Judy Kubrak

**Judy Kubrak** is the nurse at Roosevelt Hospital and an HIV/AIDS activist member of ACT UP. She befriends two patients, Pray Tell and Blanca Evangelista, after each received their positive diagnoses, often checking on their conditions and providing her personal aid in their fight to survive; she also brings them into the world of activism.

## Biography

### Early Life

Judy Kubrak studied medicine, graduated, and is employed at Roosevelt Hospital as a nursing physician, working primarily on the AIDS-ward, where she regularly monitored them until their passing moments. She also joined the activist organization ACT UP and became romantically involved with a woman named Wanda.

### First Cabaret

*to be added* Judy is a nurse who treats HIV-positive people and an activist, member of ACT UP. She works at the Roosevelt Hospital and is first seen treating Pray Tell's HIV-positive long-time boyfriend Costas Perez, who by then was in an advanced stage of the disease.

### Meeting and Protest

*to be added* In the second season, Judy becomes an ally to the ballroom community and is revealed to be a lesbian. Alongside Pray Tell, she organizes cabarets to cheer up the HIV patients and alleviate their suffering.

### Funeral Arrangements

Judy was approached by Blanca Evangelista and Elektra Wintour to aid in the release of Candy Ferocity's body from the morgue. At the hospital, they spoke with Stanley about signing over Candy to Blanca and Elektra, casting any punishments onto her if they were caught; much to his reclutance, she was able to give them Candy for a proper funeral.

She and Wanda attended the funeral to mourn. While there, she spoke with Blanca about Pray Tell's changed mood on taking AZT.

After the funeral, she was approached by Pray Tell, the man seeking AZT to continue his fight to live longer with his ballroom siblings.

### Third Cabaret

After Pray Tell was rushed to Roosevelt Hospital, Judy and Blanca Evangelista stood by his bed as the doctor informed him that he was expecting ill-effects from AZT that caused his platelets to decrease. She regularly monitored his condition while aiding in the planning of the upcoming annual AIDS cabaret.

### Condom Demonstration

*To be added She moves from the HIV/AIDS ward to the maternity ward, saying she is tired of being around death and is brought joy by all the new life.*

## Relationships

### Romances

* **Wanda**: Judy recurringly mentions having a relationship with a woman and a fellow activist in the ACT UP organization.

### Friends

* **Costas Perez**: While employed at Roosevelt Hospital, Judy moditored and cared for Perez until his dying breath.
* **Pray Tell**: During his final visits to Costas Perez at Roosevelt Hospital, Pray, though initially nasty and emotional, struck an acquaintance with the ward nurse Judy. The two construct a cabaret for the HIV/AIDS patients that rested in the wing, with help from Blanca.
* **Blanca Evangelista**: Judy, initially meeting through Pray Tell, regularly interacted with Blanca and expressed care over her health as well as Pray's. She also helped in monitoring her HIV-status, providing any news or medication in relation to the medical field's progression on a cure or method of maintaining longevity. Whenever unable to access Pray Tell, she seeks aid from Blanca to convey support in his health management.

## Gallery

* Promotionals
* Screenshots

## Quotes

“*Listen, you're gay, I'm gay; we're all dancing under the same fucking rainbow.*”
—Judy Kubrak to Stanley[src]

## Appearances

 *Absent*
 "Mother's Day":
 *Absent*

 **Appears**
 "Something Borrowed, Something Blue":

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 2.01 *Acting Up*
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 1.06 *Love is the Message*
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 2.04 *What Would Candy Do?*
4. ↑ 2.06 *Love's in Need of Love Today*