“Countless families were broken apart and ruined by AIDS, leaving many AIDS orphans. They had no one to turn to.”

“Babylon,
Learned and wise, hath perished utterly,
Nor leaves her speech one word to aid the sigh
That would lament her.”

“When God gives you AIDS — and God does give you AIDS — make lemon-AIDS!”

“The principle of the family was mutual aid; but the principle of society is competition, the struggle for existence, the elimination of the weak and the survival of the strong.”

“[holds up an egg] This is AIDS. AIDS is as real as an egg.”

“For what are we born if not to aid one another?”

“Turn up your hearing aid 'Grandpa', because I'm only going to say this once!”

“Aid the dawning, tongue and pen;
Aid it, hopes of honest men!”

“From Stonewall to the first AIDS alert was only twelve short years. In the Eighties and early Nineties, displaced anxiety over the horror of AIDS turned gay activists into raging nihilists and monomaniacs, who dishonestly blamed the disease on the government and trampled on the rights of the gay majority, and whose errors of judgement materially aided the rise and consolidation of the far right. AIDS did not appear out of nowhere. It was a direct result of the sexual revolution, which my generation unleashed with the best intentions, but whose worst effects were to be suffered primarily by gay men.”

“The policy of American government is to leave its citizens free, neither restraining them nor aiding them in their pursuits.”