A growing underground in the gay community actively seeks HIV infection

By: David Mullenax

Relatively few things shock me. It’s not that I’ve seen everything, of course, far from it. But media-hyped and sensational stories tend to ring hollow –the extreme lost in a whirlwind of fantastical news articles where the outrageous becomes mundane, and the traditional insane. The Bug Chasers expose, however, was an entirely different matter.

Rolling Stone magazine, well-known for its perverse and raucous journalism, published a chilling story about a growing subculture in the gay community where HIV-negative men deliberately seek infection from HIV-positive men. Their personal ads run across Internet newsgroups and websites tailored for the, uh, shall we say, more adventurous of the sexual miscreants.

As with many subcultures, they have developed their own jargon and terminology, which gives their behavior a sense of uniqueness. Being gay, I suppose, is simply not unique anymore. Negative men call themselves “bug chasers,” and positive men are known as “gift-givers”. The act of receiving the virus is referred to as “breeding,” or “seeding”. In the gay world, death is life. It all sounds like a morbid science-fiction movie to me, and I’m still waiting for aliens, pods, and incubators to play a role, but this isn’t fantasy. It’s very real, indeed.

Carlos, the central figure in Rolling Stone’s startling article, explained to the investigative journalist that the moment of infection would be “the most erotic thing I can imagine.” To him, being HIV-positive is to abandon the restraints and limits of society that causes depression and pain, after all he says, “nothing worse can happen to you. Nothing bad can happen after you get HIV.” The finality of death escapes him.

My wife and I discussed the issue of “bug chasing” at length over freshly brewed coffee and Italian biscotti. Each of us had difficulty in describing exactly how we felt about such insanity and madness. Yet, we both expressed a sense of tragedy, rather than anger at such destructive behavior.

You see, bug chasing is simply the end of a journey, the final step in a lifestyle that destroys –never creating anything beautiful and healthy. It’s a prescription for death, and this applies to proponents of the genetic or environment-based origins of homosexuality. This is why, to echo the words of my friend and mentor Kevin Strom, that gays should be pitied. Anger is reserved for someone else –for those that are responsible.

Homosexuality would not be a trendy alternative if it weren’t for a Jewish-controlled media that glamorizes and insists that gays are the same as everyone else. To be gay is to be exotic, and thus revered. The many stories of death, some by infection and others by suicide, are never told on MTV.

Since the media consistently promotes homosexuality as a hip and fashionable lifestyle, the anger is reserved for them. Imagine how many lives are lost through the lies pedaled across their airwaves that are beamed into homes everyday. Imagine how many children wouldn’t adopt this ruinous lifestyle, if they weren’t told that it was cool and sexy. This is why gays should be pitied, and the anger reserved for the alien minority who run the majority of our news and entertainment outlets. Gays are simply the product of this media manipulation – innocent men and women lead on a leash to their deaths.

Recruitment and outreach programs prey on the weaknesses of many of our young ones. Understanding that many high-school and college students suffer from isolation, depression, and a loss of identity, they fill the vacuum. But, the real poison “seed” was planted long ago in the minds of our children –softened and weakened by an entertainment media that leaves them susceptible and vulnerable to the well coordinated efforts of homosexual organizations.

Without that mental preparation, the gay lifestyle would be rejected by many vibrant and innocent White children who have become victims to this scheming. The best of our young ones would go on to raise healthy families and live productive lives. Instead, they have accepted an invitation, an invitation to death.

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