a great topic
in the context of an election year, I ask you, here, in this great hall, or listening in the quiet of yr home
to recognize that AIDS virus is not a political creature, it is not cared whether you are democratic or republican, it is not asked whether you are black or white, male or female, gay or straight, young or old. Tonight I represent an AIDS community whose members have been reluctantly drafted from every segment of American society. the --- n white n a mother. I am one with the black infant struggling with tubs in the Philadelphia hospital. though ---- female ----- this disease in marriage n enjoy the warm support of my family. I am one with the lonely gay man sheltering a flickering candle from the cold wind of his families rejection