As Democrats dither, monkeypox finds its way through the Gay community.
Neoliberal Gays too embarrassed to cry out for help.
Monkey pox is spreading through the Gay community and will soon be everywhere around the world.
A smallpox vaccine is effective in preventing monkey pox, but the supplies are limited. In the United States you can’t go out and get vaccinated for smallpox because only the CDC has supplies of the vaccine.
You would think that groups that purport to support the Gay community would be shouting that the government needs to do something. However, I am not hearing the Stonewall Democrats, the various LGBTQXYZ media demanding it. Maybe they will in a week or so, but it seems they aren’t moving yet.
I did a search trying to find something about it and came across this good article. “Is the LGBT Community Doing Enough to Fight Monkeypox?”
https://www.poz.com/article/lgbt-community-enough-fight-monkeypox
This is the subtitle:
“Efforts to avoid stigma and homophobia could be keeping us silent when we need to be speaking out.”
This is what I have suspected to be the problem. This is the opening paragraph to the article.
Monkeypox is not a gay disease.” “Anyone can get monkeypox.” We’ve heard this ad infinitum—and it’s accurate—but as we attempt to avoid stoking stigma and homophobia, I fear the LGBT community and the government aren’t doing enough to raise awareness and curb transmission.
And the article quotes a Dr. Jim Downs:
But others are pushing back. “For fear of stirring up animus against gay men, officials today may be underplaying the role of sexual transmission in recent monkeypox cases,” medical historian Jim Downs, PhD, wrote in the Atlantic. Health officials and news outlets “are putting gay men at risk unless they prioritize them for interventions such as public-awareness campaigns, vaccines and tests.”
This is Dr. Jim Downs article about avoiding the issue of sex in regards to Monkeypox.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/05/monkeypox-outbreak-spread-gay-bisexual-men/643122/
I think the issue is that the LGBTQXYZ Inc. is squeamish about sex and Gay men having lots of it.
One thing we need to realize is that when a person has monkeypox he will be outed. You can’t tell if a person has HIV, but you very easily will be able to see if someone has monkeypox. While health officials dither, we will likely here reports in some places in the world where a Gay person is attacked because monkeypox has outed him.
I am browsing through www.advocate.com, www.out.com and others and Monkeypox is perhaps buried somewhere and I might find it if I used a search engine, but it isn’t a lead item.
One of the issues of Gays being slopped in with LGBTQXYZ is that Gay issues get lost in the shuffle and get shuffled when the Alphabet Soup gets embarrassed by Gay sexuality.
The LGBTQXYZ will not be good to protect Gay health.
What can we do. Start screaming on social media and elsewhere demanding that the Biden Administration and the CDC roll out a vaccination campaign.
The fact that we have to start screaming should get Gays start thinking that they need to be organized along Gay centric lines and not thrown into the Alphabet Soup.