08/28/10-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire
Air Force Sergeant David Gutierrez is under investigation by the Air Force Office of Special Investigations. He is alleged to have “engaged in numerous, unprotected sexual acts . . .over the course of three years.” According to some media outlets, Gutierrez will likely be charged with “aggravated assault against several men and women in and around the Wichita, Kansas area” for not having protected sex or informing them of his status as being HIV positive. What is not being reported accurately is that Gutierrez was seeking women for his own sexual acts while seeking men for his wife to have sex with. Several media outlets such as Smoking Gun have tried to make it sound as if Gutierrez was having sex with both men and women.

Gutierrez was stationed at McConnell Air Force Base in Wichita, Kansas where he was apprehended on 8 August for being in alleged violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. His wife Gina has since begun cooperating with authorities in order to protect herself. According to her, he contracted HIV while stationed in Italy in 2007. At the time, he apparently notified his former sexual partners, but stopped doing so once he was reassigned to McConnell AFB. Both are well known to the Witchita swingers scene, though it may have been him who was supposedly addicted to the adult networking websites.

Gutierrez, a twenty year veteran, came under suspicion for his activities after using his work computer to access these sites. He is likely being charged with the aggravated assaults on the men for recruiting them for sex with his wife, who appears to have been a full fledged participant in the activities.

Indeed, so far, the only people interviewed with regards to Sgt. Gutierrez have been women, but it appears that Gina Gutierrez had sexual encounters with both men and women over the course of the last three years, and that she may be in as much trouble as he is due to her sexual contacts with her husband and probable status as also having HIV. Part of Gutierrez’ thinking regarding his HIV positive status has to do with this post on one of his profiles Why are people scared of the HIV virus, don’t you wear condoms to protect yourself from HSV? The research I have done raises several questions on weather or not HIV is even related to AIDs.” There is a lot of rather misleading and inaccurate research out there regarding the issue of the link between HIV and AIDS.

According to one of the two women who has been interviewed so far, Gutierrez was in the habit of taping the sexual encounters that he had with women at these swingers events. Investigators seized his collection of pornography, condoms, vibrators and sex toys, a “blood chemistry report” addressed to Gutierrez from the University of Kansas School of Medicine and two manila envelopes containing some 146 pages of HIV related research.

Information gathered so far by LezGetReal shows that the two were well known to the swingers scene in Kansas, and that the two engaged in the reckless behavior that they were arrested on. Both David and Gina Gutierrez have been implicated in the entire endeavor despite the tendency by some in the media to portray this as being all about Sergeant Gutierrez having reckless, unprotected, and dishonest sex with strangers of both sexes. The portion of the affidavit covering the alleged crimes of Gina Gutierrez were redacted, likely as part of the preparations for a plea deal on her part for her decision to hand over evidence against her husband in order to save herself. Unfortunately, such reckless behavior by certain people within the media only feeds into the propaganda that is already out there that the reason why Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell needs to remain in place is to protect the military from HIV/AIDS. By not reporting that this was a straight couple engaged in sexual acts with other swingers and implying that Sergeant Gutierrez was bisexual and not a straight man who only had sex with women, many in those in the media do the work of the American Family Association, the Family Research Council and Westboro Baptist Church.

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