community we learned a lesson about not planning our lives. the lesson was that, we knew we had to take care of each other. we looked at this desperate situation and felt something needed to be done. ♪. aids project los angeles was the first agency to be formed in los angeles county to respond to aids. >> we just had these meetings in our living room. and that was how it all started being organized. >> nancy is on the board of director of the aids project los angeles. >> i hate aids. i hate the disease, i hate aids, i hate the fact that no one has been able to reel get a grip on what this is and how to stop it. >> if you can not catch it tonight, commitment to life is streaming on peacock, make sure to watch it at any time. this is it for us this weekend. catch us each saturday and sunday at 7:00 p.m.

eastern, follow us on x and instagram. until we meet again, as promised, commitment to life starts right now. ♪ now. ♪ (brooding music) - it's difficult to remember a time when it wasn't here. ♪ ♪ recall when the word . it is difficult to remember a time when it was not here. harder still to recall when the word finally permeated your conscious and became real and deadly. it has infected everything. not just the immune systems of those whose lives it takes, but all of us it leaves behind to try to comprehend something

that is incomprehencable. we don't know who we are before it all we know is who we are right now. if we stand up, if we find strength, then we will bring honor. in the end, to remember is simply not enough. ♪ enough. ♪ (group vocalizing) (group vocalizing) (group vocalizing)

(group vocalizing) (group vocalizing) (group vocalizing) (dramatic music) (gentle upbeat music) - growing up, la was a spot that you wanted to come. it was hollywood, it was movie stars, ♪. growing up, l.a. was the spot that you wanted to come. it was hollywood, it was movie stars. and this is where you come to get the life that you were denied in whatever small town you were in. >> people come to l.a. because they want to be part of a dream. glamour, hollywood, blonds.

i was sitting in patterson, new jersey, thinking this is where i want to be. west hollywood was a part of the town that was the gay part of town, they called it the boys town. the hills above sunset were the swish alps. [music] above sunset were the swish alps. [music] (group chattering) . >> everybody dowent to west hollywood because they felt freer to be who they were. >> we could walk down the street with another man who was clearly our boyfriend and see other people who looked like us. there was a community. you felt supported and you felt safe. >> it is wonderful to be here today celebrating gay pride with all of you. >> it was a lot of fun. but being in west hollywood, there was always the possibility of you being treated a little different. especially if you are a person of color. yet it still did not stop us from going. >> when i got to l.a.

i did not know where the lbgtq community was. i remember i took a drive through west hollywood and there was nothing but white boys with no shirts on. i immediately felt like i am not welcome here. and, luckily a friend of mine was like, girl, you are in the wrong part of town. you need to get over to catch one. and literally my life turned around [music] e. and literally my life turned around [music] catch one discotheque, and catch one was this black gay club . >> jewel thais-williams opened the legendary black gay club "catch one" it was a black gay club in the heart of black l.a. ♪. >> catch was a community for people of color. and the kids always stayed fresh. my customers they would come to the catch one because this was a place where they could come

and be. i am happy about that. >> it was in the early '80s. it was first signs of it. we had a drag show at my club and the mistress of ceremony did not show up for her gig on a thursday night and it is like, what? someone came in and said she was ill all week and she gone to the hospital and they thought she had pneumonia. but, within a couple weeks april was dead. >> i remember it. i read about it in fronteers. it was just the report that there was a virus going on in

the town with gay men in town. it caught people's attention, it caught mine. it caught people's attention, it caught mine. - we're dealing with what medical researchers are now calling gay related immunodeficiency diseases, we are wildealing with what medical researchers are now calling gay-related immunity deficiencies, grid if you will. >> it was early. nobody knew what was going on. >> when it got real was starting to have friends that were getting sick and dying. >> it was known as the gay cancer and we started seeing people on the streets with scars. >> it was a skin cancer, purple or violet patches on the skin,

sometimes on the face, very distressing. it was an unknown in terms of how to treat it. >> tonight, 300 people attended the first mas meeting held within the gay community to alert homosexuals about the related decease that slow up exclusively in gay men. >> we published something. in the cdc's journal morrability and mortality weekly report. we were describing what we now know as aids. ♪ ♪ .

lots of periods of depression and terror and just really again, the sense of hopelessness. . >> i have gone through so many changes since it again. a lot of depression, terror, just really, again, the sense of hopelessness. >> a long-term friend of mine, tom mccoy, his partner of a store that i had. within a month after we opened the store he came down with it. he did not have insurance and they put him into county. and i went to visit him. and it was everything, it was a hellhole. he was in a room with 20 other patients. at that point nobody knew how it was transmitted. and, so, nurses would not go near them. >> there were all of these guys

that no one visited. there were people not visiting them. there was no one fighting. no one fighting for them. >> growing up in the gay community we sort of learned a lesson by that point in our lives. the lesson was that we knew we had to take care of each other. we looked at this desperate situation and felt something needed to be done. ♪. >> aids project los angeles was the first agency to be formed in los angeles county to respond to aids. >> we just would have these meetings in our living room. and, that was how apla all started being organized. >> nancy is on the board of director on the aids project los angeles. >> i hate aids. i hate the disease, i hate aids, i hate the fact that no

one has been able to really get a grip on what this is and how to stop it. >> nancy called, she was a caring, compassionate person and would do anything for anybody that needed help. nancy was very connected in the gay community in los angeles. all of her best friends were gay men. >> when we started apla we first raised $7,000. it was a lot of money in 1982 for a small charity. at the very beginning, we rented a tiny office on cole avenue on hollywood avenue. we had two rooms, most of it taken up by the hot line. >> we recruited volunteers and trained them to answer phone calls from people with all of the information that we knew about hiv. >> aids hot line, manual speaking >> there were so many calls and

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hospitals would not take them. mortuarys would not take them. the reality of having aids can be awful. >> i nearly killed myself with alcohol because i was very closeted and very ashamed of being gay. and, i got into recovery. i became a minister. and i was the pastor of the metro church in the valley. i had my first symptoms in '82. and i got sick with everything. i had hepatitis, herpies, shingles. i was horribly sick. they said i would not live to see 1985. i was the first member of the

clergy to be diagnosed with aids. when i was so very sick nobody wanted to come to my house and maybe touch something or breathe something that was going to contaminate them or get them sick with aids. >> reporter: we created the buddy system at apla. people volunteered to adopt a person with aids and be their buddy and they would spend time with them. >> how are you doing? >> hey, how are you. >> nice to see you. >> yeah. >> they would have lunch with them, take them on erranda. arrange to take them to the doctor. >> ours is the building of trust and a strong friendship. >> i can not change billy's medical situation. there is nothing i can do to make that different. but i can be there when he needs a shoulder to cry on or just somebody to litch to him ramble on if that -- listen to

him or ramble on if that is what needs to happen. >> beyond buddy. our relationship has gone farther than that. >> in the early days you could help take care of people. you could visit them, you could be their friend but you could not save them. you just couldn't. at apla, every thursday afternoon at 4:00 we had a memorial service for everybody who died that week. we had grieving counseling for staff because it was so hard. but that is knowing about a third of the staff died the first year they was there.

and,um . >> let me begin with the latest numbers in los angeles county. today they show 56 new cases of aids diagnosed here locally last month. brings the national total now to about 10,000. >> while a lot of theories were put out there as to the cause of aids, the earliest days, though, we suspected that this was a virus. the fact that it was occurring among gay men, blood transfusion recipients and drug users it looked like blood born and sexual infection >> it is a virus, labeled at hiv. for human immunodefficency

virus. >> using a needle that had been previously used by someone infected. the next highest risk is associated with sexual activities >> we put out pasm information on it. what to avoid. >> i don't think there had ever been a campaign to change people's behavior regarding health like we did with hiv and aids. >> and i have to say our staff at apla did a great job with mother cares. >> mother wants you to be extra careful to play with your friends; she is from poltergeist. she played mother. the purpose was to educate people at risk. it was done deliberately to

show gay men you need to have safe sex and this is how you can do it. >> rubbers! >> in l.a. we had clinics within the bathhouses. we did not want people in the alleys and the streets and we wanted places to educate them. >> one day i saw ads for gay health clubs and i called them up and i asked if people were friendly. [ laughter ] >> and the queen on the other end of the phone said, well, sweetheart, that totally depends on you. a few weeks later i went. and i went to sit in the lounge where they were showing pornography. and down the stairs came this guy and he sat down be side me and he asked me to go up to his

room and i said why do people keep asking me that? and he just laughed and he said because that is where people go to have sex. and so, we had sex in the bathhouse that night. it was my first sexual encounter. and about three months later we moved in together. we fell in love. and it was everything. ♪. >> my process of kind of understanding hiv personally actually took a long time. because i, like most other people, believed the mischaracterization of the epidemic in the beginning. that it was a white gay disease.

but, i was in a relationship with a white man. so it was something that was on my mind. >> the disease that was first perceived by the black community everywhere as a white gay problem is now threatening the lives of black men, women and children in l.a. >> in the black community, you can talk to people and they can tell you someone 20 years old or 30 years old who died of pneumonia, cancer, meningitis, it is not click that this could possibly be aids >> it was all over the news, it was about white folks and white men in particular. but, actually, more black people got it per capita. black men mostly. but there were women that got it, too. >> this los angeles woman has aids. she says when she found out that her husband was an iv drug user she left him but it was too late. >> many, plane ways for black and brown people the way it was

responded to was ignore it. dismiss it. push it to the side and pretend it does not exist. you just don't talk about it ex. you just don't talk about it

(melancholic music) - with regard to the federal response, it's so important who is in charge at the time of a crisis. . with regard to the federal response. it is so important who is in large at the time of the

crisis. that was ronald reagan. he had just become president in january of 1981. and the hiv epidemic came to attention in june of 1981. but it did not catch the attention of the president or high ranking people in hhs and people who knew what the potential was. >> white house official confirms the president never talked to his surgeon general about aids or read the report that was sent to him last october. >> i don't know what reagan was hearing. he had been an actor in hollywood. so, he certainly knew gay people from the business. so, what was going on in this white house? it was the sway of these conservative christians.

who said, leave it alone. these are not legitimate people. this is their own fault. let them deal with it. >> if the american people knew the filthy and bloody sexual events that transpire between homosexuals they would be a national revulsion unparallel in this country. >> it was discrimination that killed a lot of us. we were not given credibility that we were important enough to do the research and the treatment. >> we are here to try to help with this horrible thing called aids. >> we put on benefits for service organizations like apla. >> i am standing in front of the roxy theater where a special 10:00 performance of "women behind bars dwts is the first performance is given as a benefit for aids. i would like to talk with a minute with max drew who is the

plan that organized it. max, why does you put on this particular benefit? >> women behind bars seemed appropriate for the fun of the event. we are trying to stimulate interest in the film community for participation. >> the reason i became a celebrity spokesperson at all was because i was nelly olson on "little house on the prairie" i was really awful. i enjoyed it enormously. >> nelly, i have to talk to you. >> and then, they decided to marry her off. i was so happy when steve tracy showed up. he was as cute as a bug and freckles and curly hair and the nicest person in the world. we stayed friends after the show. and, people thought that he and i were dating. but, i found out he was gay early on. then in the '80s he got sick

and he called and told me that, in fact, i have aids. so, suddenly my phone rang. they were asking me, medical questions and epidemiology questions. if they are asking an actress questions about this serious disease something is wrong with this picture. so, at aids project los angeles i signed up for the speakers bureau. i went everywhere and talked about people with aids and i was able to provider provide information. >> we got celebrity support where we could. but, so much stigma. stigma around hiv but the other risk was many celebrities in hollywood at the time were not out. and, the common understanding for gay celebrity was if you come out in support an hiv

cause everyone is going to assume you are gay. it will hurt your career. >> l look me over. >> everything was so hush-hush. everything was so closeted. you just did not advertise it. in the late '70s, early '80s that started to change culturally. but definitely not in the entertainment business. it was a tightly held secret. i was really young in the beginning of the aids epidemic. but i knew very early on that something bad was happening. the relationship between her and the gay community was always very strong. >> you know how i know who is gay or not gay? can we talk her? [ laughter ] >> and, so, she did a big aids

fundraiser in l.a. >> mrs. joan rivers >> i remember it being very crowded. i remember it being very outrageous. it was very successful. it raised money. and, it opened doors. >> each city had to use the resources of that city. new york had the gay men's health crisis. a very important, very active organization. san francisco obviously had a very vibrant gay community. in los angeles we got star power. >> do you feel like you or anyone you know personally are at risk of getting aids? >> in the early days, we had a bad brand. people did not want to associate with it. they wanted to say the gay boys are getting what they deserve for their behavior, right? so that was one of our goals was to change the brand and we

knew that getting hollywood involved and getting that legitimacy was going to be key. peter scott was our board chair. he came up with the idea of having a benefit dinner. something called "commitment to life." and remember this is in '85, nobody was supporting much of anything. we put together some ideas. who makes the most sense for something called "commitment to life"? and there were three draws at that time. the pope, queen elizabeth, and elizabeth taylor and we said well we can not get the first two but we can probably get the third. >> elizabeth taylor was the biggest movie star in the world. she was the last great movie star of the golden age. she was what every girl in the world wanted to and be many of

the boys. >> she was working in a creative business. so, she had gay people around her her whole life. >> thank you, my friends >> in the '80s. elizabeth was making some tv movies and kind of living her life. aids was in the news. she would go to a cocktail party and people are like whispering. there is this awful thing and she was getting more and more angry and frustrated. why is nothing happening? >> i was made so aware of the silence. this huge loud silence regarding aids. how no one wanted to talk about it. nobody wanted to become involved. it so angered me that i finally thought to myself, , do something yourself. >> elizabeth was well aware of

the fame that she had. and, she realized she was in a unique position to be able to put her face to aids. >> we had a fundraising event. the pre-sale "commitment for life" and she went >> it is a desperate situation. it needs everybody's help now. >> it was her very first aids event. >> i became so personally frustrated at the rejection i was receiving by just trying to get people's attention. >> that was what it was like until rock hudson got sick. >> rock hudson has aids. >> rock hudson was completely in the closet. but elizabeth knew that rock was gay. they were friends. >> liz and rock. today's two most exciting stars in the only picture big enough

to bring them together "giant." >> in january of 1985, she received an award. >> ladies and gentlemen, mrs. elizabeth taylor. [ cheers and applause ] ntlemen elizabeth taylor. [ cheers and applause ] she was cewith r.rock and he di not look very well. she asked him about it but he said it was cancer. >> mr. hudson is evaluated and treated for complications of acquired immune deficiency syndrome. >> reporter: elizabeth found out rock had aids at the same time everybody else. she got in touch with michael gontley and he took her to see rock. so she had a chance to say good-bye.

>> what we all have to do is go out tonight, tomorrow, grab our neighbors, our friends, our acquaintances, grab them by the throats if necessary. make them understand, break the barrier. >> reporter: rock hudson put a face to the disease for the world. and that was invaluable in helping us move along, the idea, that everybody needs to be concerned about this. >> tonight in los angeles some of the biggest names in show business will host a widely publicized benefit for aids. >> ladies and gentlemen, mrs. elizabeth. >> the emotions were raw. everyone was effected by it. >> all we can do at there point is help our friends who have aids -- [ cheers and applause ] . >> and the only way we can do

that is by doing what you are doing. by giving, giving of support, money, and love. >> that evening it was amazing. it was all of these big famous people coming together to say, we see you. that had not happened yet. that was the first time that happened. >> when we first put this on we were target 400,000. >> it is not someone else's problem. >> we raised $1.3 million. >> if you have one message about why they should really care. >> it is human being's life. if you care about anything, if you care about yourself, you have to care what happens to others. others. zevo is made with essential oils which attack bugs' biological systems. it wipes cleanly, plus is safe for use around people and pets.

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the aids antibody test. . this is it, the the test everyone is talking about. the aids antibody test. >> i decided that i should take the test because chris is already experiencing severe symptoms. and, so, i went to get tested. two weeks later, i went to get my results and it turns out that i was hiv positive. and everything started to spin. and i began to cry. and i was completely overwhelmed by the in addition that i was going to die. >> 37-year-old chris brownlye and 31 phil wilson have been a couple for eight years. phil has aids-related complex, he is healthier than chris who was diagnosed as having aids

last february. >> we really went into political mode. and then the campaign happened. >> larouche was a right wing crazy character. but he did catch a moment of lack of understanding about hiv aids >> i am afraid i will get it from casual contact. i don't care what they say, you can get it from casual contact. >> larouche was able to put prop 64 and it would of quarantined people with aids. >> aids victims must be isolated from general society until a cure is found so we don't catch that disease, am i right? >> at that point, 60% of californians did not know how aids was transmitted. >> only way to stop it is

quarantine people, i don't think there is any way around it. i think they will have to do it. >> in the early '80s, gay people had just been decriminalized 10 years earlier then they said we are not insane. we come so far to create a community. and all of a sudden they are talking about rounding us all up and putting us in camps. >> a lot of the queer community was mobilized. >> no on 64. >> for the fight against the larouche initiative. direct mail drive. we got a logo. >> in california, opposition to the initiative is building >> when you have a proposition like 64 you defeat it. >> no on 64 campaign was a victory. the cheers and celebration last night there were sighs of relief. >> voters of california herely

made a choice to have public health policy to stay in the hands of the professionals. >> it was roundly defeated and it was a major step in our community. >> the ethic that took root in the lbgtq community was, we are going to take responsibility for stopping the spread of this disease. >> as far as i was concerned in our work, if you were hiv positive or not in your mind you were. it was only a matter of time and you were part of a community that glued itself together and so, it started making people be activists instead of just active. >> reporter: west hollywood, recently formed city with a large gay and lesbian community. that community is protected by a city council that considering

gay rights a priority. >> because there was the first gay majority in the nation, west hollywood was the fertile ground for an lbgt community to come forward. it brought up medical issues but also legal issues >> i was diagnosed in april. and i was out of a job. >> people could lose their job. or lose their apartment, or lose their insurance if they were hiv positive. so, city of west hollywood passed a law no discrimination on the basis of hiv status. those people are protected by the city because there is flow state or federal law that protects them at this point. >> no one offered us a seat at the table. so, we did things like establish relationships with politicians. with respected people in the non-gay community. we got to the point where we

could get admitted to the mayor's office. we were not shunned and we were able to accomplish a great deal. >> meeting of the subcommittee will come to order. >> some members of congress were waking up to this . and henry waxman had a safe seat and he was chairman of the subcommittee. the exact subcommittee we had to deal with. i sat in his office and we talked about aids and he listened and he acted. >> this is not liberal or conservative, it is not a democratic or republican position. i believe that we have crafted legislation that can slow the spread of aids. >> the bill is passed. >> the federal government provided some money. not enough. but money was pro righted and we struggled through. pro right we struggled through. new places. r discoveg no one wants to be known for cancer,

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64. - we defeated prop 64ay. by a tremendous margin, but the issues around discrimination . snow on 64. no on 64. >> we defeated prop 64 by a tremendous margin. but the issues around discrimination and criminalizing hiv continued to go on. >> the civil rights of the uninfected people are as much entitled as the civil rights of the infected. >> there was a guy named danon meyer who was a total creep. >> if you have the virus and

you engage in sexual activity with another human you committed a crime. >> he was so active in putting forth these irrational initiatives. >> failed to take action by pro ducting public health by shutting down these aids factories that we sometimes call them bath factories. >> there were a lot of victories on that side making it illegal to transmit the virus. make it illegal if you are positive to spit on a policeman. making it illegal if you did not disclose your hiv status even if you did not infect anyone. and some of those laws are on the books today. >> elizabeth became the spokesperson for national aids research foundation. i traveled with her to

washington and we met with senators. she wanted them to know they had to be supportive of funding. >> it is my hope that history will show that the american people and our leaders met the challenge of aids racially and with all of the resources of their disposal. >> she was willing to do whatever it took to get the politicians to get their head's out of the sand. >> we did a fundraiser in washington and reagan had not yet said the word "aids." >> reporter: elizabeth met with him. and, said, do it for me. and, reagan spoke. uttered the word "aids" for the first time. >> spending on aids has been one of the fastest-growing parts of the budget. and ladies and gentlemen it deserves to be. [ applause ]

>> just the fact that he was there after so much silence was very important. he signs bills. i mean, leis the president of the united states. the speech was going along fine until he mentioned mandatory testing. >> i always asked hhs to add the aids virus to the list of contagious diseases for which immigrants and aliens seeking permanent residence in the united states can be denied entry. [booing ]. >> the president had never been booed, i am sure. but, i can assure you that me and many of my friends blame him for many, many deaths. >> it had taken reagan his entire precedency to even say the words. there were still unbelievable bias coming out of congress. so, we had to multitask.

>> we are part of this community. and it belongs to us as much as it belongs to anyone else.. >> and then we began to look at the impact of hiv and aids along racial lines. >> aids is an equal opportunity disease. but we can all fight and win if he hang together. >> from the very beginning of the epidemic. trans people were not included. many communities of color were left behind, unfortunately. and, so, the challenges for me as someone who is hiv positive and someone who was trying to access health care, that was -- specific to my needs, there wasn't any. >> los angeles it has a huge asian community. we had a good mix of chinese,

japanese, korean, vietnamese, we have a big thai community here in los angeles. and our big thing in los angeles was that we need to get asian people tested. and at the time, filipino men were the most infected. and, so, being gay filipino man i had a personal investment. i started doing aids work and found out there were a lot of communities of color that did not want to be identified as someone with aids. >> so it was a shame. they contracted the disease. they did not want to go out. some of them when their families found out they were hiv positive turned their back on them. >> too many to even mention.

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as the aids hospice foundation. - the person with aids has been treated with neglect and disrespect by our society in general. in los angeles county opening this facility today says that that era is over. (birds chirping) - we got ahold of this old tuberculosis hospital right by dodger stadium and we built the chris brownlie hospice. the plan was that it would be a place that chris could go in the end. for the longest time, we literally did not allow ourselves to think about him dying, but when it became clear that the time was short, he and i were in the room alone and i told him that it was okay,

that it was okay for him to go. chris took a breath, and then he took another breath, and i laid there with my head on his shoulder. they came to take him away. and i remember thinking, why are they in such a hurry? don't they know what just happened? (brooding music) (group chattering) - we marched on washington on october the 11th, 1987, and i know it's that date because i was there. - i'm at the capitol mall where the names project aids quilt is to be unveiled. is h the names project a.i.d quilt is to be unveiled. each panel of this huge quilt bears the name of someone who

has died of a.i.d.s. there are over 2000 names of this quilt, today. what a graphic and loving tribute to our family. ashingtoc >> why had we all flown to washington, d.c.? it's because this was our cemetery. we were laying our dead before president reagan and congress. this is something we all had in common. out of that came a whole new level of activism. >> there comes a breaking point, where people are just fed up with not being seen, not being heard, not being honored, as human beings. a.i.d.s. is one of the great catalysts,

of saying, "we've had it." i know a lot of you want us to go away, but we are going to be even more in-your-face now, because we are fighting for our lives. act up was started by larry kramer in new york. out of that came act up tractors all over the country. >> we are not here to please anyone, to make friends, we are here to save our lives and the lives of the people with hiv. >> i feel an urgency as a person with a.i.d.s., and if it had not been for act up, i am not sure that we would have azt. accept was instrumental in getting the fda to speed up approval of these drugs. >> the government today approved the sale of the first drug for the treatment of a.i.d.s.

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in the world where the desert storm has taken our attention, away from a winter storm that has attacked american people for 10 years, killing more people than the vietnam war , tonight, we take a moment to think about this. i have to tell you that just three hours ago, and employee, for six years, of a.i.d.s. project los angeles, died of a.i.d.s. >> i spent half of my time raising money. it was cocked his -- cocktails and funerals every day. >> a pla was barely solvent, so every way that we could think about raising money, we raised money. >> diller was a top executive in the entertainment industry and still is. i called him and asked for a meeting and they said, mr.

diller invites you to dinner at his home on saturday night. i show up, and there is very diller, david gaffin, and sandy gallo. those were the top agents. they were all moguls in the entertainment industry, and rich, which was nice. at the end of the meeting, i was politely dismissed. two days later, the treasurer called me and said, we just got a big check from them. fundraising became easier. >> when the first person i knew died, i couldn't bring myself to throw a card away. i have a rubber band around 341 card -- cards. mcdavid was such a powerful, influential force of nature in the creative community. he is the one who introduced me to a pla.

i was always influenced in the world in which there was the obligation of people that have to take care of people that have not. i felt, given the positions of influence that i had, that it made it safe for other people in our community to show up. >> the first commitment to life was a success and the second one raised just under $1 million. commitment to life grew and became an annual event. ♪ i feel pretty, oh, so pretty ♪ i feel witty, and pretty, and bright ♪

♪ and i pity any girl who isn't me tonight ♪ ♪ i feel charming as it went on commitment to life was the flagship event of apla. >> as it went on, commitment to life was a flagship event. >> the commitment to life award, i had to come to the valley to get it. >> from that moment on, commitment to life became something rational and extraordinary. they were amazing, they raised millions of dollars, they were great fun. - aids makes your responsibility more urgent to be positive

about our lifestyles and nurture and protect young gays >> a.i.d.s. makes your responsibility more urgent to be positive about our lifestyles and nurture and protect those who look up to us for help, that they, too, can lead a life uninhibited by fear and guilt and shame. as i have come a long way to be here, tonight. >> this is one of the leading people in hollywood, who everyone in the community knew about, but no one had ever publicly acknowledged that fact which is become sort of like oh, yeah, get over it. that was not the case. not in those days. >> it was one thing to go to a star-studded banquet. it was another thing to work with people with a.i.d.s.

onset. >> for many in hollywood with the virus, it's a secret, when they feel they have to keep or risk losing their career. >> i have to remain anonymous because they do not want to be subjected to discrimination that is out there, so i don't tell people who i am or that i am hiv-positive. >> we got calls from a number of different actors who had been diagnosed with a.i.d.s. and who were terrified that they would never work again. a lot of times, actors who were well known died of a.i.d.s. . their obituaries said they died of something else. >> i knew in 1985 that i was hiv-positive, but i never told anyone and i had such fear, i was so governed by fear that this was going to get out in my

life. >> my condition is something often found in young men in the prime of their lives. >> i don't feel that it impacted my work, but now that i was in the public eye, you did not want that out. >> people with a.i.d.s. describe how hollywood fear of the virus is forcing them into the shadows. >> it was really about discrimination. discrimination about people who were suffering from hiv and a.i.d.s. , but were healthy enough to work and in fact, who were working all the time around them. my husband was brad davis and he was an actor. he was working but the truth was that by that point, he was

actually hiv-positive. in l.a., if someone was even rumored, this was something that could lose you a career. so, he suffered a lot, alone. just before brad died, he said he felt it was important to come forward and tell the truth about how he died. >> whatever the rules are today in hollywood, they must be changed so that people like brad can come forward before they die. >> i think that was the thing that triggered mr. diller. when he discovered people who had a.i.d.s. could not get a job, that angered him. he went to a friend of his who was ceo of mca university.

he said, we've got to do something about this. >> hollywood supports has been established by leading figures in the entertainment industry and is using the services in providing education, to counter a.i.d.s. phobia and homophobia. >> hollywood supports sent a message not just a hollywood, but the rest of the business world that this is the new standard of how you are going to treat people. we may not have our rights guaranteed in the constitution or by law, but we are going to give it to you at the corporate level. >> there is a quilt being unfolded in our meadow, dedicated to all the people that have died of a.i.d.s. >> television has a tremendous power to open people's minds, and to give them some empathy toward people they might not know.

>> i can barely remember half the things i want to pay. >> there had been this history of movies taking on these themes . they were smaller, independent movies, playing mostly to art-house movie audiences. we admire those movies very much, but the challenge came to make the movie that you could show at the mall cinema, on a saturday night, so why don't we try to reach the biggest audience possible? >> tom hanks, at that point, was certainly the biggest movie star in the world and for the tens of millions of people who saw that movie, even though it was a fictional story, and helped people to understand. tom hanks won the best actor oscar for philadelphia. >> i know in my work, in this

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we had outgrown our building and that really was only one of the size we needed. it was a record studio on vine, two blocks south of sunset. it was perfect for us, but we did not have the money for a building. so, i called up mr. geffen and after a few pleasantries, he said all right, what do you want? i said, $1 million. he gave it to me, and we got the building. >> when they bought that building in the early '90s, almost everybody who got a died. those first few years were really, really bleak. we had no effective treatments. so, what was needed in that era was this place where they could come and if they wanted to hang out all day, they could, a

place of community, and a place where they could get all the services they need in our community services. >> they bought that huge building to be a one-stop shop for all sorts of services and it was. then, they became tension between the one-stop shop idea and the proximity idea. >> people of color were coming to us from neighborhoods all over los angeles county. it was not convenient for them, so there were criticisms. what's the role of organizations that are founded by white folks, but are now organizations that serve a majority of people of color? >> at that time, certainly. >> the progress is working

toward making this community a viable one and that must be recognized. thank you very much. >> the minority a.i.d.s. projects had the same purpose, but our agency did not have the prestige that a pla had, so it didn't go, to the ancestors, sometime, to pull it together. it was a show, featuring the leaders of the time, so we were just winging it.

we were adding our flavor to it. >> she was a black, lesbian woman with a voice. she was running a hot club in town, she had access to an audience. our issue is trying to get to certain audiences. >> i was asked to be on the board of directors. he called me, and he said, nobody else has what you have to bring to the table. we had a talk and i told him that i would do it, as long as it would bring some resources to a minority community, so i went to the board. the benefit for me was to be on the board and how things operated from the inside out. >> when she joined the board, she made an impact, eventually

leading to bringing more people of color on the board, and diversifying the staff at all levels. >> quite honestly, one of the challenges was money. that came from the white man, so we had to make sure that our donors understood what we were doing and why. it wasn't to save just your boyfriend or you, it was to save others. >> the money you have raised is $3,914,000. >> the academy that existed at the time was many supporters were unimaginably, were rich folks, and so it was interesting, to spend time in south-central los angeles in the daytime and then go to an event at david geffen's house.

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i'm not even sure he knows how to tell a. -- spell a.i.d.s. >> most preferred to believe that a.i.d.s. is not our problem, but the truth is, it's everybody's problem. we don't have a person to waste in our country and viruses do not discriminate. >> i have friends who have died of a -- of a.i.d.s. and that's why i'm running for president. i feel your pain. >> when clinton became president, things started to change. there was more talk in government about the issues. >> every person living with a.i.d.s. deserves not only our compassion, but our respect. >> we are part of the american family. we are not a special interest group. we are men and women, old and young, we are americans, and we want an end to this epidemic. >> i don't feel like i'm dying.

if anybody stands a chance of surviving was in, i think i do. maybe i am overly optimistic, but i would rather be hopeful in the face of hopelessness and continue to believe in my life. >> the next big breakthrough on drugs came through 1995, with a.c.e. inhibitors. the doctor who became time magazines man of the year, and others, showed that using three drugs together from the get go, the viral node when undetectable. >> it has been a long, tiring, and often uphill struggle, and i have to tell you, we have made progress. >> i was at the international conference on a.i.d.s. in vancouver that summer, where it was announced that they had

found the cocktail treatment, with a combination of antiretrovirals and pro-a.c.e. inhibitors were actually helping people live. >> i look upon this as another step in the direction of trying to completely suppress or get rid of the virus. >> it was the most amazing thing and i wept for joy, that it was going to change now. >> in 1996, i got very sick. my doctors thought that i was not going to survive. i was in intensive care with less than 24 hours to live. a.c.e. inhibitors were discovered but not widely distributed. all the calls went out and i was able to take my meds. i

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hiv a.i.d.s. from a transfusion. >> i became known as a.i.d.s. boy. >> it would've been easier for his family to stay quiet and fight in private, but ryan showed the courage and strength that so many hiv-positive activists have shown over the years and because he did, 1990, the year ryan passed away, congress can together and introduced the comprehensive a.i.d.s. resources emergency act, the care act, which was later named after ryan. it provides life-saving medical services to more than half 1 million americans every year, in every corner of the country. let me be clear, it's a battle that is far from over and it is a battle that all of us need to do our part to join. what we can do is keep fighting, each and every day, until we eliminate this disease . with that, i sign this bill. from a program

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there are interesting case studies of people who have been cured of hiv. however, the idea of having medicines that will be globally available to cure people who have hiv is a bit of a pipe dream. fortunately, this evolution of therapy has been fine tuned to be compact. we have a single pill regimen, and people with hiv would rather live without it, of course, but the point is that they can live with it. it's a great blessing. but, i really want to make sure we do not forget that the treatments we have today came on the backs of the lives of tens of thousands of people before them. >> the core of a bracing -- embracing marriage equality is

a legacy of losing your partner in life to a.i.d.s., and we all knew that there's no way we are ever going to be equal if our relationships are not seen as equal. >> in one of the most momentous civil rights decisions in its history, the supreme court of united states found that lgbtq americans have constitutional rights to marriage. >> i believe marriage equality is the phoenix that grew from the ashes of hiv. no question about it. >> there are a lot of things that, as a result of the a.i.d.s. pandemic, then gratefully exist today. but i'm not sure there's one of them that i wouldn't trade for getting all my friends back. chris died in november of 1989.

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that we are protecting ourselves from anything that could possibly happen. >> it's safe. >> that blew my mind, just thinking, where we came from, to where we are at. >> in this era of p.r.e.p., it changed so much that nobody remembers. folks that take p.r.e.p., they take it to prevent a disease, but they don't realize what it's actually preventing. they were not around, during this time. they can't picture a.i.d.s. it's lost somewhere. then, you have folks that do remember. i still cry. i still cry. i remember. funerals and memorial servic

>> they are the angels of our community because we sang at the many funerals and memorial services, for people throughout the packet -- throughout the pandemic. ♪ ♪ >> probably 150 of this course died of a.i.d.s. in the a.i.d.s. years. ♪♪ >> over 30,000 people turned out to walk the six miles through los angeles, the first a.i.d.s. walk in the world started here in los angeles in 1985 did the fight for a cure is more urgent than ever. >> for me, it started honoring

the people who died. i have learned lessons that have changed my life and been a blessing. ♪ ♪ ♪ worth the price - in the past four decades an estimated 36 million people ♪♪ >> in the past four decades, an estimated 36 million people have died of a.i.d.s. related illness is paid today, as we look back on the past four years, we must raise a red ribbon to remember how far we've come. we are gathered today with support in our hearts, and for the future, as we finish the fight to end the a.i.d.s.

epidemic and support all people who have hiv. >> i am so grateful to be alive and to have survived all of that. you know, none of us have any guarantees about being here, tamara. all any of us have is right now, and in this moment, i feel alive. ♪ we must make this fight has to continue >> the generation that went before never gave up. this fight has to continue. there is so much more work to be done. i want to be part of that. i still want to bring an end to this. ♪ ♪ >> this is our time, this is our deciding moment. together, we

will win the day. >> there are still people suffering with a and those still contracting a.i.d.s., but we are the closest we have ever been, for that to happen, in our lifetime. all we have to do is fight, survive, stay in the moment, and as martin luther king said, i might not be here to witness it, but i feel that we will get to the mountaintop. ♪ ♪ (gentle upbeat music)

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