
In Salt Lake City, Utah, the religious monoculture severely complicated the AIDS crisis. Patients received no support from and were even exiled from the political, religious, or medical communities. Further, Mormon culture encouraged gay men to marry women and have a family to cure themselves of their "affliction," counsel which led to secret affairs and accidental marital transmissions of HIV. In the entire state and intermountain region there was only one doctor to serve al... (Full plot summary below)
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In Salt Lake City, Utah, the religious monoculture severely complicated the AIDS crisis. Patients received no support from and were even exiled from the political, religious, or medical communities. Further, Mormon culture encouraged gay men to marry women and have a family to cure themselves of their "affliction," counsel which led to secret affairs and accidental marital transmissions of HIV. In the entire state and intermountain region there was only one doctor to serve all HIV/AIDS patients. This is the story of her fight to save the lives of a maligned population everyone else seemed willing to just let die.
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| Movie NationRoger MooreAn extremely touching account of the few, the righteous who fought the AIDS epidemic in the middle of Mormon Country -- Salt Lake City, Utah. |
| FandorSarah FonsecaQuiet Heroes is worthy of a loud round of applause. |
| VarietyDennis Harvey"Quiet Heroes" is duly inspirational, just like its central figures. |