It's a Sin (TV Mini Series)

Episode #1.2 (2021)

Olly Alexander: Ritchie Tozer

Quotes 

• Ritchie Tozer : Oh, he said, she said, they said, they're always saying something. But you want to know the truth? Do you know what it really is, AIDS? It's a racket. It's a moneymaking scheme for drugs companies. Do you seriously think there's an illness that only kills gay men? It can calculate that you're gay and kill you but no one else? Hmm. What about bisexuals? Do they only get sick every other day? And they say it's a cancer, but you can't catch cancer. Cancer is not a thing that can get caught. It's not like a cold or a cough. It's cancer. It doesn't transmit. 'Cause imagine it. Gay cancer. How is a cancer gay? I mean, what does it look like? Is it pink? Where is it? Is it in the wrists? I mean, for God's sake. You hear all these stories and all these rumors and all these nightmares because that's what they want you to think, that lot. They want to scare us and stop us having sex and make us really boring basically because they can't get laid. That's the truth. 'Cause according to them, how does it work, this AIDS thing? Okay, they say it's spread by poppers. They say it arrived from outer space on a comet. And they say that God created it to strike us dead. They say it was created in a laboratory to kill us. They say it's the Russians. They say we got it from the jungle. They say it's caused by friction!

  [crowd howls] 

  Ritchie Tozer : They say it's in the spunk. They say Freddie Laker spread it when he introduced cheap flights. They say there's one patient zero spreading it wherever he goes. Whoo! They say it affects homosexuals, Haitians, and hemophiliacs, like there's a disease which has targeted the letter H. Who's it going to get next, people from Hartlepool and Hampshire and Hull? Don't you see what all of these things have got in common?

  [enters a club called Heaven] 

  Ritchie Tozer : They're not true. And how do I know? How do I know it's not true? Because I'm not stupid! Which means, I don't believe it. I don't believe it. I don't believe a word of it! Now hit me with those laser beams!