The Rsell T Davi seri about young gay men at the onset of AIDS is heartbreakg but also full of life.
Contents:
- 'IT'S A S' BRGS A LOST GENERATN OF GAY MEN TO LIFE
- IS BEG GAY A S?
- IT’S A S CREATOR RSELL T DAVI: “CAST GAY AS GAY”
- IS IT A S TO BE GAY?
'IT'S A S' BRGS A LOST GENERATN OF GAY MEN TO LIFE
A new Brish TV drama looks at the liv of gay men London at the very start of the AIDS crisis — back when no one wanted to stop the party, and no one thought the vis uld touch them. * it's a sin gay *
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IS BEG GAY A S?
The acclaimed HBO Max seri, featurg a largely LGBTQ st, tells the story of a group of gay men and their iends London the early 1980s at the begng of the HIV/AIDS crisis, shg a light on a dark chapter that's been fadg om memory. * it's a sin gay *
It follows the liv of four gay men their 20s — and a ccial girliend — who arrive London at the begng of the ’80s, jt as Davi did, jt as mors of a myster new plague began to perlate across the Atlantic. ”AIDS is the ccible livg si every gay wrer old enough to remember .
IT’S A S CREATOR RSELL T DAVI: “CAST GAY AS GAY”
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He was outdoors June 1983, walkg the blazg sun, when he spotted this headle Him Monthly magaze: “AIDS Gay Death-Plot Panic” — the words superimposed on an erotic drawg of naked men boilg to ath a tt tube.
IS IT A S TO BE GAY?
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When his band Years & Years performed at the Glastonbury ftival 2019, Alexanr gave an impassned four-mute speech about gay rights that went viral.