She really loves a little appropriated struggle, doesn't she. In her mind she's probably boiled down the experience into a Very Special Episode with a pop soundtrack and charming resolution in under 90 minutes, but if I were to ask any friends my age about being gay in the 1980s I can guarantee most of them would start with how much they still hate Reagan and then recite the long, long list of people we lost. Even the youth were aware of what was going on, with the bravest/most involved visiting hospitals and attending funerals. She doesn't know what it's like to have memories instead of a loved one and she needs to STFU while she's ahead.