1982£®Baltimore£¬Maryland£®A young<br > man bides time in a dimly lit gay bar£®He<br > reads the local gay paper£¬which features a<br > story about six gay men hospitalized with<br > either a rare form of pneumonia or a cancer<br > previously seen only in elderly Mediter¡ª<br > ranean men£®Immediately，his mind flashes<br > back to a Japanese science fiction movie<br > called The Mysterians that he saw as a child<br > in which an alien race unleashed a fatal<br > virus that decimated the human race£®At one<br > point the alien leader，who looked like a pre¡ª<br > cursor to Darth Vader，announced on every<br > television in the world£º¡°Resistance iS fu¡ª<br > tile--surrender a11 hope£®¡±People fell dead in<br > the street£¬covered with spots like medieval<br > plague victims£®That movie kept an eight¡ª<br > year¡ªold boy up for weeks£®NOW he can¡¯t re¡ª<br > member how it ended£¬but he feels he¡¯S back<br > living those childhood nightmares£®A former<br > partner comes over to him£¬but his face has<br > the drawn look of a sick person£®The young<br > man mumbles some words and walks away£®<br >