In the context of a very severe device in society where wearing a mask or not wearing a mask has become a political statement of where you are in your ideology.

It's quite different than what we went through with HIV, where we had activists who were confrontative.

They were theatrical.

They were iconoclastic.

What they were trying to say was very important, and they wanted to gain our attention, my attention.

When I listened to them, which is one of the best things I've done, it became clear that what they were saying made absolutely good sense.

Jamie Holland?

All right, that's 15 minutes.

You feeling all right?

-Any immediate symptoms?

-No.

-All right, you're good to go.

Stay safe.

-The end result was a very positive thing.

We embraced the community.

The community was value-added.

They made contributions, and the AIDS effort was all better off.

As a result-- Anthony Fauci, you are a murderer.

[alarm beeping] You're responsible for supervising all government-funded AIDS treatment research programs.

In the name of right, you make decisions that cost the lives of others.

[kisses hand] I call that murder.

The gay community has for five years told the NIH which drugs to test because we know and hear first what's working on some of us somewhere.

We tell you what the good drugs are.

You don't test them.

What tragic pomposity.

There are more AIDS victims dead because you didn't test drugs on them than because you did.

Who besides yourself are you covering for, Tony?

You may be the best that will be given us.

The cries of genocide from this Cassandra will continue to remain unheard.

Our noble but enfeebled community of the weak, the dying, and the dead will continue to grow until we are diminished."

This is who they think I am, Dan.

Some bigoted Republican suit who sits around twiddling his thumbs.

We're trying to help them, for Christ's sake.

Here they come marching.

Who wrote this?

Larry Kramer.

Ah, of course.

Two full pages in the San Francisco Examiner, and now, storm the NIH.

It's just their usual theatrics.

Ignore them.

Business as usual, and they'll go away.

They'll thank you one day, Tony.

[brushing teeth] [exhales] Hey.

Patrick?

Easy tea.

You ready?

Think so.

Don't let me down.

[kisses forehead] [music] [phone ringing] -Yes.

-Hi, hi.

May I speak with Peter, please?

Peter, phone.

Thanks, Maxine.

-Hello.

-Peter, it's Tony.

Please don't do this.

I'm a little busy right now, Tony.

Let's just talk.

Just come to my office.

I'm hanging up now, Tony.

Hey, hey, you're wasting your time.

-Tony-- -This is useless theater.

Come to my office.

-Bring Mark, or Larry, or whoever.

-You want this to stop?

Test new drugs.

Get us involved in the ACTG.

You need us on those committees.

Stop closing them off.

Nothing personal, I think that you may be naive in understanding how you can get things done.

In Washington, you do not get many shots, Peter.

-You get one shot.

-Bullshit.

Bullshit, Tony.

You have power.

You are a politician as much as you are a scientist.

I am not a politician.

My decisions are all scientific decisions.

My only concern is the medicine.

Which is why we're knocking down your door.

See you, Tony.

Hey, just for you, I might get myself arrested.

Should've told him to fuck off.

Maxine, he's not a bad guy.

Oh, shit.

-[chuckles] -Sorry, sorry.

-[chuckles] -Hey, youe good?

-I didn't see you there.

-All right, everyone, we are heading out in 15 minutes.

Grab your shit.

Shit behind you.

Hey, how's Patrick?

He's fine.

He's talking to Fauci?

Yes, one last problem.

Do you think he'll come out to meet us?

Hopefully we'll get in.

[music] Ready, Jamie?

Just one sec.

Rolling.

[airhorn blows] Basically what we're doing is blasting the horns every 12 minutes to remind people that statistically right now, every 12 minutes someone in America is dying from AIDS.

This particular action is a result of about a year's work on trying to get the National Institutes of Health to restructure, to actually do what the now-President has said, to put AIDS research on a wartime footing.

We think it can be done, and we think if we make enough noise, and if we get the message out clearly to the media, 10 years of work, $1 billion, one drug, and it doesn't work very well.

That's our message today.

[chanting] ♪ Every 12 minutes someone dies ♪ ♪ [?]

♪ ♪ The whole world is watching.

♪ [airhorn blows] Coat.

Everyone is in position?

How do I look?

Look.

Oh.

-Good?

-Good.

Good?

Let's go.

[chanting] ♪ We charge you with genocide.

♪ ♪ NIH, you can't hide.

♪ [music] Hello.

[music] [?]

[music] [protesters chanting] [airhorn blows] [door knock] Hello.

[music] Maxine.

[music] [phone ringing] -Yes.

-Dr.

Fauci, it's Maxine Wilson.

We demand that you form a women's committee dedicated to researching drugs for women with AIDS.

-The current list of [?

]- -How did you get this-- -infections in the CDC, -definition of AIDS is not [?]

cancer-- -Do not call this number again.

I'm calling security.

You leave the building, or you will be arrested.

Marge, get me security on the line.

Your line, not mine.

We've just had reports that a building has been taken.

We're here today because it's 10 years, a billion dollars, one draw.

Sexism [?].

Anthony Fauci, I piss on you.

Where are we with the DDI and DDC trials?

We're optimistic about the potential pairing of adenosine with AZT, but as expected, patients continue to develop rapid resistance.

If we combine them with the protease inhibitors.

Well, we can't.

-The FDA is dragging their heels to-- -[laughs] -oh my God.

-Fuck the NIH.

Where is your badge number?

Where is your badge?

Calm down.

-Calm down, calm down.

-All right, you can let him go once he's outside.

-No, can't do, Dr.

Fauci.

-Hey, gentlemen, please.

I can vouch for him.

What did I say, Tony?

Come on.

Hey, hey, hey, hey.

♪ NIH, you can't hide, ♪ ♪ we charge you with genocide.

♪ [chanting] Dr.

Fauci, wait.

Wait, Dr.

Fauci.

[chanting] ♪ The whole world is watching.

♪ [chanting] [background chatter] There you go.

Okay.

[silence] Okay.

Good?

One sec.

[pause] Jamie.

[silence] Can we--?

I'm getting tired.

Okay.

Do you want to take a break?

Even if he watches it, -he's never going to change his mind.

-Hey, hey, hey, this is good.

It's a great idea.

I don't even know if you'll see him, and what's the fucking point?

Patrick.

Hey.

[pause] I can't do anything.

[pause] That not true.

[silence] You can show him a life worth saving, a beautiful, brilliant, unbreakable life that can't be ignored.

[pause] I can record it.

[silence] I will make you immortal.

[?]

do because I have to be involved from a scientific policy standpoint, that's it's been in many respects-- [pause]