HIV offices attacked - Russia

As if it's not enough to attack gays in Russia over their sexuality, now there has been a very recent attack on an HIV organisation for gay men. I myself have had the odd occasion on this blog where anonymous commenter's have used my HIV against me, not to mention the death threat I got on Facebook which also included hate speech using HIV. This is the stigma associated with the disease; that anti-gay people feel it's OK to use that disease against you. A subtle guilt trip if you will...... but also showing the character of those against you. What sort of human being would do this to the most vulnerable of people? It's OK to attack the sick now?

Anastasia Smirnova, the general project manager of the Interregional Social Movement Russian LGBT Network, reported on Russian queer newsgroups that two masked men with guns and baseball bats attacked a "rainbow social" at the offices of LaSky, an HIV organization for gay men, just over an hour ago. The police reportedly arrived at the LaSky office but left immediately saying they saw no evidence of a crime. Two guests were hospitalized. LGBT activists and lawyers from several LGBT organizations in St Petersburg are working on the incident. more

The article later confirms that two people have been hospitalised, one shot in the eye which he may lose.

This is not only the price of being gay in Russia. It's also the price of having HIV and seeking help. 

Get ready Russia. You're on the cusp of an outbreak of HIV so large it will cross over to the hetro population with ease. Gays and especially HIV+ gays, will go underground and not seek help, not be diagnosed, treated, nothing. The HIV is so stigmatised that people won't risk their lives to turn up to the doctors.