As I have explained here <a href="http://jewishphilosopher.blogspot.com/2006/11/anti-gay-pride.htmlthe">http://jewishphilosopher.blogspot.com/2006/11/anti-gay-pride.htmlthe</a> AIDS epidemic would never have begun if not for gay liberation.Until about 1800 sodomy was punishable by death in all Christian and Islamic countries, including the United States, and it still is in a few Islamic countries.