Wrer Richard McKay on the legacy of Gaëtan Dugas, the man still nnected to false narrativ on gay men and HIV.
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HOW THE GAY AIRLE STEWARD BEME A STEREOTYPE
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'bad, prodigly sexual' gays, for example Dugas. "Knowg John and then, of urse, seeg his credible film Zero Patience, totally woke me up to the ridiculons of the whole 'patient zero' story and to the homophobia behd the need to assign blame for this disease, " Lynd says. This film wants to tell his tthQueeriThe F Mache: Why every Canadian should learn about this untry's 'gay purge'QueeriThe 200 most inic queers cultural history, part oneAs for Lynd's own cematic ntributn to bunkg the myth, the ia first me to his producer, Corey Rsell, who had optned Richard McKay's 2017 book, Patient Zero and the Makg of the AIDS Epimic.
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"Right away, I realized I wanted to make this film bee of havg lived through the tim picts, havg experienced some — though mercifully not the worst — of the horrors of the AIDS years, and bee I have long wanted to mark the sts of homophobia on my generatn of queer men and women, " Lynd says.
I realized that addn to hopefully, and fally, rehabilatg Dugas's name, Killg Patient Zero uld tell the story of the pernic legacy of the homophobia of the tim. And I thk one of the strongt thgs I took om Richard McKay's remarkable book — and this suff my film — was his revelatn of how the homophobia of mastream culture fed the need for blame, and fuelled the dissematn of the ridiculo 'patient zero' story.
"At a time when 600 men were ad or dyg, the news of a 'gay plague' was greeted wh risive lghter, " he says.