I totally agree with this.

Mike Huckabee is a crazy fuck. Marriage is “one man and one woman, for life?” WTF?

I’m currently listening to a crazy fucked up podiobook set in 2020 where all the gay people and IV drug users and anyone else who happened to contract HIV are isolated in a concentration camp awaiting their deaths. This ties in nicely with the Huckabee thing, and I’ve been thinking about both things together all day, mostly because the author insists that his alternate future story is a possibility. It’s very lyrically written, and you can tell that the author means well, even if he is a Mormon, but I have some basic problems with the plot. For example: 1) How did all the lesbians get HIV? 2) For that matter, how did every gay man in the US get HIV? 3) If the government “vaccine” caused the new virus that everyone is dying from, and the new virus is airborne, why isn’t everyone dead? 3a) How did a “vaccine” that kills people within 6 weeks get out of the trials phase? 4)If the media is consolidated enough to support martial law, how did a third party candidate capture the presidency? 5) Everyone in the camp dies within 2-6 weeks of arriving. How long is the incubation period? How long is the disease communicable? How did they get the disease all at the same time? The book was written in 1997, but that was still only ten years ago. It just seems like the author didn’t do enough research or something. Did he not even bother to read And The Band Played On? How did the government get so much better at killing people on purpose?

I’m probably putting way more thought into this than he did, but this is the first podiobook I’ve found that actually addresses gay themes. I wanted it to be much better than it actually was. Actually, that’s been my response to pretty much all gay fiction, so maybe I should just stop getting my hopes up. For people who control the media, we can’t do shit with the novel.

Also, he says “the gays” a lot which really bugs the shit out of me.