Monkeypox Campaign Becomes Mired In Anti-LGBTQ Rhetoric

[Webster]

(The Guardian) Monkeypox cases are increasing across the United States, and as Wilfred Chan reports, the campaign against the disease is caught up in rightwing campaigns against LGBTQ+ rights: The conservative campaign against LGBTQ+ rights has found a new fixation for its hatred: monkeypox. On TV, rightwing commentators openly mock monkeypox victims – the vast majority of whom are men who have sex with men – and blame them for getting the disease. On social media, rightwing users trade memes about how the “cure” to monkeypox is straight marriage while casting doubt on monkeypox vaccines’ efficacy.

This aggressive stigmatization of monkeypox – reminiscent of the homophobic response to HIV/Aids in the 1980s – poses a serious challenge to public health advocates and community leaders trying to have honest conversations about the disease with the gay and bisexual men who are most at risk during the current outbreak. Should public messaging highlight the fact that monkeypox is primarily affecting men who have sex with men? And should public health bodies urge gay men to change their sexual practices?

The simultaneous threats of homophobia and monkeypox require making a difficult choice about which to tackle first, says the writer and veteran Aids activist Mark S King, a 61-year-old gay man.

Rightwing media embraces Aids-era homophobia in monkeypox coverage

Public health experts want to talk to men who have sex with men about monkeypox. Stigmatization of gay sex makes that harder

www.theguardian.com

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

gay and bisexual men who are most at risk during the current outbreak.

I have nothing to to worry about. Me and my BF are good boys and don't screw around with other people, only each other.

 

[Ghost Rider]

I have nothing to to worry about. Me and my BF are good boys and don't screw around with other people, only each other.

Are you sure?...lmao

 

[Smiley]

It's a hoax, an attempt to straighten up the bi and gay men.

 

[Webster]

It's a hoax, an attempt to straighten up the bi and gay men.

The Right's own rhetoric reminds me of the shit gay men got thrown at them - verbally & rhetorically speaking, that is - during the early years of the AIDS epidemic.

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

Are you sure?...lmao

I trust him, so yeah.

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

(The Guardian) Monkeypox cases are increasing across the United States, and as Wilfred Chan reports, the campaign against the disease is caught up in rightwing campaigns against LGBTQ+ rights:

Saying don’t sleep around and stick with one partner is not right wing anything.

The conservative campaign against LGBTQ+ rights has found a new fixation for its hatred:

There is no campaign against there rights just no special rights above others.

monkeypox. On TV, rightwing commentators openly mock monkeypox victims –

Please show me a mainstay news outlet openly mocking people with this virus and not getting kickback from the host?

the vast majority of whom are men who have sex with men – and blame them for getting the disease.

Vast majority who have sex with multiple men which is the issue.

On social media, rightwing users trade memes about how the “cure” to monkeypox is straight marriage while casting doubt on monkeypox vaccines’ efficacy.

I follow quite a bit of conservative news outlets, conservative and libertarian individuals with notoriety and I don’t see any of that. Sorry some shit stain individual doesn’t count.

This aggressive stigmatization of monkeypox – reminiscent of the homophobic response to HIV/Aids in the 1980s – poses a serious challenge to public health advocates and community leaders trying to have honest conversations about the disease with the gay and bisexual men who are most at risk during the current outbreak.

There is no stigmatization as of right now it’s a gay issue and that’s just a fact. Will it stay that way, probably not but people need to be honest and upfront on how it’s spreading at this moment.

Should public messaging highlight the fact that monkeypox is primarily affecting men who have sex with men?

YES! It’s the truth!

And should public health bodies urge gay men to change their sexual practices?

Yes! That stops it! Why is this even a discussion???

The simultaneous threats of homophobia and monkeypox require making a difficult choice about which to tackle first, says the writer and veteran Aids activist Mark S King, a 61-year-old gay man.

I’ll tell you what is dangerous, making everything about race and implementing that in health care!!!!!

Rightwing media embraces Aids-era homophobia in monkeypox coverage

Public health experts want to talk to men who have sex with men about monkeypox. Stigmatization of gay sex makes that harder

www.theguardian.com

 

[Webster]

Did you have a point above, Serafin?