Is The New York Times' latest health warning unfairly targeting/stigmatizing gay men?

The 1/15/08 online edition of the New York Times reports of a new highly-drug resistant strain MRSA that is striking gay men. The coverage reminds me of early reports of a "gay cancer" in the early 1980s. I am not a scientist, but I was under the impression that it used to spread mostly in hospitals and especially among the elderly. In the past years I'd heard something about it ocurring in gyms with people needing to be more mindful of one another. Not fun but something that we could do something about. 

The above-referenced article seems to (at best) serve as a "warning" that I don't know how to assimilate in a healthy way other than as another "gay physicality = bad," message. There is no analysis or independent value-added by the newspaper. This is just my stream of cosciousness intepretation, which also makes me worry about how non-gay readers will react to this message, and whether smaller mainstream news sources will pump up the volume to feed/make money from existing homophobia. This should be followed as it could be tomorrow's political push button for those wanting to prove that who we are and do is bad.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/15/health/15infe.html?th=&adxnnl=1&emc=th&adxnnlx=1200445269-PQtUhPocUQ573P+rggBTOw