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Contents:
- IT’S A S IS A LOVE LETTER TO 1980S GAY CULTURE – AND HATE MAIL TO THE ERA’S HOMOPHOBIC HEGEMONY
- IT’S A S CREATOR RSELL T DAVI: “CAST GAY AS GAY”
IT’S A S IS A LOVE LETTER TO 1980S GAY CULTURE – AND HATE MAIL TO THE ERA’S HOMOPHOBIC HEGEMONY
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 scene *
Do you serly thk there is an illns that only kills gay men?
It n lculate that you're gay and kill you, but only if you're gay and no one else?
How n tell you're gay? Takg part the nversatn are Lisa Power, a -founr of LGBT chary Stonewall who also volunteered for Swchboard durg the Aids crisis; the Rev Richard Col, the vir of Fedon Northamptonshire and former member of the pop group the Communards; Marc Thompson, an HIV activist, the director of the Love Tank CIC and the -founr of PrEPster; Guardian lumnist and thor Owen Jon; Omari Douglas, who plays the character Rose It’s a S; and Jason Okundaye, a wrer and the -founr of Black & Gay, back the day, a digal archive honourg and rememberg black queer life those of you who lived through the perd, what memori did watchg the show brg back?
IT’S A S CREATOR RSELL T DAVI: “CAST GAY AS GAY”
Rsell T. Davi's "betifully gay" seri creat an evotive, personal time psule of an 1980s London bet by the Aids crisis. * it's a sin gay scene *
Richard Col: My first engagement wh Aids was through the gay prs – there were mours of this “gay ncer” that was happeng Ameri.
* it's a sin gay scene *
Then the first person close to me who died was the activist Mark Ashton, who was a very signifint person on the gay scene. I remember movg through the phas: what is this thg that is killg gay men?