an-gremlin:

erykahisnotalright:

amputate:

#NoOnProp60 #noprop60

By the way, that man is Michael Weinstein, president of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation. 

You would think the president of a foundation supporting some form of sexual health would be a good person, but Michael Weinstein is notoriously shit. He uses the non-profits funds for personal agendas all the time. 

Weinstein actively argues against the use of PrEP, pre-exposure prophylaxis, because he considers it a “party drug” which encourages men who have sex with men to engage in “casual, anonymous sex” which will lead to a public health disaster (whatever the hell that means). PrEP, in case you aren’t aware, is a medical regimen which can reduce the risk of transmission of HIV by 99 percent, and in some cases, a solid 100%. 

Other HIV activists have come forward with stories about Weinstein and his organization such as: 

1. denying their clinic doctors the right the unionize under the National Union of Healthcare Workers, 
2. paying to distribute his editorials which contain unsubstantiated personal claims that are presented as fact, 
3. regularly denying scientific evidence regarding HIV-relevant issues and treatments (including PrEP), 
4. intentionally overbilling LA County by $5.2 million for patient treatment which is you know defrauding the fucking government,
5. issuing an internal email stating that the AHF foundation needed to go after Zev Yaroslavsky “directly and hard” because he was “the real power behind [their] problems with the county on porn, the audit, and fee-for-service… he is a lame duck and an arrogant jerk… his power base is dead and he and others need to be taught a lesson”; this came after Yaroslavsky criticized Weinstein for using his organization in a “crass and bullying political manner” to get his way and avoid personal accountability,
6. directly promoting HIV stigma and fearmongering by creating and disseminating advertisements which prey on the lack of trust and sex-negative views in reagrds to the contraction and transmission of HIV,
7. using their funding and political power to bully and intimidate smaller, more community-oriented HIV and AIDS organizations, the most egregious case of which being when they pulled funding from an advocacy event in Louisiana because a whisteblower who was suing them (AHF) was going to be planning it, they then reinstated the funding (without apologizing), and countersued the whistleblower,
8. hiding a financial scandal which has been brought to light by former AHF managers who allege that AHF has defrauded over $100 million from the federal government by giving employees illegal kickbacks for creating false HIV/AIDS referrals and paying patients to come to its clinics and pharmacies,

And, finally, this bullshit proposition which is being headed under the guise of HIV prevention. Other HIV activists not affiliated with the cesspool that is AHF have argued that this proposition will not actually do anything but create limitations on the access to other preventative options which may be more effective (like fucking PrEP), and threatens performers with serious infringements on their medical and personal privacy (considering the passing of this proposition would essentially deputize Californians as Condom Cops™ as its been phrased).

Public health officials have warned over and over that this proposition is a complete and total waste of money, especially given the fact that the adult film industry has had zero on-set contractions/transmissions of HIV in the last ten years.

Yes, you read that right.

Zero on-set contractions/transmissions of HIV.

Michael Weinstein is completely and totally uncaring to the safety and well-being of LGBTQ+ folks who are at risk of HIV/AIDS. He absolutely does not give a shit about the well-being or livelihood of people who are living with HIV/AIDS. 

The only thing this disgusting asshole cares about is money, and he makes that money off of the fear and illness of the millions of Americans who are concerned with, at risk for, or living with HIV/AIDS.

Supporting this Prop is not supporting people with HIV, it is not supporting HIV prevention, it is only putting more people at risk for a more restrictive HIV healthcare monopoly lead by this shitbag.

Vote no on prop 60.

From the people who brought you “we need to pass laws that will stop countless black and/or poor americans from voting because four people committed voter fraud last election” comes “You need to pay me for the rest of my life to put more restrictions on people I don’t like to protect them from a threat that hasn’t existed in over a decade”