After watching the film “And The Band Played On,” it changed the way I think about the AIDS virus. I used to think that AIDS was no big deal and that I could never get the virus. Then seeing how fast Aids was being spread and there was no way of stopping it was shocking. Contracting something that doesn’t have a cure, is probably the worst thing that could happen to me.

The gay community, I feel, started this whole thing. A good example, Gaetan Dugas, patient zero they call him, this man brought AIDS to the United States. Although he didn’t know he had it, he did know about condoms. This man on average had about 250 gay partners a year. In just two months the cases of AIDS went from 80 to 160. That is only with 15 of the 50 states reporting. If the gay people of America wouldn’t have so much

In closing the group I believe was most responsible for the vast spreading of the AIDS virus was the gay community. Because of the careless actions and unprotected sex that was going on in the 1980’s, we all have to live with the fear of contracting AIDS.

unprotected sex, we might have been able to keep this under control. They spread this disease and managed to get in into the straight community.

Politicians could have done a lot more then they did about AIDS. But because this started out as a gay thing, politicians were stating out of it. I really do not blame politicians, because all they knew was that aids had to do with gay people, and they don’t like gays, and so did the rest of America. Once it got into the straight community then it became a big deal, and it was already too late. When president Regan first addressed AIDS, 25,0

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