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Roger Gail Lyon:
This is not a political issue. This is a health issue. This is not a gay issue. This is a human issue. And I do not intend to be defeated by it. I came here today in the hope that my epitaph would not read that I died of red tape
This is not a political issue. This is a health issue. This is not a gay issue. This is a human issue. And I do not intend to be defeated by it. I came here today in the hope that my epitaph would not read that I died of red tape
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This is not a political issue This is a health issue
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This is not a gay issue This is a human issue
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Had this disease afflicted children
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or members of the Chamber of Commerce
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I'm sure the Reagan administration
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would've been breaking down all doors
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in order to push the government
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on all fronts to deal with it
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I came here today in the hope
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that my epitaph would not read
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that I died of red tape
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Movie Summary
The story of the discovery of the AIDS epidemic, and the political infighting of the scientific community hampering the early fight with it.
