Colon: It's "Night Over America," and this is J.C. Colon on the Liberty Network.

And our topic tonight, we're talking about how some interest groups in some states are working very hard to decriminalize HIV contracted through sexual contact.

These laws were written in the 1980s, to protect us from an explosive viral danger.

And those folks who are working to abolish them are working their agendas.

They want the government to step back, here.

Now, is there more to this than meets the eye?

We're gonna talk through the realities tonight.

We're endeavoring, still, to fulfill the great experiment that is America, to make sure that we are living up to these truths that support everyone's inalienable rights.

We're the ones who are able to reinterpret them for an audience who wouldn't otherwise be willing to listen to that conversation.

It all comes down to stigma and moral prejudice against three three lettered words -- s-e-x, HIV, g-a-y.

Egan: I'm certainly aware of the stigmatization and discrimination against people that are gay, that are HIV-positive, people of color within our culture, those divides.

But I did not know that these laws were still on the books.

Given where medical science is, and that, you know, these individuals that have HIV, if they're on their meds, are not transmittable.

I did all the interviews that Robbie then created the play out of, so I know these individuals that the story is based on very well.

People need to hear the stories.

It's hard to really, like, believe that these things actually happen in real life, that they're based on truth.

Like, the things that these three have experienced is not human.

And I don't know that there is any amount of reparations that could be given back to them that would even be worth the pain that they've gone through, and the work that they've gone through.

They need to be given all of the flowers.

[ Applause ] I am here to say that who you are is not justification for entering into questionable sexual relations.

Man: We are saying is that we are stuck within an endless continuum of discriminatory, ignorant attitudes and laws.

Belber: I do believe that we do have a little cultural window with which we can sway a couple of minds.

You get a guy -- an old-school guy like Brian Cox, grew up in a different time, different era.

His embrace of an issue like this, it's pretty powerful.

There's no reason why we can't remind ourselves to correct something that is outdated.

Sign whatever petition it is.

Get your local representatives to dig in, and do the work.

Do you know the police actually broke into my apartment.

They made copies of my personal documents, trying to buy anything related to my HIV status -- lab reports, medications, letters, even Web browsing.

I'm arrested in the courthouse, in front of all of my colleagues and friends.

Johnson: If you can do anything that will alleviate the pressure of the fear that they have built up just from the unknown, you've done a great work.

We are your sons and daughters, mothers and fathers, co-workers and neighbors, whose main desire is to lead a blessed life.

And while I'm driving, I'm listening to the radio, and I pray to God to give me a sign if I'm on the right path of living my truth.

And the next song that comes on the radio, Diana Ross -- ♪ I'm coming out ♪ And I'm like, "Oh, my God, thank you."

I'm gonna be out and proud.

Colon: "Night Over America" is about listening and being persuaded by the common-sense truth of real stories.

We need to listen.

As my adopted son, Derek, would say, these other truths.

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