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Gay Activists Upset Over Graphic HIV PSA
- Posted on December 15, 2010 at 1:04pm by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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A new, extremely graphic, New York City public service announcement aimed at preventing HIV within the young gay community has some activists up in arms, while city officials say similar ads are effective.
The split is over language and pictures depicting one of the consequences of HIV: anal cancer. New York 1 reports on why some activists think the ad is stigmatizing, and why the city disagrees:
[Warning: Contains graphic images]
According to NBC’s New York affiliate, at least one gay rights group has come out in support of the ad. The full ad can be seen below:
[REMINDER: Some of the images are disturbing]





















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Comments (113)
Oil_Robb
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 2:12pmLOLOL…….These Sodomites are complaining about beeing stigmatized?
Report Post »They have stigmatized themselves. Who are the ones that are spreading the disease by violently thrusting thier male genetalia into a filthy area where another man evacuates his bowels?
americanfreedompatriot
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 2:31pmyeah, that’s a whole lot less than violently thrusting your male genetalia into something that bleeds out on a regular basis.
Report Post »NoVampires
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 12:08amBlood, bowels. You people are too funny. I just do it with myself. It’s clean. No problems.
Report Post »“ violently thrusting your male genetalia”
ROTFLMAO
Jaiden73
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 10:38am@ americanfreedompatriot – the “bleed(ing) on a regular basis” is a natural cleansing process that is in no way unnatural. Besides, I would rather be with and stay something that bleeds on a regular basis. At least it lubricates naturally rather than relying on store-bought assistance for every random encounter.
Report Post »JFK4EVA
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 2:10pmThe only thing that’s disgusting is the utter bigotry shown in almost every one of these comments. You people are ignorant bigots, plain and simple. But I find solace in the fact that, although you’ll keep fighting tooth and nail for to cling to your hateful medieval morality, your shouting will steadily and inevitably be reduced to an innocuous whisper as the vast majority of Americans come to accept gay people as people too. I know you’ll keep up with the dehumanizing till the very end, but you know what, he end is in sight, whether you like it or not. So get with the program people – maybe actually allow yourself to get to know someone who’s different from yourself. Or continue on with a miserable, hate-filled existence. Your choice.
Report Post »NoVampires
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 12:02amI agree that some comments are not positive, but you take no responsibility for what the gay agenda is doing to the nation. You only leash out at the ones that are frustrated about it. The frustration is due to the fact that the gay agenda is working and this offers an outlet to let people know how it feels to be powerless.
Homosexuals have been frustrated for sometime about their issues not being heard, but they feel a little better now that HIV/AIDS affect heterosexuals too. In fact it was a purposeful event to ensure this happened “you will pay attention now that your babies have HIV.”
In any event, I believe that this issue will take care of itself. We are becoming sophisticated in the sciences and new discoveries are made everyday. I believe HIV will be eradicated but so will other social issues that make society dysfunctional and unproductive. Obamacare is the beginning to getting rid of those contributors (people that take up a lot of resources to care for, I let you fill in the blank. But don’t be so thinned skinned in identifying gays here, try old seniors and the disabled first). You sound like you love and voted for obama, so congrats.
This ad simply shows the negative consequences of choices made. Like, what woman wants to see her baby cut up in pieces in a bloody bucket. Thus, no buckets in anti-abortion ads. I say, pull the ad and let people deal with the consequences.
Homosexuality is a mix of nature and nurture. That means there is a genetical component here and once science identifies the glitch, it’s lights out for homosexuality. And so on to a more perfect society.
Report Post »rbagala
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 2:09pmThat ad is incorrect in depicting homosexuals as the primary cause of HIV. That maybe true to some extent in this nation but world wide it is the heterosexual population that has been devastated by that disease. Africa is a prime example where entire generations have been wiped out leaving orphaned children.
Report Post »Instead of throwing a fit about it, the gay leaders should put up a similar ad pointing to the real statistics that heterosexuals by and large are the primary victims of HIV. Even in this nation the rate of growth of this disease is increasingly seen among drug users who share tainted needles and most of those drug users are not gay.
kryptonite
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 3:51pmCurrent CDC data shows that contagion in the U.S. occurs primarily through young gay males. Also gays were responsible for the transmission of HIV from the host city in Africa to the rest of the world.
The spread of HIV in Africa is a different story. The problem in Africa is that men of all orientations are highly promiscuous and don’t wear condoms, and prostitution is rampant. So HIV spread in Africa is more a matter of social breakup than sexual orientation.
Report Post »mallsniper
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 5:34pmPatient X was a homosexual.
Report Post »HIV was introduced in to humans by a homosexual.
That is a FACT!!!
Proud Navy Dad
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 2:00pmThey all need a little place called home, somewhere in the middle of no where to live there perverted life style. Then maybe when their all infected and die so will the disease.
Report Post »RealityCheck
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 2:10pmYa, like Pompeii. We all know what happened was more than a natural disaster.
Report Post »Tracking
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 2:00pmHIV is the only PREVENTABLE STD. If you don’t want to become infected and suffer the consequences, practice safe sex. Don’t scream discrimination and/or expect others to pay for your chosen lifestyle. When you have unsafe sex, whether you know you are infected or not, you can be charged with attempted murder. The law is on the books and has been used many times. Claiming ignorance is no excuse for breaking the law and endangering public safety. The person who chooses to have unsafe sex with you is also responsible. They made a choice and they will have to live with the consequences. Accept responsibility for what you alone chose to do and stop blaming “gay discrimination” at every turn. We did not make you make an unwise and unsafe decision and place your life in danger along with others. Get tested. Wear a condom and know your partners status. When you choose instant gratification over safety, you will eventually pay the ultimate price and only you are to blame. You had a choice and knowingly made the wrong one. How is that anyone elses fault? The gays I know do not enter into relationships lightly. They each get tested and enter into long term serious relationships in a responsible manner.
Report Post »gramma b
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 1:55pmThe truth is that the life span of homosexuals was shortened by their behavior, even before AIDS. Homosexual behavior causes tears in the fragile lining of the rectum, forcing fecal matter into the bloodstream, causing blood infections which can be lethal. It is sick and wrong, period. It should be stigmatized.
Report Post »13thgenerati0namerican
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 2:06pm100% agree!
Report Post »13thgenerati0namerican
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 1:53pmThe truth hurts, I guess that’s why they are so upset. I’d hate to see that if I knew my actions would someday cause me to have that! It’s like putting photos of lung cancer up for smokers to see. But not in today’s America, no one is responsible for their actions just ask big brother Obama
Report Post »gramma b
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 1:51pmRestigmatizing this behavior would be one of the healthiest things we could do for our country, our children, and our grandchildren.
Report Post »Gunonesis
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 2:01pmCommunist goals (1963) Congressional Record–Appendix, pp. A34-A35 January 10, 1963. #26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.”
Report Post »Gunonesis
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 1:48pmI guess there’s a price to pay for packin fudge.
Report Post »americanfreedompatriot
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 1:52pmlike i just said, straight people get aids, too.
Report Post »biggreenboo
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 2:29pmDude, who you kidding? We know you’re gay. No closet is big enough to hide you.
Just trolling… not really lashing out at ya.
Report Post »BOUGHT YOUR SILO YET?
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 1:45pmSmoking causes cancer. But, oh no, don’t you for one minute say that homosexuality causes AIDS or any other illness- not true. That’s just the Right being homophobic again.
Report Post »americanfreedompatriot
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 1:43pmyou know, straight people can get aids, too.
Report Post »Oil_Robb
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 2:16pmYa….they got it from some ****
Report Post »lketchum
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 2:31pm@JFK4EVA
Just stop it already with the, “straights get AIDS, too…” line.
Yes, we know it is possible, but we also know that AIDS was intentionally spread into the straight community by Gays in the 80s with an axe to grind. We know this, because they said so themselves. We also know that for a time, before there was testing, that AIDS was spread through the blood supply. Infected gays intentionally donated infected blood ahead of testing programs, and we know this, because gay rights activists said they were doing it and they supported it.
We also know that in this country (USA) the vast majority of infected people are gay, or BI males.
White males who do not use illicit IV drugs or run around on their wives have about no chance of contracting AIDS. However, those same men are all but 100% certain to be taxed out the backside (pun intended), to pay for the choice gay/BI men make.
We’re sick of hearing about it. We’re sick of paying for it and we want the LGBT community to shut up and leave us and our wallets alone. What part of, “We don’t care what you do – just do it in private and keep it private” is so hard for the LGBT community to understand.
I promise to never run around in the street in a thong declaring my raging heterosexuality and affection for my wife in exchange for LGBT silence about whatever their choices are.
Report Post »JFK4EVA
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 3:33pmLKETCHUM,
You say you know all these things about homosexuality and HIV/AIDS, but don’t really offer more than “gay activists admitted this” or simply, “we know.” In fact, there doesn’t appear to be one true fact in that vast field of garbage you just spewed. Gay activists intentionally infected the blood supply in the 80s? You have got to be kidding me. That is total slander based on nothing but hatred. There is at least one other semi-reasonable person on this site who has correctly pointed out that the world’s biggest HIV problems are among heterosexual populations. Of course, acknowledging the truth that straight sex spreads the disease just as easily as gay sex would deprive you of the false ammunition with which you persecute those you dislike.
Report Post »lketchum
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 1:43pmThese people are disgusting.
How in the world does someone find love in the hairy backside of a man? Disgusting.
They make the choice to participate in unnatural acts with multiple sexual partners and they don’t want the medical consequences disclosed, because it insensitive and demonizes them to the public?
Meanwhile, we’re to afford them super-rights and spend billions of tax payer dollars on medical research so they can conduct themselves in any way they wish without any consequences.
I reason they are all mentally ill and fractured emotionally. Nature does reward such behaviors – it would select any species participating in its own destruction for extinction. Only if, as is most certainly true, man is God’s creation and endowed with “Free Will” can he choose to participate in such behaviors. LGBT’s cannot have it both ways – either they are making a choice as human beings created by God, or as they assert, there is no God and there is only nature. If that is true, then nature will select them for extinction. This, in my view, utterly destroys the argument that there is a “gay gene.” There isn’t in my view, there are only choices and the choices gay men make result in diseases that the whole of society should be made aware of and gay sex, for all that it is, should be known for the risks it presents – beginning with the risks to the human soul.
LGBT’s, you have a choice. Make the right one and seek help. Turn to God through Jesus Christ and he will heal your heart and then you can begin to heal your mind. If you make the wrong choice, please leave everyone else alone. We don’t want to hear about your “orientation”, ever! We don’t want to be forced to afford you super-rights, just because you find love in the nasty backsides of other men. It’s none of our business, so stop making it our business by forcing us to pay for the choices you have made freely.
Report Post »biggreenboo
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 2:12pmhairy backside of a man!!!!! I couldn’t get any farther… i can’t stop laughing. Thank you… even if it wasn’t ment to be funny.
Report Post »Moment of Clarity
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 4:07pmlketchum – funny thing about God … if you believe that God created man, then God must have created gay’s too.
You resent being taxed for the result of gay lifestyle choices, so I guess that means you resent being taxed for diabetic lifestyle choices, or smoker lifestyle choices, or alcoholic lifestyle choices, or criminal lifestyle choices. What lifestyle choices have YOU made that end up being funded for research or support by MY taxes??? There must be SOME choices you have made that result in a tax. HIV/AIDS is just as deserving of tax dollars as any other human condition.
You correctly said that HIV/AIDS is not just a gay disease. I think that the GLBT issue with the ad is that it implies that it is just a gay disease.
Your ignorant statement that gay’s intentionally spread HIV to the rest of the general population is ridiculous. The spread of HIV/AIDS to the general population means that the general population did not make the right lifestyle choices either, just like gays, doesn’t it?
Report Post »lketchum
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 12:16am@Moment of Clarity
Yes, that is exactly my point – God did create all people and he gave them all Free Will – so gays are exercising their will and making choices – many of them very harmful to themselves and those around them.
God did not make them gay, he made them free and independent and he believed that man would love him. Even when man did not, God didn’t give up on man and the Christ was born so that man could be saved no matter what his sins were.
So yes, god made those that choose to be gay – he also made those that made other bad decisions. Free Will means that man is free to make bad decisions, too.
Report Post »Moment of Clarity
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 4:38amgays don’t choose to be gay – it is hard-wired at birth
Report Post »scott367
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 1:37pmWhy is it OK to use scare tactics for PSA’s about smoking but not about AIDS?
Report Post »Max jones
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 10:40pmJOIN now. National association to abolish political correctness. NAAPC. No dues, No meetings. All you have to do to be a member is call it like you see it…..every time!
Report Post »NoVampires
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 11:29pm@ MaxJones,
Report Post »What a great idea. Where did you get that from: NAAPC. No dues? What a waste. I suggest you get a website. If you charge one cent for membership you’ll be rich.
PITMASTER
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 1:34pmOh, the poor homosexuals. You think you got things bad in this country? Try living your lifestyle in Saudi Arabia, Iran, or maybe try Nazi Germany in the 1930′s. You wouldn’t have to worry about AIDS, HIV or anal cancer; you’d just worry about being caught. But I agree with LIVINGFREE, let them reap what they sow. This PSA probably stemmed from an earmark anyway.
Report Post »livingfree
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 1:29pmI say pull the ads and all research and just let them reap what they sow. The truth will prevail in the end, all be it the wrong end in their case. :)
Report Post »Edwardosan
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 1:25pmGet back in the closet. Simple.
Report Post »afishfarted
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 1:33pmit really shouldn’t be a crowded closet. They are still a minority. Last I checked, less that 20% of the population is ****
Report Post »Psychosis
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 1:43pmactually that number is how many lefties we have. the percentage of gay or lesbian is less than 1%
Report Post »DMcPher316
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 1:18pmYa’know, I don’t care if they want to be gay, that’s their choice. But it ****** me off when you can’t even get them to make a simple life style change like WAREING A RUBBER to help with the problem. The expect us to spend a TON of money on research to help them but won’t help tehmselves. It’s like “Im gay and you have to go out of your way to except that and help me all I wnat you to”. I think more of these kind of ads are needed. Maybe then the will get the idea and help themselves alittle. I think these ads should be MORE graphic, all you old people, remember the drivers ed films from the 70′s? scares hell out of you when you SEE what stupid can cause….just say’n
Report Post »IVillageIdiot
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 1:16pmThey would do well to listen, understand the truth, and stop fighting reality,… rather than worrying about image. That is over half the problem, stop worrying about, or trying to control everyone else’s perceptions and worry about right and wrong.
Report Post »urrybr
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 1:16pmAbstinence would be good.
Report Post »Bad Thunder
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 1:15pmThose damn rump rangers are never happy…….
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 1:23pmlol You and I need sensitivity training! lol
Bad Thunder
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 1:31pmHahahaha I’ve noticed, I’ll bring the beer…
Report Post »Lincoln1
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 1:34pmHell, you might as well add me to the training list also as I was going to call them Butt Buddies
Report Post »libertyordeath87
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 2:34pmSign me up..I call them fudge packers!
Report Post »dkhartman
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 3:13pmYou are just a bunch of intolorant people. Geeeeeeeeezzzz….
Report Post »untameable-kate
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 3:36pmDKHARTMAN is enlightened. I call them poop punchers, I’ll bring the chips!
Report Post »Snapperhead
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 8:10pmI guess the Mountain broke more then their back
Report Post »@leftfighter
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 1:15pmPersonally, I like the idea.
All they‘re doing is showing actual consequences of these peoples’ actions. Heaven forbid that leads to a spate of personal responsibility.
Report Post »Have-Gun-Will-Travel
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 1:14pmI got a great Ideal quit having anal sex, I can go my life without
Report Post »DMcPher316
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 1:14pmYa‘ know I don’t care if they want to be gay, it’s their choice to live with. They have the right to be any way they want. But it ****** me off that they want the rest of us to spend TONS of money for a cure for them and they won’t do anything to help. A simple life style change like WAREING A RUBBER is all that might be needed before a cure it found. But it’s ” I’m gay and you have to support me in that no matter what I do”. Maybe if there were MORE graphic ads like this and maybe MORE graphic, people would get it. It‘s kind of like the old drivers ed films from the 70’s that had all the blood and gore in them. Scared the hell out of people…..just say’n
Report Post »NoRoomForSocialismHere
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 3:46pmTrue, but the Homosexuals do more than the front grille intake and rear bumper bumping. It is so sick you could not think it up in your wildest sadomasochist thoughts.
The perversions would make a Marxist or Muslim say I want to do that to my next victim. Homosexuals when the dark side is revealed are the meanest people on earth. They like spreading Aids to make others suffer for the sexual perversions they seek like a drug addict.
A **** holiday in the islands often includes 100 partners in a few of days.
Report Post »NickDeringer
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 1:13pmStigmatizing? Have you ever seen a “Gay Pride” parade? Are you kidding?
Report Post »butler180
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 1:38pmYou are so right
Report Post »GeauxAlready
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 2:30pmSuffered thru Gay Day at The House of Mouse with the wife and kids,a few years ago. Had to listen to: Papa why is that man kissing that man? Why are they doing that? All damn day. I say kill’em all
Report Post »moreteaplease
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 2:36pmIt‘s laughable isn’t it. They don‘t want the dark side of their lifestyle to be revealed but they’ll sure get out in the street and make damned fools of themselves.
Report Post »Blight14
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 2:49pmSickness taken to an exponential level…………..
Report Post »thewipf
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 3:14pmamen brother!
Report Post »Max jones
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 10:34pmBoycott home depot. The corporation denounces Christianity and supports gay. Holds children’s workshops hosted by gay/lesbian employees.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 1:12pmI bet they had to pay the actors in that thing pretty well. lol
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 1:16pmI guess gays don’t like the downside of their lifestyle to be public knowledge, but the fact remains, it is a valid health concern that people need to be educated about, to prevent needless deaths.
Report Post »cubber
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 1:21pmReality. What a concept. Get a grip. BE PREPARED.
Report Post »FED-UP-AND-READY-TO-TAKE-ACTION
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 1:21pmIt’s the same old lets not “really” talk about what gay sex is really about. They are a very good example of the liberal socialist progressives we discuss every day. They want to do as they please with no regards for what is right. They turn God’s truth into a lie and lies into truth. There is nothing normal about gay sex or any other liberal minded action for that matter. All are perverted and all let to death in the end……………………….VICTORY OR DEATH
thepatriotdave
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 1:28pmTXPilot,
I prefer the painful truth over ignorance any day!
PatriotShops.com
Report Post »afishfarted
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 1:29pmyeah, they don’t want the risks of their choices made public. Same reason the dems don’t want to expose the health risks of illegal aliens. The bring oa lot of unchecked and undiagnosed diseases across the border. But the facts aren’t important in socialist agendas–unless it’s to cleans the country of opposition
Report Post »sWampy
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 1:29pmTo bad we wasted billions looking for a cure for AIDS, allowed billions to be killed by AIDS due to political correctness. When this first came out, and there were just a few thousand with it, we could have quarantined them, given them a million a piece, treated them like kings for the rest of their lives and been done with it once and for all. Instead we did everything we could to extend their lives to the point now, they can spread the disease for 30 years or more, causing countless people to suffer needlessly.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 1:32pm@Txpiolet
Agree with you, if these PSA’s are based on facts, documented and confirmed medically, then let the matter come to a rest. This era of PC garbage needs to come to an ending and let common sense come back to the forefront.
http://www.artinphoenix.com/gallery/grimm
Report Post »@leftfighter
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 1:34pmBREAKING:
81 Senators (meaning many Republicans along with Democrats) just violated their oath to the Constitution by passing a tax bil before the House even sent it to them.
Article 1, Section 7, Clause 1: All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills.
http://www.house.gov/house/Constitution/Constitution.html
http://www.usconstitution.net/xconst_A1Sec7.html
Somebody please take note of the GOP names, so we can remember who violated their oath and make sure to get them out next chance we get.
Report Post »dkhartman
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 3:10pmHaha yeah Gonzo. My favorite is that herpes commercial with the laughing smiling couple talking about how great it is to have a herpes medication so that they can ‘safely’ have sex with because of less outbreaks.. Ahh they make herpes look so fun..
Anyways, Seriously… This is not news.
Report Post »Hobo Boondocks
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 3:34pmHaven’t we been told by homosexuals and the entertainment media it’s just a normal, alternative lifestyle? What’s the need for all these PSA warnings? Clearly, this is a dastardly smear campaign to paint these regular fellas, who donate blood, often next-door neighbors of us all- as potential disease carrying pariahs!…. Wait a minute…on second thought run that PSA night and day around the clock!
Report Post »JESUS-IS-LORD
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 4:40pmhttp://www.fordham.edu/halsall/pwh/swift1.html
read and learn the truth america. do not give then “rights”.
Report Post »They deserve none. Amen.
Snapperhead
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 8:09pmAnd man shall not lay down with another man…..
Report Post »*************************
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 6:16am“Gay Activists Upset Over Graphic HIV PSA … activists think the ad is stigmatizing”
LOL! Ya think?
town drunk JIM: “Another twenty-five years and you’ll be able to shake their hands in broad daylight.”
Report Post »-Blazing Saddles
(P.S. – don’t shake their hands even in another 25 years! LOL)
YOOPER69
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 10:02amwhat ever it take to rid the world of this perversion
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