Monkey virus, scientists: “It’s not AIDS, nor are gays gays”

A few words were enough for the shadow to return. The specter of social stigma, the terrible memory of the years of AIDS. It was enough for the ECDC, the European center for disease control, to specify that the first cluster of human transmission of monkeypox would take place “in a closed community of men who have sex with other men”, to trigger the fear of new homophobic campaigns.