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Does Anyone Die of AIDS Anymore? By Louise Hogarth
The answer to this disturbing film's title question is a resounding yes! Despite the much-hyped advances in treatment which, for some patients, have transformed HIV from a death sentence to a chronic illness, tens of thousands of people are still dying of AIDS in the United States. And tens of thousands more will die, even in this rich and medically advanced nation, because of ignorance and denial, which have resulted in a "third wave" of HIV infection.
Tongues Untied
by Marlon Riggs
This is the acclaimed account of Black gay life by Emmy Award-winning director Marlon Riggs. Using poetry, personal testimony, rap and performance, Tongues Untied describes the homophobia and racism that confront Black gay men.
Undetectable:The New Face of AIDS
By Jay Corcoran
This gripping documentary follows six women and men, straight and gay, of different ethnic and cultural backgrounds, over a three-year period as they deal for the first time with hope. Though the new multi-drug therapies for HIV disease offer a possible reprieve from what was once a death sentence, those who are lucky enough to respond to the drugs nonetheless face both a grueling treatment regimen, and the complex physical and psychological challenges of rebuilding their lives. And not everyone responds
Coming To Say Goodbye: Stories of AIDS in Africa
The stories of Rosalyn and her daughter, Mwaisha and her son, Christopher and his brothers, Bibi and her granddaughters are a personalized journal of the spread of this modern plague as it threatens the foundations of nation-building in Kenya and Tanzania. Because of the immensity of the problem, the poor are often left by themselves to deal with AIDS. They lack even the food needed to take medicine
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properly. Most of the patients are women, typically rejected and abandoned by their families. Also doomed are between 100,000 and 150,000 orphans in East Africa infected with AIDS. As one interviewee says, “AIDS statistics are numbers with the tears washed off.” The stories are woven together with insights from church workers, social workers, educators, and medical professionals who, as they struggle to stand by those who are suffering, are having to deal with a collapsing health care system.
Common Threads
(DVD)
Common Threads: Stories From the Quilt helps put faces on the names on the quilt of those who have died from AIDS. The quilt at that time covered 14 acres. The lives of five people who suffered and fought this disease are celebrate
The Times of Harvey Milk
A documentary portrait of San Francisco's first openly gay politician, city supervisor Harvey Milk, The Times of Harvey Milk might not have been made but for the tragic circumstances of Milk's death. On November 27, 1978, Dan White, a former city supervisor who was desperate to regain his post, entered City Hall with a gun and murdered both San Francisco's mayor, George Moscone, and Milk. At the trial, White's lawyer skillfully turned the jury's attention away from his client's public antigay statements to focus on White's spotless record and his extremely agitated mental state on the day of the murders. White was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced to a relatively brief jail term, sparking a demonstration and riot by gay supporters of the murdered men. The film considers Milk's accomplishments and his exceptional popularity; this is not an objective look at a man, but a celebration of a martyr.
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Moulin Rouge
A Bazmark Production
Christian (McGregor), an idealistic and impoverished young writer who, newly arrived in Montmartre, is haphazardly inducted into a circle of young bohemians led by Toulouse-Lautrec. A comedy of mistaken identities ensues, quickly enmeshing the young poet in a love triangle involving the unobtainable and consumptive Satine (Kidman), queen courtesan of the Moulin Rouge, and the foppish Duke of Roxbury, his villainous rival for her affections
Angels in America
Directed by Mike Nichols
Drama explores issues surrounding AIDS and homosexuality in the 1980s. Includes fictionalized material from the life of politician Roy Cohn as well as original fictional characters and plots.
Ma Vie En Rose
By Alain Berliner
Ludovic is waiting for a miracle. With six-year-old certainty, he believes he was meant to be a little girl and that the mistake will soon be corrected. But where he expects the miraculous, Ludo finds only rejection, isolation and guilt--as the intense reactions of family, friends, and neighbors strip away every innocent lace and bauble.
The Brandon Teena Story
By Susan Muska and Greta Olafsdottir
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Documentary film about Brandon Teena, who arrived in rural Falls City, Nebraska, in 1993 where he finds some new friends. Three weeks later he is brutally raped and beaten by friends who discover that he is actually a woman. A week later the same two men murder Teena along with two other people. This is a tale of Brandon's coming of age struggle with identity and how his gender ambiguity induced feelings of betrayal, confusion and hostility among residents of a town in America's heartland.
Boys Don’t’ Cry
By Kimberly Price
Based on a true story, this drama was adapted from the life of Brandon Teena, born Teena Brandon, a woman who chose to live her life as a man and suffered tragic consequences as a result.