Why is HIV and AIDS often linked to gay men?

Question: I thought it can be spread to men or women, and indeed it affects both. So why is it often said to be related to gays?

Answers:
The AIDS epidemic was discovered June 5, 1981, when the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported a cluster of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (now classified as Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia) in five homosexual men in Los Angeles.

Originally dubbed GRID, or Gay-Related Immune Deficiency, health authorities soon realized that nearly half of the people identified with the syndrome were not homosexual men. In 1982, the CDC introduced the term AIDS to describe the newly recognized syndrome, though it was still casually referred to as GRID.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiv#Origin_and_discovery

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The first cases known were from members of the gay community.

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