Essay On Court Room

Court Rooms are a place where everything can be changed in the matter of seconds. In my experience, court rooms are always packed with people who have no idea what really happened. In the movie, “And the Band Played On,” the court room they perceived was a lot like one I am familiar with. The room was packed, there was a lot of yelling, and not much of any kind of compromise was made. One of the actors says that the only reason the people were there was for money. That is something very familiar to me since my divorced parents are always fighting over money. Court is never something people want to experience and it is even worse when things do go the way you planned. In this particular scene from the movie, the doctors are uncomfortable and the people are afraid. The doctors noticed a trend in the disease, coming from the bath houses, and wanted …show more content…
The first case was in 1981. For three years, the gay community was targeted for their actions. Their community was threatened to be torn apart based of an assumption of AIDS being sexually transmitted. For these gay men, the most important thing was to be accepted. They didn’t care if they died from a disease if it meant they died being themselves. Until there was actual proof of this disease being sexually transmitted, all the gay men wanted was to continue to live in their accepted community. The court room scene shows the panic in the gay men as they were being targeted for a theory. Court can be a very stressful environment, especially when an entire community is being threatened. The gay men wanted to be left in peace, while the doctors wanted to save everyone. It isn’t until the disease is conformed to be sexually transmitted that the gay men understand the doctor’s intentions of closing the bath houses. The back and forth between the doctors and the gay men shows panic in both parties, and that being displayed in court just enables the anger