Aids
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PLEASE HOLD : a Video by Alexandra Juhasz : how do mourning and memory change across time and tech for people with AIDS
This experimental video by Alexandra Juhasz does not make for easy viewing. Especially for those of us of a certain age who somehow survived the AIDS pandemic whilst our loved ones didnt. AIDS may have peaked some 30 years up until the arrival of protese inhibitors in 1996 which removed the automatic death sentence for…
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John Carlos Frey talks about THE LITTLE PAGEANT THAT COULD the compelling heartwarming story of the history of the Best In Drag Show
The Little Pageant That Could is a compelling new documentary on how a few friends in West Hollywood spontaneously got together in the middle of the AIDS Crisis to help the community survive the pandemic in the best way it could . And that was by creating L.A.’s Best in Drag Show which started…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews “GAY USA” first American feature-length documentary by and about LGBTQ+ people.from 1977
Step back in time to another era of queer life with the relaunch of Gay USA, the seminal 1977 documentary on the huge Pride protests/celebrations of that summer. Now digitally remastered, Arthur J Bressan Jr.’s iconic time-capsule film was the first documentary by queer people about queer people. Gay USA saw 25 photographers/interviewers…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews COMMITMENT TO LIFE ‘the most comprehensive film on the history of AIDS’
Los Angeles, 1981. The dark shadow of the global HIV/AIDS epidemic was just beginning and, for the time being, the thriving queer community members of West Hollywood’s ‘BoysTown’ were living life to the full, blissfully unaware of what lay ahead for them. Emmy Award-Winner film-maker Jeffrey Schwarz begins his latest documentary here and takes…
