Gaetan Dugas was openly gay. In early 1980s he contracted what was termed “gay cancer”. He provided blood samples and 72 names of his former sex partners. Dugas was demonized for his promiscuity and wrongfully identified as patient zero.
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If you are a straight person reading this review, it would be unlikely that you would know who or what Patient Zero means. The opposite can be said for any gay person, who is totally aware of the significance of Patient Zero. Patient Zero is thought to be the man (an Air Canada flight steward) who brought A.I.Ds to North America.
While Laurie Lynd’s entertaining and informative documentary educates both sexual orientations on Patent Zero, the film serves more as an account of the History of A.I.D.s.
This is the documentary about the origins of the A.I.DS epidemic and the story of Gaetan…
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