[wolverine876]

> The whole 80's govt advice/warnings on HIV were directed at everyone because they didnt want to stigmatise those engaging in non vaginal intercourse.

Gay people were so stigmatized at the time that the government did nothing when they thought it was a 'gay disease'; they just let an epidemic spread and people die. Very few in the 1980s worried about offending gay people. Once it was spreading to people who weren't gay, then I'm sure health information was provided to those people.