Aids
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Don’t Forget To Remember
Yesterday London Underground (known locally as ‘the Tube’) unveiled a stunning series of artworks by the late Australian artist/LGBT activist David McDiarmid that reference the AIDS Crisis. McDiarmid who died aged 43 in 1995 was known for his Rainbow Aphorisms that he produced in response to his own, and his community’s, experience of the AIDS…
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Designers Against AIDS
The ‘Love Life”T Shirt above is from N.I.C.E. Collective in San Francisco and is just one of the many fab garments you can buy online from DESIGNERS AGAINST AIDS website. This is run by the ‘Beauty Without Irony’ a not-for-profit fundraising charity in Antwerp Belgium which was launched in 2004 to raise AIDS awareness in the international…
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Last Days In Havana
This somewhat depressing Cuban 0dd-couple tale takes part in a dilapidated Havana neighborhood where time has stood still and where both the fabric of the buildings and life in general struggle to survive. The rather dour-looking 50 year old Miguel (Patricio Wood) ekes out a living as a dishwasher at a cafe by day, and…
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(BPM) Beats Per Minute
If David France’s Oscar nominated ‘How To Survive a Plague‘ is recognized as the seminal movie on AIDS in the US, then Robin Campillo’s stunning new masterpiece BPM (Beats Per Minute) is undoubtably Europe’s candidate for the title. His sprawling and somewhat harrowing tale that centers on the ACT UP group in Paris is…
