New Wave Aids - USA

Oct 1995
Welcome to Castro, San Francisco, USA, centre of the gay universe.

It offers sexual liberation to all gay men and women. It also provides the ideal conditions for a fatal virus which turned into an epidemic in 1981. According to Dr Andrew Moss, AIDS' present infection rates are once again reaching epidemic proportions. A second generation of men who have grown up with AIDS are recklessly indulging in the dangers of unsafe sex. Moss predicts a "new wave of death". Sex clubs, which were closed down during the 80s as a danger to public health, are re-opening. Surveys reveal that many gay men still do not practise safe sex. One admits that while, "trying to get the full experience, I forgot a lot about safety." He is now in a wheel chair, suffering from Kaposi's Sarcoma, a rare cancer which indicates the onset of AIDS. Today, gay men cannot claim ignorance as they did in the 80s but it seems many are still determined not to face facts.

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[sukayle]

You can talk about gay rights until you're blue in the face. But, if you have no self-respect...and if you don't think enough of your own kind not to destroy yourselves and each other...then how do expect to change the way the rest of society treats you?

[uzoma0024]

why are people stupid/ For your own sake people, protect yourself . Do not be selfish.

[DunklenHerzen]

Bunch of ignorant idiots commenting here. Don't spread the hate, just watch the fucking video. 

[drumheadcircle]

Warning, what they won't tell you in the news: Ecstasy makes you act gay. It really does- ask anyone. I lived there at the time of this video and was the best dancer in all of San Fran. Warn your kids. It was designed by the military for non-lethal disarmament.; made the soldiers have sex w/ each other like monkeys. They are gay out there from all the nuclear testing in the Western Desert- messed up their DNA- my family included.(tumors and cancer too).

[hitcan79]

@MrYozhik2010 what cures stupidity cause you could use a big ass dose of that.

[hitcan79]

@avlonjoyous you are an idiot man, why don't you take all your fucking statistics and personal horse shit somewhere else, If anyone is truly to blame for the first deadly wave of AIDS it's not homosexuals, it's the very health system that you are crying about in your stupid comments, they knew for 2 or 3 years how this was being spread from person to person through sex and factor VIII, yet they did NOTHING to warn anyone, and I have news for you, pedophiles molest boys, not homosexuals, ASSHOLE.

[sprintbass]

@Muhlineks that may be true.. but you have people like magic johnson who came out with his positive in 1991..ive often thought that is one can afford care then and now thier lives are (easier)

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[Muhlineks]

This was one year before the HAART Therapy was introduced. At this moment hiv became manageable. but when this documentary was made, it was still a death sentance to be tested positive.

[mdc1084159]

You have to remember this is 1995 geesh you all are some ignorant ppl for blaming homosexuals for HIV....HIV does not discriminate against age, sex, race, or sexual orientation the fact that you blame homosexuals is due to all your ignorances of the virus....AIDS kill everyone not just homosexuals it can effect your friends, your family, and even yourself if your not safe sexually

[MrYozhik2010]

AIDS cures sodomites