To many New Yorkers, he was their brash and blustery mayor. But friends are now describing the private strain endured by a public man laboring to conceal his sexual orientation.
don t have numbers, potentially have lost power in their houses. to heat that act up, so much more. 50% more than it did a year ago year ago. emily: you re right, they re in virginia almost 300,000 people are without power right now. it is terrible. there is nothing worse than watching our fellow americans in those cars right now. to tim kaine s point, seniors, children, put, and pets. they are stranded for hours, freezing to death or worse. they get home and there s electricity and they are charged quadruple or worse for it. it is an absolute travesty. the department of transportation agency there in virginia said part of a compound of the emergency was that they were responding to more than 6600 accidents. traffic cameras went out, we had a truck driver who called into fox news saying you could knock on truck drivers cabs, they
well. there s so many people in life that have rough times in their lives, you know. got an alcoholic father. which you did. ..who tried to kill me with a butcher knife, a mother who died of cancer and almost, i mean, that almost destroyed me i mean, it took me ten years to get over that but. ..i can t blame. i can t. like on my father s side, you get too many people in the world that act up and do things and they go, well, my father did this, and so this is why. and i don t live that way. i love my father. i ve forgiven my father. god bless him, you know, and my mother and i m going to cry now, because i don t do that. no sense of blame in you? no, you can t. you just took responsibility for your own life. i take responsibility for my life and my life only. so, let s get to that, you were raised in texas, but you made it to new york and you made it into hair and i think in los angeles, you got a part in the musical and within a pretty short time, you were in the rock and roll b
that same year, larry kremer, one of the founders of two activist groups, a legend himself, published this open letter to dr. fauci in the village voice in which he calls fauci a, quote, incompetent idiot, and quote, a murderer. kremer told the new yorker, as far as i was concerned, he was the central focus of evil in the world. kremer attacked fauci relentlessly in the media. he called him a pill pushing tool of the medical establishment, insulted his wife, even compared him to adolph aikman. now, here s the thing. kremer and fauci would eventually go on to become close friends. with fauci telling the new york times after kremer s death in 2020 that they, quote, loved each other. but nothing changed overnight. in may of 1990, hundreds of activists from act up descended on the national institutes of health again. they launched rainbow colored smoke, wore skelcon masks and wore signs that said red tape kills us.