Angels in America overtly creates a story of identities that are hidden, identities that are shamed, and identities that are longing for a truth in life. Kushner has the ability to let the reader see anguish, but also see happiness, in a plague that never had a happy ending. Gloria Anzaldúa, in her piece, Speaking in Tongues: A Letter to 3rd World Women Writers, writes about the oppression and the lack of notice that lesbian women of color writers, have to endure in order to be seen as a legitimate writer. In her piece she writes, “We don’t have as much to lose – we never had any privileges. I wanted to call the dangers “obstacles” but that would be a kind of lying. We can’t transcend the dangers, can’t rise above them. We must go through them and hope we won’t have to repeat the performance” (Anzaldúa, 1). The “dangers” for Anzaludúa are a voice for the lesbian women of color and the “dangers” for Kushner is the AIDS crisis. I want to make the claim that Anzaldúa’s quote correlates with Angels insofar as to say that those “dangers” are the epicenter of both stories. Anzaldúa says that these people have “never had any privileges” (Anzaldúa, 1), but it’s in the way that they go through those “dangers” that makes the intersectionality’s of these marginalized people similar. However, although these people are going through these “dangers,” there is a dissimilar aspect that has to be acknowledged. One group are seen and the other group is not; the ones that are seen, however, are not being acknowledged. Anzaldúa argues that the lesbian women of color are not even seen or acknowledged. Therefore, their voices are not even being heard or respected because they are such a unheard group. The AIDS crisis was acknowledged but it took a few years for people in power to realize that this epidemic was killing at a rapid rate. Even in the case with Prior and Louis, Louis knows that Prior is dying but can’t bring himself to stay with him. Joe’s mother, Hannah, knows that her son is gay but refuses to acknowledge, as she still thinks he has the ability to change. The characters in Angels have “obstacles” however they are still having to “repeat the performance,” they are still having to relive pain, and relive oppression. They are forever not being able to “rise above.”