""why is there such a huge difference in infection rates?""

Go on then. You tell me why there is a huge difference in all the other STDs.

You take a group which is a small minority, quite separate from the mainstream distributors of Gonorrhea, Chlamidia et al, and a specific infection gets into that group, quite by chance, and is spread through the group because it is small and isolated.

In Africa the reverse is true. AIDS got into the hetero population first and in some places 40% of the hetero population is infected.

If 40% of gays were infected and 40% of straights, the actual number of infected gays would still be a tiny proportion of the whole.

That still doesn't explain why you would deny them the safety of monogamous marriage.

None of your comments ever tackle that one, so we draw the obvious conclusion.

Don T.