john winkelman was a college activist during that time. >> reagan didn't push for funding. nothing was happening. >> unfortunately, hiv was impacting first gay men and then drug users. everybody thinks that queers and junkies are expendable. >> let me honest with ourselves. when it comes to preventing aids, don't medicine and morality teach the same lessons? >> no new york, the city's large gay community is especially hard hit. >> a lot of fear and anger. people died very quick, horrible, horrible deaths. >> you had a government that wasn't telling you the answers to any of the questions that any of us had. what was this disease? how was it spread? >> in addition, the stigma and prejudice attached to the disease creates terrible consequences for those infected. >> people were being fire from their job, evicted from their apartment, denied health