An Early Frost 1985 Set in the mid eighties Michael Pierson, a young gay man, is struck with AIDS in the prime of his life Hes forced to be open about the disease and his homosexuality for the first time with his co workers hes a successful lawyer and family He, and the people around him, must face up to the inevitablity of his death and the disease thats killing him An Early Frost was many peoples first look at an AIDS victim as a human being instead of a statistic