Did political correctness regarding AIDS in the 80s and 90s hurt homosexuals?

I have heard about research that says that alot of damage was done in the 80's and 90's in the gay community as far as AIDS is concerned. It says that alot of money and resources were spent broadly, warning everybody (because anybody could get it) of the dangers of AIDS, instead of focusing on helping mainly the gay community, which was the community that needed it the most. However, because of overreaction to avoid stereotyping, society was preaching more about how anybody could get it, instead of focusing on the highest risk group (statistically) and thus those who actually needed help the most didn't get as much as they should have. The result, according to this is that many homosexuals missed out on help and resources that could have gone to them.
This question is not meant to be either pro or anti gay, but rather a discussion about how political correctness affects our society.
I am by far no expert on AIDS, so feel free to correct me if needed. All points of view welcomed.

I apologize. I see my question was a little repetitous.

You are partly correct. (before I go any further, yes I'm gay).

In the early part of the 80's, when the disease was first coming to the fore, many people were quite hostile to the idea of even helping gays, even Ronald Reagan denied there was a problem until it had gotten too much out of hand. Fast forward to the 90's and yes, to a degree there was too much of a broadening of the campaign to end aids, but at the same time gays were also coming into their own as a political force. These two positions, aids awareness and equality rights for gays, hit head on. The result was a society trying to come to grips with a disease and at the same time trying to absorb the changes in attitude and law regarding gays.

Now we come to the 21st century and we hear that some younger gays now have a fetishistic attitude towards aids, some even seeking it out. It's a strange thing. I buried 47 friends through the 80's and early 90's and now, it seems we are no further ahead.

The tragedy is that no one group is either immune from criticism or can claim the higher moral ground. Everyone made horrible decisions and choices, and we are still living with them.

why u need political coreect sound like not natural ways
homosexual is blessed

You should check out my question on here. I am protesting the permenant banning of homosexuals from donating blood. Currently women who have had sex with bisexuals are banned for 12 months and men who have had even one sex act with another man are banned from donating blood.

It didn't hurt gays in particular, it hurt society as a whole because the slow response to HIV-AIDs was definitely a factor in the spread of the disease.
Unfortunately I don't entirely agree with your assertion that the gay community needed it most. Several countries failed to introduce good blood screening protocols even though the means were available. Nowadays a gay man is less likely to be infected with HIV than many other groups. The main growth of HIV infection at present is in sub-Saharan Africa where the straight population is under threat. If you want to point fingers, try first of all the Catholic Church and the pro-life lobby in the US.

I don't think so - very early on we learned what safe sex practices were and how they could reduce the risk.

I think people are just now getting over blaming gays for aids.( public perception , not a fact ) but it hurt the image of gays a lot.

Political correctness didn't hurt homosexuals, lack of knowledge did. People weren't told how to protect themselves from AIDS or even what AIDS was.

Scientists were trying to compete with each other over who could identify the virus first and then who could find a cure first. The CDC didn't change the definition of HIV/AIDS until 1996, which then said basically that HIV/AIDS doesn't discriminate race, gender or orientation.

Even today, kids are taught to abstain from sex until marraige, which honestly isn't going to happen in today's society. Most of the general public doesn't fully understand HIV/AIDS or what it actually does to the body's immune system. They aren't taught to get tested, or how it can be transmitted, hence there are myths that people believe and truths that they don't.

I'd blame politics and science for lack of knowledge.