In the film, the real tensns of gay life the 1980s – om ernment apathy towards the AIDS crisis, to rampant anti-gay prejudice – don’t get their due.
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The film impli that this is Freddie's first gay experience. ” The film has been dogged by accatns of homophobia, and the film’s director, Bryan Sger, was acced of rape and sexual abe.
But as a gay historian, I keep g back to somethg else – the tragic history that’s glargly absent om this movie. Gay men, the thkg went, were gettg bee of “risky” behavrs like havg lots of partners.
The medil profsn’s view of HIV was so lored by the ia that was trsilly gay that at first they named the vis “GRID, ” an acronym for “gay-related immunoficiency.