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>I am making no moral judgement here

You talk with seeming disgust about sex, I think you are.

>And allowing stigma to influence public policy decisions is harmful to the far greater majority

Yes, because if there is one thing straight people are compared to gay men it's stigmatised.

>Hiding details about outbreaks to avoid offending protected classes

The information isn't hidden - it's on the front page of BBC News in the UK where the disproportionately higher cases for gay men is. It's just unlike you they're aware that it's not a gay plague