ontact HIV (virus that can lead to AIDS) through sharing of bodily fluids.
             Another misconception about AIDS, is the common assumption that AIDS equals homosexuality, and they portray this issue in the movie quite strongly. The director also questions popular opinion by looking at this point from another angle. The movie shows how prejudiced peoples opinions can be when coming to this subject. The defence continuously points out that Mr. Beckett may have contacted the virus while in a gay pornographic theater, but a female AIDS sufferer (Mrs. Benedict, who contacted AIDS through a blood transfusion), who was cross-examined earlier in the film, had the sympathy of the Senior partners in the firm who fired Beckett, because she had contracted the virus through 'no fault of her own.' They made the assumption that Beckett contacted the illness through 'gay activities' and that 'his lifestyle, his reckless behavior has cut short his life.'
             There is also an effort to affront misconceptions about homosexuals. It deals with the popular image of homosexuals
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