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different place and in a
completely different
state of mind.
So then the question became,
Okay, now what do we need to do
in order to make it possible?
This is the beginning of the primary
season to elect the next president.
We want to send a message to all
of the candidates... we have not
seen them actively address the
AIDS plague, and we thought
it would be best to send a message by
voting with our feet in the streets.
I want to call for a massive
march on Washington.
The weekend the AIDS
quilt is gonna be there.
We have got to surround the
white house with people
bush out of the white house!
Last night a man with
AIDS heckled Clinton,
charging that he had a bad record
on fighting AIDS in Arkansas.
When voter Bob Rafsky met Bill
Clinton, it was anything but pleasant.
We're dying in this state, what
are you going to do about AIDS?
First of all, it will become a
part of my obsession as president.
And that's why I'm running for
president, to do something about it.
Will you just calm down?
I feel your pain!
I feel your pain, but if you
want to attack me personally,
you're no better than Jerry
brown and all the rest of these
people who say whatever
sounds good in the moment.
If you want something to be done,
you ask me a question, you listen.
If you don't agree with me,
go support somebody else for
president, but quit
talking to me like that.
This is not a matter of personal
attack, it's a matter of human loss.
I came here tonight because
I'm dying from AIDS.
And it doesn't matter to me who
the next president is if they
don't change 11 years of government
neglect of this epidemic.
Is this on?
This isn't on.
Um, Okay, first off, um,
what happened this week was AIDS
became an issue in this campaign.
I'd like to call
down Bob Rafsky.
ACT UP!
Fight back!
Fight AIDS!
ACT UP!
Fight back!
Fight AIDS!
Uh, never debate a Rhodes scholar...
it gets you into a world of trouble.
It looks like what we have to do
is to keep forcing these clowns
to say the right thing so that
if one of them happens to become
president, we can hold them accountable
for doing the right thing.
Yeah.
But I just... it's always
important to say that we all
know that the names of the
people who might save our lives
are not Bill Clinton
and Jerry brown, etc.
might save our lives are
iris long, Mark Harrington,
Peter Staley, etc.
And they're the ones who will be
remembered as the heroes of this epidemic,
as well as those who have gone before.
...and he smells
like one, too.
Well, I haven't showered,
so I'm not surprised...
No, I've just been writing and
I was up at 5 A.M. yesterday.
This is Bob's birthday,
July 22nd, 1992.
- Ready for the pyrotechnics?
- Yes!
Nathaniel, help.
No!
Yay!
Lydia E. Rios.
Steve H.
My friends David Evans,
Nicolas kaiser, George Marshall,
and my beloved brother Dennis J.
Robert R. Hakins.
Phillip Gregory Ellison.
Terry Ronan.
Michael Bennett.
Ron Field.
Tina Chow.
Perry Ellis.
Freddie Mercury.
Peter Allen.
To the thousands of other people who
were made to suffer in silence.
Join ACT UP for a
political funeral!
Meet at the South of
the capitol at 1 P.M.
Give a wake-up call to George
Bush and Bill Clinton and Perot.
I think the quilt itself does
good stuff and is moving.
Still, it's like making something beautiful
out of the epidemic, and I felt like doing
something like this is a way of showing
there's nothing beautiful about it.
You know, this is what I'm left with...
I've got a box full
of ashes and bone chips.
You know, there's
no beauty in that.
And I felt like a statement like
this is like saying "this is
what George Bush has
done," you know?
This is what him and Ronald
Reagan before him have done.
These are our loved ones and
this is what they've been
reduced to, and we're bringing them to the
person who's responsible for their death.
Fight back!
Fight AIDS!
ACT UP, fight back, fight AIDS!
ACT UP, fight back, fight AIDS!
ACT UP, fight back, fight AIDS!
ACT UP!
Fight back!
Fight AIDS!
Bringing the dead to your door!
We won't take it anymore!
Bringing the dead to your door!
We won't take it anymore!
Bringing the dead to your door!
We won't take it anymore!
Bringing the dead to your door!
ACT UP!
Fight back!
Fight AIDS!
ACT UP!
ACT UP!
Fight back!
Fight AIDS!
ACT UP!
Fight back!
Fight AIDS!
ACT UP!
Fight back!
Fight AIDS!
ACT UP!
Fight back!
Fight AIDS!
Shame, shame, shame, shame!
Shame, shame, shame, shame!
Shame, shame, shame, shame...
I love you, Mike!
I love you, Mike!
Welcome to the first of three
debates among the major
candidates for President of the
United States, sponsored by the
commission on
presidential debates.
Mr. president, yesterday tens
of thousands of people paraded
past the white house to demonstrate
their concern about the disease, AIDS.
A celebrated member of your
commission, magic Johnson,
quit saying that there
was too much inaction.
Where is this widespread feeling
coming from that your administration
is not doing enough about AIDS?
I can't tell you where it's
coming from, but I am very much
concerned about AIDS, and I
believe that we've got the
best researchers in the world
out there at n.I.H.
Working the problem.
It's one of the few diseases
where behavior matters.
And I once called on somebody,
"well, change your behavior.
If the behavior you're using, uh, prone
to cause AIDS, change the behavior."
Next thing I know, one of these
ACT UP groups is out saying bush
ought to change his behavior.
You can't talk about
it rationally.
Let everyone here know
that this is not a
political funeral for Mark
Fisher, who wouldn't let us burn
or bury his courage...
Or his love for us any more than
he would let the earth take his body
until it was already in flight.
He asked for this ceremony,
not so we could bury him,
but so we could celebrate
his undying anger.
This isn't a political funeral
for Mark, it's a political
funeral for the man who killed
him and so many others,
and is slowly killing me.
Whose name curls my tongue
and curdles my breath.
George Bush, we believe you'll
be defeated tomorrow because we
believe there's still some
justice left in the universe
and some compassion left
in the American people.
But whether or not you are, here
and now, standing by Mark's
body, we put this curse on you.
Mark's spirit will haunt you
until the end of your days,
so that in the moment of your defeat,
you'll remember our defeats.
And in the moment of your death,
you'll remember our deaths.
As for Mark, when the living can
no longer speak, the
dead may speak for them.
Mark's voice is here with us,
as is the voice of pericles, who
Athenian soldiers who didn't
have to die, and in whose death
he was complicit, but who had
the nobility to say that their
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