Name: Fear of AIDS | Luis J Gomez on The Adam Friedland Show
Uploaded: 2024-06-10T14:30:12.000Z
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Fear of AIDS | Luis J Gomez on The Adam Friedland Show' from TAFS Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-06-10. Transcript available.

um when did you stop being afraid of aids i don't think i was ever afraid of
aids really
yeah that's crazy why the first time i got an aids test i hyperventilated and
cried
no because i was i was fucking a guy with aids i i was like i mean i was on the
internet as a
teenager so like in the internet back then was all like very very much right
wing so like you
know you'd learn like they also couple drug education with sex education you
have a health
class and health class you're right and what do they tell you in health class
they tell you that
drugs are bad that if you smoke weed you're going to end up a crack addict you
know like the drugs do
they give you brain damage you know weed will give you brain damage all this
stuff and then they also
tell you that you can get aids if you have sex and all this stuff and that
straight people can get aids
they tell you all this stuff and then you leave the health class and then you
find out
drugs are fine even the guy who taught the health class probably was high as
fuck he probably smokes
weed that's all a lie probably had it was all created by a racist government to
come up with
these lies to tell you about drugs and it's like but oh but the other part of
the class that's true
and it's like well no none of this is i just i'll throw it all out i don't
believe in any of this i
stopped being afraid of aids when pen and teller did a bullshit episode on it
oh really pen and teller
did bullshit on aids and they called bullshit on aids i was like what yeah yeah
and then they were like
they went over like the percentage the chance even if you had sex with a woman
who had aids like
straight sex yeah yeah and it was such a small chance to be able to catch it i
was like oh that's it
no there was like a concerted effort to like that's that might be why like it's
very easy to just blame
the uh like public health authorities for all of this but like so aids was
first recognized in in gay
communities and because it was a gay the marginalized community the government
didn't give a fuck about
doing anything about it like reagan famously kind of laughed after a phone call
from like uh i think
it was like rock hudson was like hey listen buddy i'm we're all dying over here
you're all your old
hollywood pals are dying reagan was like tough tough tough shit homo my wife
blew everybody
that's my aids that's my wife sucked everyone's cock it's god's answer to what
you're doing yeah
so good luck with your good luck with your butt monkey virus
the white house won't be helping with anything and you know and then yeah and
then um and then it was
branded as like initially they called it grids it was gay related immunodeficiency
syndrome
and because it was a gay thing there was no like public funding for it or
research and then
larry kramer wrote all those plays and that actually probably benefited him
more than anything
you know because now he's now he's mr aids um but uh uh yeah it was like that
that was the problem
is it was branded as such and so at the time i feel like in the late 80s early
90s the correction
wasn't to say oh homophobia is wrong we should stop being mean to gay people it's
like no we should
get people to care about aids by branding it as a disease for everybody yeah
and so then there was
that little boy there was like a little white boy that got aids probably from
the church i don't know
like probably he probably was like oh it was a blood transfusion i'm like yeah
he should they transfused
his blood all over some guy's cock at church that's probably a little gay slut
he was like in gay
nightclubs yeah yeah no it was like ryan uh white or whatever and then it was
like oh everyone can get
aids and then they branded it as like an every i remember that i remember that
so clearly you're a little
younger than me i remember watching it at the time it was a part of like our
culture but then that had the
reverse effect where it was like okay well now there's insufficient education
going towards like
younger gay people to tell them like no this is very something like very much
something to be concerned
with and like you know you like you in particular need to use like protection
or you know like you should
be concerned about aids because then it became like an everybody thing when it
is something that affects this
like one community you know what i mean it would be like if and i'm hard i've
gotten so much worse at
analogies in my life but it'd be like if uh like let's say the world didn't
care about handicap people
and they don't and then suddenly like we didn't have stairs until the 1980s and
they invented stairs and
then fucking you know like like christopher reeves is like calling his friend ronald
reagan and being
like can you please help me i can't get into my apartment and he's like tough
shit
that's god's answer to horseback riding that's what you get for riding a horse
like a fairy
like fancy prince on your horse
reagan reagan did not like his highfalutin horse riding yeah yeah yeah
dude reagan's the best president ever yeah yeah ride a horse well you deserve
it
and then they were like well what if we convince people that stairs are a
problem for everybody
right and then we're like oh okay we should all
fucking be careful about i don't know i'm giving up on this analogy
i don't know but there was like 20 years of them like saying it the wrong way
and then it took it
took until only like it only i feel like in the last 15 years they figured out
like oh there's a way
to say hey aids mostly affects like
gay men you know so like you guys should use still do in like the commercials
like they do
they throw a fucking chinese girl in there for some reason they'll have like a
love a straight couple
being like we're using prep yeah they find the right way the right balance but
it's like not
it was nine or ten gay dudes like really and as soon as as soon as they did
that it was cured
like literally as soon as they figured out the right way to like brand it then
it was like oh a pill that
you take and then you don't have aids i feel like also the branding for prep
should be a little darker
than it is did you they brand it like it's a skittles commercial