Is it WRONG to use a disease like HIV/AIDS to harass Gays?

It's flat out wrong to direct an AIDS Question to the Gays only. AIDS is a disease that everyone on this planet is vulnerable to. I would rather have AIDS, than the type of personality that has the ability (like some trolls here) to use a disease to try and put people down.

What should matter most to anyone that has a problem with what they don't understand in this world, is to let their convictions of love, compassion, decency override their darker sides that urges them to post such things.

You know someone with HIV or AIDS.... We are everywhere, and all of us aren't gay. It is very easy to get. People that lightly use HIV/AIDS to harass gays in this category may one day get HIV, and remember how little sympathy you had for it... Then where will you be?

That is my opinion. What's yours?

I have had HIV for 12 years. I am not on medications, and my health is great. I go to the doctor regularly and will start meds when the time is right.

I've had trolls personally take the time to email me calling me (misspelled) "*****" and condemning me for being gay and having the HIV Virus. If I wasn鈥檛 so grounded in myself, and know myself... If I was a little down, maybe if I was on meds, this negativity wouldn鈥檛 help one bit. It might contribute to the stress factor which might make me more sick. Is that the real goal of trolls that use a disease as a weapon? Is that the kind of people trolls are. Knowing that you helped contribute to the faster death of a sick person what you are all about? Is that what you want to be known for?

There are a couple of answers here that really disturb me. Anal sex is done by everybody, not just gays. We are not pointing fingers here. The question is directed ad harassing people by using a disease as the mode of harassment.

Would the trolls go to the "senior" category and harass them for having Parkinson's or Altimeter's disease? The idea of using a disease to bring someone that is already possibly going through a hard time down is to me what the story of Sodom and Gomorrah was all about... hospitality. There are standards of decency. This is an area that you just don't screw with. People with diseases are to be helped in any way you can.

Read the question, where's the love and compassion?

If a person when speaking about AIDS/HIV directs it to gays, he is saying "I am an uneducated bigot that doesn't understand that AIDS/HIV is a disease that affects any human, male, female, gay, straight, tall, thin, fat, blind, deaf, short or what have you".

I think it's wrong to harass anyone, for any reason, using any thing. That's just not right.

I just take it as an attempt from an uneducated bigot. They have no cares for anyone but their own sorry existence. Consider the source and igonore it. They aren't worth the time.

The reason AIDS has a stigma as a "gay disease" is because it first surfaced in the US in the gay community and spread from there. While most reasonably intelligent and informed people now understand that *anyone* can get it, HIV/AIDS is still widely used by ignorants to bash on those of us in the GLBT community. Also, this perceived connection to homosexuality has been used by conservatives to block funding for AIDS research, treatment, prevention and other programs. This, of course, isn't fair to either the gay community or the HIV/AIDS community which is why most GLBT advocacy and activist groups are also involved in HIV/AIDS activism.

Of Course it's wrong. I knew a straight middle aged mother of 3 who died from AIDS by using dirty needles. I know another straight man who slept around with too many woman who has HIV & neglected to tell his wife.Any person who has 1 ounce of a brain knows it's not a gay disease

I'm with you

i think it is so stupid that people throw AIDS/HIV in a gay person's face like we created the damn thing, first off any one could get cause we all doing the same damn thang having sex, it ain't just bout gays look at magic johnson he got aids and is staright i don't see nobody up in his face. society is hypocritcal they find diferent problems for different minorities cultures and liestyles everybody just needs to WAKE UP!!

Quit bashing and harrassing PERIOD.

actually, unless you know someone in North America who is either the recipient of blood transfusions or a junkie the chances are greater that anyone you know who has aids got it from unprotected anal sex with a careless gay partner or someone on the down low., sorry to burst your bubble but its still a predominantly gay disease.