nophobia or homophobia." Mann said that HIV had become "a problem for les exclues, the excluded ones, living at the margin of society."
Some of the early theories concerning the origin and transmission of HIV infection were very primitive. One was the single source theory, the idea that infection could be traced back to a single source, such as the gay flight attendant on Air Canada who infected a number of sexual partners in North America and Europe, the biological theory that some force was aiming to destroy civilization by the deliberate spread of the infection, the Poppers Theory, that a major source of infection was those who ingested amyl nitrate, or that the HIV virus was a mutation of a virus found in animals.
Other lurid examples are provided by Closen and Wojcik:
-The refusal of TV technicians to tape an interview with an AIDS patient.
-The Maryland judge who wanted to hold the trial of an HIV-infected defendant in prison rather than in court.
-Parishioners in Illinois who refused to attend
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