e him fired. He chooses to go to court and fight his ex-partners, exposing his personal life to the whole world this time. His lawyer is none other than a homophobic black personal injury lawyer, Joe Miller, played by Denzel Washington. The action takes place in the early 1990s, five years away from the point where even the homosexuals thought about AIDS to have been the "cancer" or "plague" of the homosexuals and had no idea how one might get it or about the ways it was transmitted.
             Most of the key moments related to the relevance of the topic addressing the attitudes of the American public towards the homosexual minority 1990s and the link between the AIDS infected people and those attitudes are played in the courtroom. The two lawyers, Beckett and Miller, Beckett's ex-law firm partners, the judge, the jury, the public made of family, friends, Beckett's life partner, played by Antonio Banderas, are exponents of the different voices in the American society as a whole expressing an attitude toward the issue of homosexuality at that time.
             The partners sit in the courtroom, aligned at the same table, like illustrations of the conservative side of society that thought it was compelled to protect the rest of the citizens from the evil of homosexuality. They used the new infection that was spreading among this minority as a proof of their beliefs and a reassurance of their God given role to fight against all even, homosexuals included.
             The first reaction of the general public when being confronted with the presence of a homosexual infected with AIDS was to isolate him, to take shelter from the sudden danger. The reaction of the readers in the public library when they hear that Beckett was looking for materials related to AIDS was to leave the room since he did not indicate any sign of doing it himself. The lack of information was taking its tall, as always. A few years ago, not even homosexuals knew ...