Tag: HIV/AIDS
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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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RC 341: How To Survive A Plague Part 1: It Couldn’t Happen Here
February is LGBTQ* History month in the UK, and with the recent TV series ‘It’s A Sin’ it seemed time to post this musical podcast series about the last pandemic, the HIV/AIDS ‘plague’. I started this last April during the first lockdown as I could see parallels between what I lived through in the ’80s…
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Ruth Coker Burks
https://vimeo.com/226478796 Moving short film by Rose MacGowan about a hero, Ruth Coker Burks, who cared for, claimed and buried those abandoned during the AIDS crisis in Arkansas. This was when people wouldn’t even touch those with GRID/AIDS without gloves, families disowned their children, the plague brought out the worst in people except for the likes…
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Where were you? An imperfect list for misplaced fake nostalgia
Really only posting Imperfect List by Big Hard Excellent Fish here for two reasons 1) it’s ace, and has been played twice on Radio Clash, and still is the best thing both Robin Guthrie and Pete Wylie has done – yes including their ‘day jobs’ and 2) all the lyrics for this track on the…
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Pray away the gay tories
Homophobic, xenophobic, Thatcher in sheep’s clothing – vote how you like but those in the UK please don’t vote Tory on the 6th. Why? Well here’s a few reasons close to my heart: Philippa Stroud, Tory PPC for Sutton and Cheam who might well win it, believes you can pray away the gay – literally…
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Happy Scroogemas! And A Bah Humbug New Year!
About to head off to the wilds of Surbiton to see John, probably be online in one way or t’other but y’all have a Happy Scroogemas and Bah Humbug New Year! Happy HanuKwanzaWinterDrinkymas! So to celebrate my commiserations of the season, here is my Bah Humbug exclusive compilation I gave out to people who came…