Media personalities started to come forward, and the press and public joined the activists in pressuring our government to act. Not only did these activists get unprecedented funding for education, research, treatment, prevention, but they were able to have control over that funding and they were able to be a feared political force that will insure that funding doesn't go away. This is from a group that is a minority that faces great injustices and prejudices, even as I write this. They were not liked, and it wasn't their intent to be liked. When it is you who are dying and those around you who are dying, it is not your prime concern to be liked, but to stop the carnage and stop the apathy that lets it continue.
Tension creates a crisis that makes apathy difficult to cling to.
You don't have to be dying to be outraged enough to protest injustice. Sometimes injustice doesn't lead to a funeral, but merely unequal treatment under the law and a loss of dignity. As citizens, we are born with unalienable civil and human rights and when those rights are infringed, we must fight for them back. Tension can be created by protesting in public, outside Vital Statistics Departments, in front of convention halls where supporters of the sealed records systems are meeting, next to patriotic monuments, in town squares, and in front of legislative statehouses. I WILL be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice.