Film about 1980s "Gay Cancer Epimic" sheds light on LGBT rights 2016
Contents:
REMEMBERG THE EARLY DAYS OF 'GAY CANCER'
The first London productn of the Larry Kramer play sce 1986 ptur the fear and anger the gay muny of that – and s heartbreakg personal loss * the normal heart gay cancer *
Almost every character the play and film is based on a real person volved wh Kramer's earlit AIDS activism, cludg some of the six whe gay men who found GMHC.
‘THE NORMAL HEART’ AND THE MORALY OF BEG GAY
Commentator Joe Wright spent more than 10 years dog AIDS muny work San Francis. He says that back 1981 and '82, before AIDS was lled AIDS, was lled "gay ncer." At the time, ncer was the most dread disease the Uned Stat. But for some of the men who had the myster new illns, llg "ncer" was a form of hope. Joe Wright is a stunt at Harvard Medil School. * the normal heart gay cancer *
Whe gay men were certaly the largt mographic early on, but by 1983 the CDC had reported 3, 000 s, wh 1, 283 aths.
A 1989 survey of 500 ACT UP New York members (Gilbert Elbaz, 1992) showed that 80 percent were gay whe men. Larry Kramer’s tobgraphil play, wrten at the time of what many lled the “gay plague” New York, shows how the parallels are c and mensurate.