Aids
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The Companion
Every country in the world dealt with the AIDS epidemic in the 1980’s & 1990’s in different way, and the government in Cuba chose to round up patients and send them to a military facility turned into a sanitarium where they were very carefully ‘supervised’. If the patient conformed and behaved they were allowed out on…
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Sugar Baby Love
The screenshot above is from a rather wonderful animated French AIDS Public Service Announcement that we have just discovered. Directed by Wilfrid Brimo, it chronicles a lifetime of gay sex, love and heartbreak, featuring a track from the 1970s by The Rubettes called “Sugar Baby Love”.
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The Last One
During a Candlelight Memorial to slain gay politician Harvey Milk in San Francisco in 1985 Cleve Jones who had been an Intern for Milk and two years ago prior had co-founded the San Francisco AIDS Foundation came up with the idea of the AIDS Memorial Quilt. It took him and his colleagues another two years…
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The Normal Heart
Larry Kramer is perpetually angry. This prominent loud-mouthed writer and gay activist has been shouting out his highly personal take on some of life’s iniquities and in-equalities for the past 40 years and has made himself famously unpopular. It was his exasperation with the apathy of the gay community when the AIDS scare first started…
