Angels Ameri: A Gay Fantasia on... book by Tony Khner

Contents:

• ANGELS AMERI: A GAY FANTASIA ON NATNAL THEM
• ANGELS AMERI: A GAY FANTASIA ON NATNAL THEM
• ANGELS AMERI: A GAY FANTASIA ON NATNAL THEM: PART ONE: MILLENNIUM APPROACH PART TWO: PERTROIKA
• ANGELS AMERI: A GAY FANTASIA ON NATNAL THEM

ANGELS AMERI: A GAY FANTASIA ON NATNAL THEM

Ameri: A Gay Fantasia On Natnal Them, is, que. may be the pnacle of gay theatre. as AIDS was vastatg the gay muny.

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ANGELS AMERI: A GAY FANTASIA ON NATNAL THEM

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ANGELS AMERI: A GAY FANTASIA ON NATNAL THEM: PART ONE: MILLENNIUM APPROACH PART TWO: PERTROIKA

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Homosexualy the AIDS Era Theme Angels Ameri | LCharts. Durg the 1980s, hundreds of thoands of Amerins, many of them gay men, ntracted the HIV/AIDS vis, a adly disease that stroys the human immune system and typilly rults ath. ) It’s impossible to unrstand Angels Ameri—not jt s plot and ntext, but also s tone—whout unrstandg a few thgs about the AIDS crisis of the most important pots about the AIDS era was that brought a new urgency to qutns of homosexualy and “the closet, ” and enuraged members of the homosexual muny to be upont and vol about their health.

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ANGELS AMERI: A GAY FANTASIA ON NATNAL THEM

Gay rights activists enuraged AIDS victims to speak out about their disease—speakg out uld be paful and huiatg, but was also the only way to prsure the Whe Hoe to acknowledgg the AIDS crisis and hopefully fundg medil rearch that uld end, a more abstract, polil sense, the AIDS crisis forced all homosexual people to “choose sis.

” Acrdg to Larry Kramer, one of the most important gay rights activists of the era, was impossible for gay people to be ntral the 1980s.

By remag the closet, gay people weren’t jt ncealg their own sexualy om other people—they were also makg more difficult for the gay muny as a whole to get regnn om the general public, and th get the medil treatment sperately need. Khner rerc this ia via the character of Joe Pt, a closeted gay man who is, que lerally, part of the problem. As a law clerk New York Cy, mentored by the famo nservative homophobe Roy Cohn, Joe spends a wrg legal opns that punish homosexuals, unrme their rights, and generally make their qualy of life worse.