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I do not intend to dismiss or belittle the suffering of people who have had a beloved one succumb to cancer, or the people who are currently suffering from cancer or any other disease. I hear people say that AIDS is not important, but the point should be made that, unlike certain types of cancer, the afflicted part of the body cannot be removed. AIDS is your entire body. Overall, the survival rate of cancer is much higher than AIDS because people have lived to talk about it. There are no survivors of AIDS.
As a heterosexual, I know what it is like to be a minority among my homosexual friends. Rarely does it seem a heterosexual will stand up and support a homosexual. I consider the threat of AIDS to affect me as equally as it does them. I witness and feel the hatred towards them and it is directed towards me, also. Hatred clouds solutions and just finds excuses.
