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Kramer wrote the play before Print Reagan had ever publicly acknowledged the existence of AIDS but after several thoand men, a number of whom were his close personal iends, had died of a myster "gay ncer. He draws raw pathos om Ned and Felix's first night together, makg as much an emotnal uplg as a physil the film opens, Ned is shown on the periphery of gay culture at a rowdy beach party on Fire Island.

Brookner (an exceptnal Julia Roberts) fally alerts him to the existence of a rare ncer that's stroyg the immune systems of gay men New York, you uld uncharably argue that one reason for Ned's urgent attachment to the e is his disfort wh the liberated, hypersexualized culture his iends have embraced. It's Emma who nonts the ernment, and when a burecrat cl her fundg requt and scrib her rearch as "imprecise and unfoced, " her outburst mak even Ned raise his 's last scene shows him on the sil, aga, as gut of honor at Yale's gay week, after he tried to m suici there as an unrgrad bee he felt so sperate and isolated. In an earlier scene, Ned scrib Alan Turg as his personal hero: an openly gay man who saved the world and was ccified for .

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