it.How does this apply to the play?Stonewall Inn was in 1969 in New York City. Peter and Heidi are in Chicago around the same time. Coincidence? I think not.The homosexuals before this insolence had to put up with laws banning their choice of lie style in most of the fifty states. This was the last straw. This occurrence was simple because the police thought that the gays were freaks or not willing to put up a fight. A lot of the gays around the country starting demanding equal time and consideration after this. This is were most, men mainly, found the courage to speak up and say that they were homosexual. This could be used for inspiration for the scene between Peter and Heidi when he tells her he is gay. There was a lot more at stake at the time ten a friendship. His life and career was too. At the time, gays were thought to be child molesters. A gay pediatrician?"A Brief History of AIDS" About.Com2000http://aids.about.com/health/aids/library/weekly/aa060799.htm?iam=dp&terms=History+Of+The+Aids+VirusIn July 1981, the New York Times reported an outbreak of a rare form of cancer among gay men in New York and California, first referred to as the "gay cancer" but medically know as Kaposi Sarcoma. About the same time, emergency rooms in New York City began to see a rash of seemingly healthy young men presenting with fevers, flu like symptoms, and pneumonia called Pneumocystis. About a year later, the CDC (Centers for Disease Control) link the illness to blood and coins the term AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome). In that first year over 1600 cases are diagnosed with close to 700 deaths.As the number of deaths soared, medical experts scrambled to find a cause and more importantly a cure. In 1984, Institut Pasteur of France discovered what they called the HIV virus, but it wasn't until a year later a US scientist, Dr. Robert Gallo confirmed that HIV was the cause of AIDS. Following this discovery, the first test for HIV...
