Gabriel Thomason is a gay activist in New York City.
Background[]
After his brother, who was gay, died of an especially deadly strain of AIDS, Gabriel started a movement named the Rainbow Army to warn other gay men about the dangers of casual sex while on drugs. Gabriel would pass out flyers and condoms to whoever would agree to take caution. When he found out the NYC Health Department, where he worked as a custodian, had contract tracing info revealing the men who infected Alex, he hacked the system and stole an encrypted file with the list, ruining the system. He was fired on accurate suspicion, but he retained the file in hopes of accessing the data.
Strain[]
Gabriel knew the two infected men who had passed the strain of AIDS to his brother, Robin Weller and Lydon Grant, and sought them out to shoot them dead, posing them and staging the crime scenes out of revenge and to expose their declining health. Gabriel confessed to killing them both and threatened to do so to others, asserting all the men who spread HIV without a second thought threatened to do so to others themselves. This was only corroborated from the list being decrypted, thanks to the help of Ken Randall, who was revealed to be gay during the investigation and had both relationships within the community and computer programming and data education from college.
Facing 50 years in prison, Gabriel was convicted of both murders, but Liam Weller, the father of Robin, who had been distancing himself from his family while on drugs, understood the reasoning of Gabriel's actions and appealed for a more lenient sentence. Therefore, Gabriel was sentenced to 15 years in prison.