Review: ‘Killing Patient Zero’
Killing Patient Zero (Canada, 98 min.) Dir. Laurie Lynd Programme: Special Presentations (World Premiere) βPeople who are young do not understand in any real way, even if they know the fact, that homosexuality was against the law,β says author and activist Fran Leibowitz inΒ Killing Patient Zero. βIt was against the lawβnot just that your parents didnβt like you or people you went to school with didnβt like you. It was actually a crime.β Leibowitz makes an emphatic point in the introductory ofΒ Killing Patient ZeroΒ that encapsulates the pervasive homophobia that allowed theΒ AIDSΒ crisis to devastate the gay community while the powers that