A Plague on All Our Houses by Bruce J. Hillman

Author:Bruce J. Hillman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University Press of New England

Gottlieb remembered the conversation and felt that his former chairman’s characterization had unfairly represented his motives. “Yes, I was cultivating connections to help the AIDS cause and with the goal of helping AIDS programs at the university get ahead,” he said. He believed Shine had largely ignored the epidemic into which Gottlieb had thrown his every professional effort. “In retrospect, it should have been clear to me that their agenda was to deemphasize AIDS, and that was hard to do with Rock Hudson in the hospital. If he thought responding to phone calls was about star-fucking,26 he was wrong. It wasn’t.”

Gottlieb believed that the Rock Hudson affair was lethal to his academic prospects: “There was a great deal of envy and jealousy about my being Rock’s physician and a great deal of irritation on the part of the administration that UCLA had been so openly associated with being an AIDS center.” His superiors’ perceptions of Gottlieb’s role in the Rock Hudson affair would haunt him throughout the remainder of his employment at the university. The episode had moved Michael Gottlieb from the eye of the storm to ground zero.

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