@AdamF I doubt there was any info printed about it, not sure I never tried to google it. I have a relative who worked for the Surgeon General at the time. Well, there probably is information out there about people frustrated with the governments actions, but not sure it would talk about the behind close doors comments about it being a gay disease, etc. I would bet pharmaceuticals did not want to have to take the extra step, expense, to make the platelets safe, just an assumption on my part, they probably fought regulation on it.
Hell, today there are still people pushing for abstinence only classes for our students when we should be screaming from the roof tops sex can give you cancer and AIDS, and people do die from both. The f!!king government basically did nothing about letting people know you get cancer from your boyfriend, and they have known for years, and neither did the medical establishment. Things were said like, the more sex partners you have, the higher likelihood you can get cervical cancer. That does not tell enough about specifically why, it sounds like a moral judgement. I have known since my late teens, and I am 40. Finally, a pharmaceutical company made a vaccine they want to sell, and suddenly we know HPV causes cervical cancer? Come on!
Bazaar irony, that in one of my examples I accuse pharma for blocking safety regulation, and in the next example I give them credit for getting the word out on the connection between a STD and cancer.