2 chapters across the catalog
The segment details the 1988 protests by ACT UP and playwright Larry Kramer's open letter calling Dr. Fauci an "incompetent idiot." It also covers the cultural influence of the era, claiming that the rapper Old Dirty Bastard was pressured to record a PSA because of the lyrics in "Shimmy Shimmy Ya."
A 1993 clip features Larry Kramer expressing frustration with the lack of an "AIDS Czar" under the Clinton administration. The hosts discuss the marginalization of masculine voices within the gay community and the broader societal "attack on the patriarch." They argue that the original political power of gay activists has been co-opted by newer movements.
