The disease permeates all aspects of life. No one is immune from disease and the destruction it brings. Broken families, destroyed communities and desperate societies. AIDS has put a strain on today's society and everyone is affected. Much of the literature written about AIDS has attempted to capture the disease and give it some form of meaning. Where it comes from, how it is contracted and the lifestyle of an AIDS victim is many times addressed in various novels and books. Many of the authors who write about AIDS write with homosexual themes. Homosexuality is prevalent in many books about AIDS and the question is: why? According to Les Wright, many books with gay characters are written to counter many of the assumptions made about AIDS and homosexuality. The gay community is under attack, invaded both by the HIV virus and by the pathognomic counter-contagion of the social diseases of prejudice and hatred. In many narratives, gay men respond with fantasies of military counterattack. The historically impotent and polluted homosexual turns the tables, identifying traditional heterosexuals as pathonomically polluted and declaring them evil. The homosexual claims the status of victim by virtue of the fascism of heterosexual society and projects his moral struggle in political terms. The outsider becomes a hero; the disease is made seemingly value-neutral. Fire is fought with fire and paranoia is fought with paranoia (Wright, 55-57). In a particular work that deals with the theme of AIDS and homosexuality, the writer shows characters who are different in background but very similar in nature. The play Angels in America, A Gay Fantasia on National Themes, written by Tony Kushner, is a story of gay men dealing with social values. In dealing with these values they also encounter the problem of AIDS and how it affects their lives and the lives of those around them. There is a problem with the character associating AIDS and its possible connection with homosexuality. Featuring the main characters, Roy Cohn, Joe Pitt, Louis Ironson, Prior Walter, and Harper Pitt, the reader visits the lives of these characters and learns how each person is affected by homosexuality and AIDS. In the novel The Plague, by Albert Camus, the main character, Doctor Rieux, talks about the plague with a colleague. "Of course, he said to Rieux, you know what it is... I saw cases in Paris twenty years ago.
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