text: The AIDS epidemic in S.F. caused many gay males to become monogamous.  I lived in S.F. during the gay bathhouse era. It was a phuckfest and then it wasn't. [Kaposi's sarcoma](URL%27s_sarcoma) was rampant, as the first sign of infection. Some of my best friends have been gay men. I'm currently best friends with a 76-year old gay man who is the best professor of languages I've ever known. He even speak Nahuatl, the Aztec language. FYI, I'm straight.