all of her best friends were gay men. >> when we started apla we first raised $7,000.n 1982 for a small charity. at the very beginning, we rented a tiny office on cole avenue on hollywood avenue. we had two rooms, most of it taken up by the hot line. >> we recruited volunteers and trained them to answer phone calls from people with all of the information that we knew about hiv. >> aids hot line, manual speaking >> there were so many calls and so many people. we had our share of suicide calls. >> do you feel like you have been exposed? >> reporter: we would help them deal with their fears and emotions on the 10 that was a big chunk of what we did. we had our share of family calls where one family member, many times the father, gets to find out that not only is his son gay, but he also has a disease that from what we can tell is going to kill him. >> does your family know? >> yeah. >> what has been their response? >> my mother said god was punishing me for my lifestyle. punishing me for my lifestyle. , season to season, ultomiris is continuous symptom control, with impro