Child of a prominent and affluent family, mother of two sons from her marriage to a handsome artist – Mary Fisher seemed to have it all. But in 1991 her world was turned upside down by the news that her ex-husband had AIDS, and the HIV test that confirmed she, too, was infected. In an honest, inspirational memoir, Mary Fisher shares the story of her life: from a childhood scarred by divorce and alcoholism to early career successes as a TV producer and a White House aide; from the wrenching decision to reveal her HIV-positive status to the emotional events leading up to her historic speech at the 1992 Republican National Convention. "The AIDS virus is not a political creature. It does not care whether you are Democrat or Republican. It does not ask whether you are Black or White, male or female, gay or straight, young or old. Tonight I represent an AIDS community whose members have been reluctantly drafted from every segment of American society. Though I am White, and a mother, I am one with a Black infant struggling with the tubes in a Philadelphia hospital. Though I am female, and contracted this disease in marriage, and enjoy the warm support of my family, I am one with the lonely gay man sheltering a flickering candle from the cold wind of his family's rejection… HIV asks only one thing of those it attacks: Are you human? And this is the right question: Are you human?"
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