PRAY TELL: Ah, and she has arrived.
Yes, uh-uh!
ANGEL: What category should we walk?
Royalty, but we should all walk it together,
all of the house children.
If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
[DOOR OPENING]
PRAY TELL: The category is royalty.
[CHEERING]
Do you know what the greatest pain a person can feel is?
The greatest tragedy a life can experience?
Blanca?
BLANCA: That is having a truth inside of you,
and you not being able to share it.
It is having a great beauty and no one there to see it.
Come on, don't keep me in suspense.
Rip the Band-Aid off.
Blanca, the test confirmed that you have HIV.
PRAY TELL: You having any symptoms?
No.
Then, you know what to do.
Keep living.
Put on your tallest pump and go on and get back out
into the world.
You ain't dead yet.
There is nothing more tragic than a sad queen.
I'm not sad.
[CRYING]
These are the tears of joy.
I don't want to die.
I want to live.
All they says to me is that it's
time for you to find a dream.
I'll take it.
I'm going to for my own house.
It's my time.
It's my dream, and I'm going for it.
You found me.
Took care of me.
You helped me understand.
It's time I passed that kindness on.
Do you have an appointment?
Yes, I do.
Wait here.
This young boy has been discarded, and he is so young.
He believes that it has something to do with who he is.
It's like cancer.
It is going to eat at him from the inside
until he starts to resent even the best parts of himself.
Who are you again?
I'm his mother.
A happy man knows his place.
Whoever got anywhere by knowing their place?
A man who knows his place might as well be a dead man.
You listen to me.
I told you when you joined Evangelista
what I wouldn't tolerate.
You get caught doing anything illegal, don't make me yell
one call.
HELENA: You're upset because you have
compassion and integrity, important qualities
to possess as a parent.
Don't change.
Hey, baby.
Girl, what are you doing out here?
We talked about this.
You said you wasn't going walk the Piers no more.
There are more options out there.
ANGEL: Like what?
Mopping floors and waiting tables?
No, no thanks.
I like being my own boss.
BLANCA: Well, I got a plan.
Get in.
Do you see what I see?
These photos prove you got the look.
You got a light that shines so bright right inside of you.
I just wish you could see it.
You know, for the first time in my life,
I'm fighting back to the bitter end.
I'm not here to gentrify neighborhoods
so white ladies like you can feel comfortable
walking down the street.
I'm here for me.
Get up and put on some cologne that make
you smell like an old whore.
Exsqueeze me?
Get your life together.
The show starts in 10 minutes.
Raising money for HIV and AIDS has always been a passion
of mine, not because I like singing and carrying
on with my family, but because I'm someone
who lives with the virus.
[GASPING]
The first letter in HIV stands for human.
Yes.
(SNAPS FINGERS)
And I want y'all to never forget that.
I know that a man is not going to fill
the void of me losing my salon, but it
was nice to be wanted and seen.
He made me believe that good things are possible.
ANGEL: Aw, Ma.
I'm glad I'm here with all of y'all.
- That's so beautiful. - Aw!
We love you.
You're a natural, Blanca.
Everyone loves you, especially your patients.
You know how rare it is to have somebody
who's positive next to them, someone who understands?
BLANCA: Maybe in another life, I could
have been wearing nurse scrubs.
Or maybe in this one.
It's never too late to go after what you want.
Remember, Doll, there's not many you's out there.
BLANCA: I'm entertaining the thought of actually going
back to school for nursing.
Can I help you study?
I got you, Blanca.
I love you.
I love you too
We rose from the bottom, and we became stars.
When we walk together, we shine brighter than
the entire Manhattan skyline.
We make a statement.
Come on, this could be our one opportunity to remind the world
who we really are.
LIL PAPI: Ya'll my family, and I miss my family.
So I'm in.
Boom.
Me too, Mother.
I'm in.
ANGEL: Uh-uh.
RICKY: Well, if Damon's in, I guess I am too.
I know that ACT UP was slow in building
a Rainbow Coalition to fight this disease,
but they're caught up now.
And they're going to be all kinds of angry
when they find out that 2 out of the 80
people in this specific study are people of color.
And it won't take 3 hours to get a crowd of angry folk
down here to protest, to call up their TV people,
and chronicle this whole thing.
Now, I may be only a nurse's aide,
but I know for sure that for this hospital,
that's bad optics.
SAFAREE: You're HIV positive?
BLANCA: I am.
And I'm proof you are going to be
OK if you follow the protocols.
I can't afford all that.
Well, see, that's why I'm here to help.
I am going to help you get signed up for the AIDS
Drug Assistance Program.
Depending on your income, you might not even have to pay
a penny for your health care.
And let me tell you something.
You are going to be OK.
How about this?
There is a function happening on Saturday night,
something I think you might enjoy.
It's where I found my community and where I found my hope.
[CHEERING]
[MUSIC PLAYING]