Let’s look at the sentence more closely though.ġ. How many HIV-positive people have been able to pinpoint exactly where and when they were infected? How many people who say they know exactly where and when they were infected are telling the truth? Why should we believe them? Because what they’re telling us helps frame the seemingly innocuous narrative that “safe sex is good”? If someone like Derrick Burts says so… That Burts, who was not just a gay porn actor but also a gay escort, can simply say where he thinks he was infected with HIV and have that be accepted as truth is remarkable. Times has also been a mouthpiece for Burts and his puppetmasters at AIDS Healthcare Foundation (which was the driving force behind the mandatory condom law). And The Independent isn’t the first paper to regurgitate Burts’ talking points and present them as facts the L.A.
