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==Sexual politics==
 
==Sexual politics==
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The term "gay disease" was applied without prejudice<ref>When the AIDS epidemic began officially in June 1981, it was widely considered exclusively a "gay disease." [http://www.rense.com/general73/homphn.htm] </ref> The term was in fact coined by a physician who was himself homosexual.{{fact}}
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The term "gay disease" was applied without prejudice.<ref>When the AIDS epidemic began officially in June 1981, it was widely considered exclusively a "gay disease." [http://www.rense.com/general73/homphn.htm] </ref> The term was in fact coined by a physician who was himself homosexual.{{fact}}
 
It was only later that the term fell into disfavor.{{fact}} Organizations promoting homosexuality wanted to get the public to believe that AIDS was not just a threat to promiscuous homosexual men. [http://www.thebody.com/content/art32330.html]
 
It was only later that the term fell into disfavor.{{fact}} Organizations promoting homosexuality wanted to get the public to believe that AIDS was not just a threat to promiscuous homosexual men. [http://www.thebody.com/content/art32330.html]
 
They used slogans such as "not a gay disease" to spread this idea.  
 
They used slogans such as "not a gay disease" to spread this idea.  
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