How to Survive a Plague Page #2

My mentor says, "if you ask me,

I think they all deserve to die

because they took it up the butt."

I was deeply closeted and I had to just

stew about it for the rest of the day.

I got myself to the very

next ACT UP meeting.

They could just tap into that

immediate anger and get stuff done.

...we will not leave until an

administrator meets with us

and tells us that St. Vincent's

is willing to make a public

statement condemning gay

and lesbian violence.

All those in favor?

All those opposed?

They're coming!

You see them right there.

You've heard about ACT UP.

You've seen our flyers.

The kiss-in happens tonight.

ACT UP!

Fight back!

Make love!

ACT UP!

Whoo, whoo!

I'll deal with the cameras.

Are you the security guard

that was beating people up?

Members of the mainstream

media were thrown out, as we

were earlier on, but Steve Zabel

and I came back in and we're

bringing you this exclusive footage.

Don't destroy property!

You're destroying property.

Well, actually you damaged

some human property last week.

You damaged people.

You will not beat up on faggots

and you will not beat up

on lesbians in hospitals

in our own community.

Two gay women were beaten up

and when her lover came to

respond... you know the story.

And another story was when two

gay guys came in, one was sick

with AIDS, the security guard

told him to get the f*** out of

here and called him "f*ggot."

I think if you're gonna work,

especially in Greenwich village,

you should have some sensitivity training,

'cause we're not gonna have it.

I'm willing to meet with three

people if the rest of you leave.

Okay, one at a time,

one at a time.

It's unclear how to play it.

My own instinct would be to say,

"we'll be glad to meet with you,

and when the meeting's

over, we'll leave."

Not to leave before the

meeting takes place.

Gregg.

We've shown the kind of power we

can have by immediate action,

by sticking together, by

reaching a consensus together.

We should take this in steps

and we should be cool-headed.

I'm going to take

a straw poll, Okay?

...and we agreed to leave the

waiting room while he met with

three of our representatives:

Gregg, Jerry and Neil, in that

public space right there.

And then we would stick around out here

and wait to see what the outcome was.

So I said, "enough of this,

this job is gonna kill me."

So, I went on disability and

decided to become a

full-time AIDS activist.

In the beginning, what

drugs did we have?

We had nothing.

And the pneumonia could come

on like that, and be gone

and that person is dead.

The skin lesions, the Kaposi's sarcoma was...

people would be

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