Holding the Man

(Negative, thank God.) 534 00:42:51,080 --> 00:42:52,959 You weren't worried, were you? 535 00:42:52,960 --> 00:42:55,960 Nah. Can you imagine being told you've got it? 536 00:42:59,840 --> 00:43:01,439 Well, we don't. 537 00:43:01,440 --> 00:43:03,639 You want to go grab some lunch after this? 538 00:43:03,640 --> 00:43:06,079 Some of us have real jobs. 539 00:43:06,080 --> 00:43:09,080 MAN: Tim, 2117? 540 00:43:12,320 --> 00:43:15,320 Look at us. We're fast-lane gays. 541 00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:41,400 Tim? 542 00:43:45,920 --> 00:43:47,599 JOHN: What is it? 543 00:43:47,600 --> 00:43:50,600 Um... he said I'm positive, John. 544 00:43:55,960 --> 00:43:58,960 But I'm negative. 545 00:44:00,440 --> 00:44:02,799 I should... I'll explain. 546 00:44:02,800 --> 00:44:05,800 The system here is that if your result is negative, 547 00:44:06,840 --> 00:44:08,479 you see a counsellor, 548 00:44:08,480 --> 00:44:11,480 and if you're positive, you see a doctor, like me. 549 00:44:11,680 --> 00:44:14,680 John, the clerk put your file in the wrong pigeonhole, 550 00:44:16,240 --> 00:44:18,599 and the counsellor gave you the result 551 00:44:18,600 --> 00:44:21,600 without checking the file. 552 00:44:21,960 --> 00:44:23,519 I'm sorry. 553 00:44:23,520 --> 00:44:25,599 You've been given the wrong result. 554 00:44:25,600 --> 00:44:28,199 You're positive. You both are. 555 00:44:28,200 --> 00:44:30,839 I'd like to take some blood from you both 556 00:44:30,840 --> 00:44:32,399 to do a cell count. 557 00:44:32,400 --> 00:44:35,400 I'm terribly... I'm... truly so sorry. 558 00:44:36,560 --> 00:44:39,560 This should not happen. I... 559 00:44:42,160 --> 00:44:44,079 Can you not stretch my T- shirt? 560 00:44:44,080 --> 00:44:47,080 I'm not! 561 00:44:48,440 --> 00:44:51,440 Do you think I infected you? 562 00:44:53,560 --> 00:44:56,560 You, with your high T8 counts. 563 00:44:57,920 --> 00:44:59,479 You're recently infected, 564 00:44:59,480 --> 00:45:02,480 that's what the doctor was saying. 565 00:45:03,840 --> 00:45:06,840 We didn't know this was lurking. 566 00:45:08,760 --> 00:45:11,760 It didn't have a name. 567 00:45:12,280 --> 00:45:15,280 It's not as though... 568 00:45:16,080 --> 00:45:19,080 I mean, I've hardly been with... 569 00:45:21,080 --> 00:45:22,999 I got something. 570 00:45:23,000 --> 00:45:24,999 (Kisses) 571 00:45:25,000 --> 00:45:26,799 I couldn't decide between 572 00:45:26,800 --> 00:45:29,159 'ribbed for her pleasure' or... 573 00:45:29,160 --> 00:45:30,719 We're not gonna fuck, Tim. 574 00:45:30,720 --> 00:45:33,720 That's how we got into this mess in the first place. 575 00:45:33,800 --> 00:45:36,800 MAN: Most people have only seen these things in a book 576 00:45:38,080 --> 00:45:40,999 or something like that. 577 00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:44,000 The other night on the stairs, I saw one for real. 578 00:45:45,760 --> 00:45:47,519 In the Congo. 579 00:45:47,520 --> 00:45:50,520 The leopard was going to have a baby. 580 00:45:51,320 --> 00:45:54,320 WOMAN: Richard had been diagnosed with toxoplasmosis, 581 00:45:56,280 --> 00:45:59,280 a disease caused by a parasite found in cat faeces. 582 00:46:00,560 --> 00:46:03,560 Are you telling me I ate cat poo? 583 00:46:03,840 --> 00:46:06,679 Probably as a kid playing in a sandpit. 584 00:46:06,680 --> 00:46:08,959 (Kisses) We all did, darling. 585 00:46:08,960 --> 00:46:11,960 We mistook it for a consequence-free environment. 586 00:46:17,360 --> 00:46:20,359 We had hoped to interview Richard again, 587 00:46:20,360 --> 00:46:23,199 but as he prepared to welcome in 1986, 588 00:46:23,200 --> 00:46:25,119 Richard succumbed to dementia 589 00:46:25,120 --> 00:46:28,120 and a litany ofAIDS-related illnesses. 590 00:46:29,760 --> 00:46:32,760 Just down the road from here, at St Vincent's. 591 00:46:37,680 --> 00:46:40,439 TIM: Ifthere were thousands of schoolkids dropping dead, 592 00:46:40,440 --> 00:46:41,999 they'd do something about it. 593 00:46:42,000 --> 00:46:44,359 God help you if you're a poofter, 594 00:46:44,360 --> 00:46:46,439 or a junkie, or a prostitute! 595 00:46:46,440 --> 00:46:48,999 We're not like those people in the play. 596 00:46:49,000 --> 00:46:52,000 It's not gonna get us. 597 00:46:53,920 --> 00:46:56,920 We're lucky. We're the second wave. 598 00:46:58,840 --> 00:47:01,840 They're gonna cure it. 599 00:47:02,040 --> 00:47:04,759 JOHN: Are you ready? TIM: Not really. 600 00:47:04,760 --> 00:47:07,760 Let's do it. 601 00:47:30,160 --> 00:47:31,999 Campus Gays. Our bodies, our rights. 602 00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:35,000 Thank you. 603 00:47:41,840 --> 00:47:43,119 That was great. 604 00:47:43,120 --> 00:47:44,639 Yeah? You think that was good? 605 00:47:44,640 --> 00:47:45,919 Mm-hm. 606