One of the themes which overlap with materials covered in the class is the social stigma attached to being a …show more content…
As pointed out in the movie, despite over 40,000 people dying of AIDS, there were no initiatives being taken by the federal government to addressing the epidemic. This was also heighted in the article written by Larry Kramer which we read in our class as he mentioned how CDC and NIH were deliberately not doing anything to learn about AIDS or help curb the epidemic. As a result, hospitals and doctors were unprepared and underequipped to help the patients. Many people were unbale to get hospital beds and had to be turned away or simply die in the hospital corridors. Even when the first drug AZT was invented to treat AIDS, its price was set up too high which made it unaffordable to the patients. It was due to this blatant institutional discrimination that many lives were lost until ACT UP fought to lower the prize of the drug and make it accessible to gay men, women, drug users, and people of