| | In 1995, without giving specific age ranges of homosexual adolescents' sexual partners, medical researchers stated the following regarding youths seeking help at the only [[Homosexuality|homosexual]] identified agency New York City: "...many homosexual male adolescents have sexual relationships with homosexual men, the group with the highest prevalence for AIDS."<ref>[http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/abstract/152/4/588 ''Predicting patterns of sexual acts among homosexual and bisexual youths'', MJ Rotheram-Borus, M Rosario, H Reid and C Koopman, American Journal of Psychiatry, volume 152 , 1995, page 589]</ref> | | In 1995, without giving specific age ranges of homosexual adolescents' sexual partners, medical researchers stated the following regarding youths seeking help at the only [[Homosexuality|homosexual]] identified agency New York City: "...many homosexual male adolescents have sexual relationships with homosexual men, the group with the highest prevalence for AIDS."<ref>[http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/abstract/152/4/588 ''Predicting patterns of sexual acts among homosexual and bisexual youths'', MJ Rotheram-Borus, M Rosario, H Reid and C Koopman, American Journal of Psychiatry, volume 152 , 1995, page 589]</ref> |
| − | Given that the adolescent HIV infection was seen as a problem in the late 1980's, the failure of medical researchers to publish material in the past regarding the age ranges of the individuals infecting adolescents is inexcusable. The pro-homosexaulity publication ''The Advocate'' stated the following regarding adolescent HIV infection on March 24, 1992 in a article entitled ''America's Worst Kept Secret - AIDS is devastating the Nation's Teenager and Gay Kids are Dying by the Thousands'': | + | Given that the adolescent HIV infection was seen as a problem in the late 1980s, the failure of medical researchers to publish material in the past regarding the age ranges of the individuals infecting adolescents is inexcusable. The pro-homosexaulity publication ''The Advocate'' stated the following regarding adolescent HIV infection on March 24, 1992 in an article entitled ''America's Worst Kept Secret - AIDS is devastating the Nation's Teenager and Gay Kids are Dying by the Thousands'': |
| | {{cquote|And while adolescents currently represent only 2% of the AIDS cases reported by the CDC, for the past six years the number of adolescent case of AIDS has doubled every 14 months, which is, according to [[epidemiology|epidemiologists]], the same rate of expansion seen in the gay male population in the first few years of the epidemic. | | {{cquote|And while adolescents currently represent only 2% of the AIDS cases reported by the CDC, for the past six years the number of adolescent case of AIDS has doubled every 14 months, which is, according to [[epidemiology|epidemiologists]], the same rate of expansion seen in the gay male population in the first few years of the epidemic. |