phrase has been used by religious opponents of homosexuality. It was for example seen in 1998 at the funeral of Matthew Shepard, a victim of anti-gay violence, when a group led by Fred Phelps of the Westboro Baptist Church staged a protest.
Data from the Center for Disease Control show that among males in the United States 56.8 percent of those cases are likely to have contracted the condition through homosexual sex.[11] Worldwide, however, the epidemic has touched primarily people engaged in opposite-sex behaviors, and medical evidence indicates the disease is propagated not because the sex of the partner is the same as one's own, but as a result of unhygienic sexual behaviors (such as unprotected relations with multiple partners concurrent with an absence of protective techniques). Large numbers of straight women who are HIV positive were in monogamous relationships with their husbands, but were infected due to their husbands' infidelity or I.V. drug use. HIV is most commonly transmitted through direct contact with blood. AIDS often enters the body though infected semen coming in contact with the blood of another individual. Some practices, such as anal sex, are particularly prone to transmit HIV.
A common theme of anti-gay slogans is that AIDS is a gay disease which is somehow deserved. One example is the slogan "AIDS Kills Fags Dead", a parody of the advertising slogan "Raid: Kills Bugs Dead", the tagline used in television advertising for the SC Johnson insecticide. It thus implicitly identifies gay men with vermin fit for extermination.
The slogan appeared during the early years of AIDS in the United States, when the disease was mainly diagnosed among male homosexuals and was almost invariably fatal. The slogan caught on quickly as a catchy truism, a chant, or simply something written as graffiti. It is reported that the slogan first appeared in public in the early 1990s, when Sebastian Bach, lead singer of the heavy metal band Skid Row, wore it on a t-shirt. [10] A variant of this is "AIDS cures fags", a role reversal which makes homosexuality the disease and the inevitable death from AIDS the "cure".
The phrase has been used by religious opponents of homosexuality. It was for example seen in 1998 at the funeral of Matthew Shepard, a victim of anti-gay violence, when a group led by Fred Phelps of the Westboro Baptist Church staged a protest.
Data from the Center for Disease Control show that among males in the United States 56.8 percent of those cases are likely to have contracted the condition through homosexual sex.[11] Worldwide, however, the epidemic has touched primarily people engaged in opposite-sex behaviors, and medical evidence indicates the disease is propagated not because the sex of the partner is the same as one's own, but as a result of unhygienic sexual behaviors (such as unprotected relations with multiple partners concurrent with an absence of protective techniques). Large numbers of straight women who are HIV positive were in monogamous relationships with their husbands, but were infected due to their husbands' infidelity or I.V. drug use. HIV is most commonly transmitted through direct contact with blood. AIDS often enters the body though infected semen coming in contact with the blood of another individual. Some practices, such as anal sex, are particularly prone to transmit HIV.
