I guess the closest thing we have to condemning straights for "bareback" sex is the fact that the welfare laws have been changed so that you get any additional benefits for any more babies once you sign up. And guess what....the birth rate has gone down.

Unfortunately for gay men the risk of getting, living with, and then wasting away from HIV has NOT had a similar effect on the rates of new HIV infection, particularly in young men of color (which was widely reported in the last month).

Out of compassion we have programs that give HIV medications to people in need...maybe if the medications that are helping people live weren't free, and you had to pay for them yourself if you wanted to live guys would be more careful. Talk about irony.

Lastly....we have never been on equal ground with straight society. No one is gonna help us, we have to help ourselves. And no one is gonna do us in faster than we will do ourselves in by spreading HIV in our community. Guess we haven't learned anything in 20 years.