Philadelphia Scene

One scene from the movie that stood out to me was when Denzel Washington was questioning the head of the law firm, Charles Wheeler. The questioning started out with Denzel asking simple questions about Andrew's performance and then suddenly changed his tone and became extremely aggressive asking Charles if he was straight or gay. After being stopped by the judge to cease questioning, he was forced to approach the bench, where he was  forced to explain himself. This was when he explained how this case was not simply about whether or not Charles was fired because he had AIDS but because of the possibility that the law firm was afraid of him being a homosexual. This was the first time in the movie that it was openly admitted that the issue at hand was not because of the disease but the hatred that people had towards homosexuals.