Tag: Aids
AIDS DIVA The Legend of Connie Norman
In the second half of the last Century when the LGBTQ community found its very survival was at risk, even at its darkest moments there was usually also a bright beacon of light and hope. As the AIDS pandemic devastated us indiscriminately in the 1980’s most of us felt overwhelmed and helpless, but there…
National Theatre award-winning ANGELS IN AMERICA now streaming online
The UK’s National Theater at Home has just added to their online repertoire Tony Kushner’s queer masterpiece Angels In America. This is the National’s multi-award winning production from 2017 and which won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Revival in London , and when it transferred to Broadway it collected three Tony’s including Best…
Russell T Davies It’s A Sin gets rave reviews
Just two days ago Russell T Davies highly anticipated new queer drama It’s A Sin was released on the UK’s Channel 4 . Since then its has become the most buzzed about and most binge-watched LGBTQ series for a very long time. Davies, whose long resume includes the ground-breaking Queer As Folk series, is…
Another Hayride with the message “self-love would help overcome AIDS”
Queer filmmaker Matt Wolf was born in 1982 a year after the first cases of AIDS were reported in the US. He may have been too young to remember the pandemic at its height, but his excellent new short documentary captures it so succinctly that it will stir up memories that some of us…
Queer as Folk creator Russell T. Davies launches new drama “Its A Sin”
Brit writer Russell T Davies, the creator of the iconic LGBTQ series Queer as Folk is about to launch a brand new powerful AIDS Drama for Channel 4 in the UK and HBO Max in the US “It’s a Sin” will follow the lives of Ritchie Tozer (Olly Alexander) a gay teenager who moves…
