Written By: Sayen Crowolf
Remember when the AIDS Health Foundation actually gave a crap about HIV/AIDS? Yeah, it’s tough for me to remember those days too.
AIDS Healthcare Foundation is a HIV/AIDS service provider who sits on a $141 million dollar warchest, (up from $97 million last year) uses over a third of that total for their salaries, and spends countless other dollars on things that have nothing to do with providing service to those that need it.
These days Michael Weinstein, the man in charge of what he bills as the largest HIV/AIDS service provider in the US is all about trying to make a name for his crusades, most of which have failed miserably. Here’s just a sampling of his greatest hits:
- Remember the fun we all had when he went after Pfizer’s advertisements that had that snazzy “Viva Viagra” catch tune? Weinstein had a conniption because, to him, the pharmaceutical company was billing Viagra as a party drug.
- Science breaks a barrier and starts to move quickly forward on using Truvada as a preventative measure against further HIV infections. The science looks good, trials don’t look bad and it’s one of the first BIG things that looks good in the war on HIV in a very long time. His response? It’s another party drug that’s only going to encourage people to abandon their condoms (that they’re not wearing anyway) and get their groove on. The FDA’s response to Weinstein? “We’re sorry, who are you again?” I’ll save you all the details of my rant on that piece and just retreat them here. It’s also worth noting that AHF spent over two million dollars on this initiative, one that exactly nine people tweeted about, one person tapped it for Google Plus and a little over 200 liked it on Facebook (check their link above)
Weinstein’s gone after the porn industry more than once. In fact, it’s an big obsession with him. In no particular order:
- Because of patient information leaks at Adult Industry Medical, Weinstein saddled up against a facility who’s sole purpose was to ensure the health of adult entertainment performers. Hot on the heels of this, a big ol’ liar named Derrick Burts claimed he contracted HIV on the set of one of his gay-for-pay movies. Here’s the rub on his saga: he’s gay for pay, only had sex off the set with his girlfriend (also an adult performer), and while they did use condoms on the set for sex (of which he’s a very proud bottom) they didn’t use them for oral sex. Eureka! That MUST be where he got it from. Now, Weinstein has his poster boy for everything wrong with the adult movie industry. Weinstein’s tactics got AIM closed, and as a result, performers now have to drive way the hell out of the way to another provider for their monthly testing assurances. In talking to a performer I’m told that the drive is 2 hours in each direction. Once a month. It’s pretty much a requirement too for any mainstream working performer. No up-to-date card, you’re not working.
- Burts also became the face behind Weinstein’s initiative that passed in California requiring condoms in porn. All porn. Wanna make a dirty movie and sell it in California? Wrap it up boys, and if you shoot scenes without condoms you’re gonna get in big trouble. Nobody is really sure who’s going to inspect the movies, the on set action, or enforce the infractions, but you’re just gonna get in trouble.
Oh yeah, did I mention that AHF makes a profit in selling porn?
Hmmm, how ’bout that? Porn is bad for you. Bareback porn is really bad for you, but it’s not bad for anyone when Weinstein wants to turn a buck selling it. Now it seems that Weinstein is going after the bareback porn industry and he’s painted a particular bullseye on Treasure Island Media, a porn production company that specializes in bareback porn. And not just scenes that feature two musclebound studs who leave the condoms in the locker while they do the deed in the gym shower. I’m talking full out fluid swapping, no-holds-barred sex. You won’t find anyone describing a single title at Treasure Island Media as “vanilla”. If anything, TIM movies are the anti-vanilla of all gay porn out there.
AHF is going to town filing a Cal/OSHA complaint against the company after having inspected 11 of their titles and come to the determination that the performers have been put in a grave health risk:
Michael Weinstein is a nazi (kind of ironic to call him that with that last name.) I wish someone could stop him in court. The whole AIDS industry is resourcing to this kind of sad resources because it is clear that “HIV prevention” as stated by the CDC has failed miserably and they don’t want to answer for the millions of dollars wasted on “behavioral interventions” and other non-sense. AIDS Healthcare Foundation is destined to disappear and that is why he is acting like this. He benefits from AIDS.
Hey TIM, offer Michael Weinstein a role in one of your up and cumming TIM fuck films, and let Brad McGuire and Paul Stag have a go at him. I think he needs a bareback session.
He does not deserve anyone’s energy going in his direction. He is what he is.
Michael Weinstein is a pathetic terrorist who rivals the Phelps family when it comes to hateing gays who bareback.