Contents:
- MOVI - THE FATHERS PROJECT, IMAGG A WORLD WHOUT AIDS.
- TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED
MOVI - THE FATHERS PROJECT, IMAGG A WORLD WHOUT AIDS.
Tellg the story of a young attorney who cis to rm his parents that he is both HIV-posive and gay, "An Early Frost" was creded wh phg AIDS to the public nscns at a time when stigma and prejudice ran high (so much so that the work lost $500, 000 revenue when sponsors yanked their advertisements). While the film has historil limatns s portrayal of gay men and relatnships, "An Early Frost" still remas genuely thoughtful and thought-provokg.
(Shilts himself was cricized for polil beliefs, cludg his stance on the "sexual promiscuy" of gay men, which many the LGBTI muny found homophobic.
TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED
Dpe a few crge-worthy scen (cludg Denzel Washgton's overtly manipulative homophobic rant), "Philalphia" was the film that got people to s up their chairs about AIDS, and that alone mak worth seeg. When a man wh HIV is fired by his law firm bee of his ndn, he hir a homophobic small time lawyer as the only willg advote for a wrongful dismissal su. In the early 1980s, the onset of the HIV-AIDS crisis New York led to an emergence of homosexual activists.