Aids

  • Steven Reigns talks about A QUILT FOR DAVID

    Steven Reigns talks about A QUILT FOR DAVID

      Steven Reigns poet, educator, activist + first Poet Laureate of West Hollywood came to East End Books Ptown to launch Steven Reigns’s Quilt For David the hidden history of a vulnerable gay man whose life and death was turned into tabloid fodder he stopped by to talk with Queerguru . The book is a…

  • The Princess, the patient, and the handshake that changed the face of AIDS

    The Princess, the patient, and the handshake that changed the face of AIDS

      Bren Gosling‘s play MOMENT OF GRACE captures a very significant moment that created such a seachange when Diana, Princess of Wales shook the hands of an AIDS patient in a London Hospice back in 1987.   Bren Gosling talks about his play…. now at The Hope Theatre in London …. with QUEERGURU and how this one single…

  • AIDS  The Unheard Tapes – tragedy and joy from voices no longer with us

    AIDS The Unheard Tapes – tragedy and joy from voices no longer with us

      In the 1980s and 90s, as a new and apparently unstoppable disease ravaged the gay community, volunteers began to record for posterity interviews with the men infected with what would eventually be identified as the HIV virus, and with their friends. The tapes are now archived at the British Library and have never been broadcast…

  • The princess, the patient and the handshake that changed the face of AIDS

    The princess, the patient and the handshake that changed the face of AIDS

      Queer Brit award-winning writer Bren Gosling latest play MOMENT OF GRACE tells the story of the famous visit by Diana Princess of Wales to Britain’s first AIDS Unit and its impact on three people: Andrew, a patient, Jude, a nurse, and Donnie, a fireman estranged from his son. AIDS was taboo. Even being seen…