‘Homophobic’: UN attacks journalists reporting on LGBT ‘sex party’ where monkeypox spread
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The United Nations AIDS agency called reporting on the origins of the monkeypox outbreak ‘homophobic’ even though a party in a gay bathhouse caused the outbreak.
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GENEVA, Switzerland (LifeSiteNews) – The United Nations AIDS agency (UNAIDS) has hit out at journalists reporting on the recent outbreak of the monkeypox virus, vilifying them as “homophobic” after justifiably drawing attention to the homosexual orgies where the outbreaks began.
In a May 22 press statement, UNAIDS “expressed concern” over news stories which accurately reported that the spread of the virus had been traced back to an international LGBT sex “party” in a bathhouse in the Spanish capital of Madrid. The agency claimed that the reports had used “language and imagery, particularly portrayals of LGBTI and African people, that reinforce homophobic and racist stereotypes and exacerbate stigma.”
The Telegraph reported that in both Belgium and the U.K. the virus had first been found among homosexual men, prompting the U.K. Health Security Agency (UKHSA) to release a statement urging gay men to be especially alert to symptoms of the virus, including rashes on their genitalia.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), monkeypox transmits through “prolonged close contact … mainly, but not exclusively” among “men who have ‘sex’ with men.”