In 1982, Universal released John Carpenter's remake of The Thing. The movie, starring Kurt Russell, made its debut when AIDS was just emerging as an epidemic. Except for its unrelenting splash of blood and guts, the movie was not considered remarkable at the time.
In the movie, a monster from space: 1) reproduced itself on an all-male Antarctic base, hiding itself in the bodies of humans; 2) jumped from man to man; 3) was projected on a computer as a disease that would spread exponentially; 4) attacked the base's blood supply; and 5) could be detected by a blood test devised by the hero.
At the end of the film, the viewer was led to believe that the Thing might still be alive. In an extensively edited version for broadcast TV, the monster apparently survived in the body of a dog. In retrospect, Carpenter's Thing was a mythical representation of AIDS; it behaved like the AIDS virus.
Mind of God Reality operates at two levels: 1) linear, observable events in the material world, and 2) nonlinear episodes in the collective unconscious, which are expressed by artists through our culture. These stories from the collective unconscious, or the mind of God, as some might say, are mythical representations of actual events and, in some cases, predict events. The Thing was God's way of telling gays that their bathhouse culture had brought a monster to life.
In the movie, when the monster is discovered, one of the characters, senior biologist Blair, goes "mad" and decides that no one should leave the base alive. He destroys the helicopters, tractors and communications equipment. The other base members overcome and disarm him, and lock him in a shed. As the plot develops, it becomes evident that Blair wasn't so mad after all.
God's message in the story was that you have to identify and kill, or at least quarantine, everyone possessed by the monster (AIDS). We ignored His advice. Instead, our misplaced compassion let the monster escape from the "base" and infect millions of people.