Sunday, October 30, 2005

Being gay is more important to the AIDS Foundation than HIV status


Its a fact. If you are HIV positive and heterosexual theres no way that you will ever be on the board of the AIDS Foundation, even if you are a Maori. According to AIDS Foundation founder Bill Logan, the foundation needs to be gay-centred. This is political correctness and discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. The AIDS Foundation has been accused of discrimination before, when it tried to impose a 50% Maori quota on the board. Logan said that the organisation was to retain “the authority to lead and consolidate changes in the sexual culture of men who have sex with men. There are strong indications that the current Board is strategically disoriented... it has put the gay-centred character of the AIDS Foundation up for reconsideration".

The problems within the AIDS Foundation have been highlighted by primarily gay activists who are not HIV positive. What about the 11 percent of infections to people who are not gay men? Don`t they have a voice?

This organisation should be renamed the GAYDS Foundation.

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