Eventually, I won the right to attend school, but the prejudice was still there.
The school I was going to said they had no guidelines for a person with AIDS.
Mayor Koch, of New York, was the first public figure to give me support.
People would get up and leave so they would not have to sit anywhere near me.
I was labeled a troublemaker, my mom an unfit mother, and I was not welcome anywhere.
Entertainers, athletes, and stars started giving me support.