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>>10599815
Because receptive anal transmission rates are a lot higher than receptive vaginal transmission rates.

Homosexuals engage in anal sex a lot more than heterosexuals meaning the rate of transmission among gay people is a lot higher. And before we knew what caused it it seems like only gay people died of it.

Another factor is that the sickness was handwaved away when women had it while when a man had it it was automatically assumed he had a gay relationship.

Last but not least a lot of it was spread through blood transfusions such as for the writer Isaac Asimov. And they had to kept their disease secret for fear of being labeled homosexual. This led to the only people being pubicly known to have aids being homosexuals or presumed homosexuals as normal people kept silent and doctors blamed other causes for females with HIV.

It's a great example of selection bias and how that can change the entire mainstream perception of a disease or event.

Let it be a warning that you shouldn't have quick assumptions and wait for the actual numbers involved to be known before forming a firm believe about something.