Tag: Aids
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Disney and Don’t Say Gay
I’ve been watching several of these videos and they sum up not just what’s wrong in Florida and Disney with the Don’t Say Gay bill they helped fund (as did many other corporations including the new owners of Sky and Dreamworks) but also wider problems – with class, representation, and exploitation. The latter point is…
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RC 345: How To Survive A Plague Part 2: We Will Survive
Second part of How To Survive A Plague, and we cover the period 1989-2000 and beyond as the fight for drugs, money and action for the AIDS crisis comes to a crunch, and as Hollywood starts to pay attention (although no straight Oscar-baiting tragic gay tropes here – Peter’s Friends/Philadelphia *cough*). It’s not all doom…
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Ubuntu (Water into Wine) and Sick to D(eat)h
UBUNTU (Water Into Wine) by Sage Francis I was late getting round to listening to Sage Francis’s last mixtape Sick to D(eat)h released the end of last year, but given the new album is around the corner I thought I should. And I was struck by the song Ubuntu (Water into Wine) because not only…
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Never forget
Just going down memory lane partly because me and Kirk were chatting about the mid 90’s gay scene with a bloke down the pub last week. It turns out the first gay club I went into is now a hipster ‘rock and roll pool hall‘. Hmm, like Coleherne toilets now being the gastropub kitchen, it’s…
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Never Forget: How to Survive A Plague
In the Oscars there’s a interesting nomination hidden away – the AIDS documentary ‘How to Survive A Plague’ by David France. Covering the period where governments worldwide were dismissing it as a ‘gay’ problem and not really bothered about what happens to them (very wrong on both counts; like other epidemics these things don’t self…
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RC 230: End of the World
So it’s the end of the world as I know it, and I feel fine. Actually it is the end of the world of decent sub-editing that doesn’t mention the obvious REM reference every 2.6 seconds…we’ll know on the 21st if those ol’ Mayans were right. Then again they never saw their end coming, so…