00:30You listen to her, you listen to everyone else
00:32I was fighting for the generations that are going to come after me
00:35So that young gay people who are 14 and 15 won't have to grow up the way we did
00:39The fact of the matter is that homosexuality is not something that you do
00:43Homosexuality is something that you are
00:45And people have never looked at us like that before
00:47Vito got very angry
00:49But he had this special gift of being able to be angry
00:53And you're still loving him
00:54Just for a minute or so we'd like to take you back exactly 60 years
00:57To what may be the first gay character in an American motion picture
01:01He was the first person to write about how Hollywood treated homosexuals
01:05I remember Vito as our first gay celebrity
01:08What do you think of today's turnout, Vito?
01:10It's real great, it's bigger than last year
01:12I'm Vito Russo
01:16And tonight on Our Time
01:17We're going to be taking a look at how the gay community is coping
01:19With the most serious crisis in its history
01:22It's gay-related age
01:24People at the time really felt attacked
01:28Let's talk about who's causing this
01:30Who caused it from the very beginning
01:31This disease is not caused by gays
01:35This disease is attacking gays
01:37And only gay people are going to stop it
01:39And Vito was right in the middle from the beginning
01:41There were demonstrations, he was there
01:44Hang in there, Charlie!
01:46People are dying of homophobia
01:48You know, they're not dying because we can't find a treatment or a cure to this disease
01:51We're not trying
01:5240,000 dead from AIDS
01:54Vito had an amazing capacity to take any kind of adversity
01:58And fuel his anger and his activism
02:02None of us who are here today are going to shut up
02:05Vito just stood up and said, look at me, I have AIDS
02:07It was enormously powerful
02:09He took a stand
02:11He is our gay hero
02:13I'm not heights
02:15I'm not a cancer
02:16I'm not a cancer
02:17He is my target
02:19I'm not a cancer
02:20I'm not-
02:20I'm not a cancer
02:22I'm not a cancer
02:23I'm not a cancer
02:24I'm a cancer
02:26I'm a killer
02:27I'm a mús on bio
02:28I'm a rage
02:30He is inside
02:31He is a song
02:33I'm a male
02:34P�ED
02:35I'm not a nurse
02:38He isacción
02:40You're not staff
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