In her 2012 interview, Margaret (Marge) Sutinen talks about her upbringing in a conservative and Catholic community in Michigan, her unpredictable journey to AIDS activism, and working in Wisconsin doing AIDS education while she cared for AIDS patients. Throughout she discusses her connections to gay men and immersing herself in gay male sexual/bar culture during the 1980s. She also deals with the ways she promoted AIDS research and education through various activist strategies, touching on mass media, celebrity and political sponsorship and demonstrations.