Posted by Dwight:
"Sexual recklessness is the right wing's victory over gays. Politics is a lot deeper than people realize."

The denial and dismissive responses that will often greet this topic only validate your point, Dwight. The gays who disown other gays as not being in the right (no pun intended) because of their inappropriate or unsafe behavior are amazingly oblivious to this process. They will often preach about responsibility and "getting over it." Yet, they don't acknowledge the responsibility that we all have in addressing the core of this behavior if we are to effectively confront it and decrease HIV and STD infections. Something is clearly not working -- or has gone drastically wrong. Rather than re-direct the current finger-pointing and shame tactics, the nay-sayers have decided to put the fright machines into high gear.

It isn't working. I don't think it is that HIV awareness or the fear of it has lessened. I sense that there are many gays who have literally become numbed by the constant preaching about appropriate sexual behavior. The result is internalized shame, guilt, defiance, and apathy expressed in their sexual conduct.

Read the responses and reactions in this thread and judge for yourself.