Ο ανοικτά ομοφυλόφιλος και, ανοικτά οροθετικός, γερουσιαστής της Νέας Υόρκης, κύριος Tom Duane, σε μια από τις πιο συναισθηματικές και δυνατές του ομιλίες μιλά στην Γερουσία για τα δικαιώματα των οροθετικών.Ένα απόσπασμα από την Daily News:
"Let me take you back to the early eighties. Visiting friends in hospitals. We'd go in. We'd go in one night, in the morning they'd be dead. I'd bring them food. My family, bring them food. My friends bring someone food. But whoever was in bed would be dead before they could eat it."
"We'd leave it - maybe the nurses would take it home. No! They wouldn't eat it! 'Cause it's contaminated. Contaminated! Wouldn't touch it. Wouldn't go into the room. Wearing masks. Gloves! Gowns! Someone gets sick in the afternoon. They'd be dead the next day. Dead! And that went on for months, and then years. Dead! Dead!"
"You think if you got sick and your friends were dying that I would sit there and do nothing? No. But that's what happened. That's what happened. Every cold. Every virus. Every temperature. I thought I'd be dead, and so did so many people that I knew. Dead! You think you scare me? You think you can make be back off? Nothing scares me."
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