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• Angels in America

  a Gay Fantasia on National Themes

  Kushner, Tony

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  Until recently drama was one of the only places where you could find candid accounts of the AIDs pandemic. Tony Kushner's celebrated magnum opus "Angels in America" paints the height of the pandemic in its most honest form, whilst also mixing in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Inheritance

  Lopez, Matthew,

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  This adaptation of Forster's "Howard's End" is a contemporary counter part to "Angels in America". "The Inheritance is more about what it means to be a gay person now and the legacy the AIDS pandemic has left on the community.

• The Normal Heart

  Kramer, Larry

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  Perhaps the most celebrated AIDs drama. The Normal Heart is a grueling but honest story of a couple effected by the AIDs Pandemic, and also of the Doctor who did everything she could to save the community.

• Stitch by Stitch

  Cleve Jones and the AIDS Memorial Quilt

  Sanders, Rob, 1958-

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  The Stonewall Riots of 1969 and the AIDS crisis of the 1980s have been captured in minute detail, and rightly memorialized in books, on tv, and in film as pivotal and powerful moments in queer history. Yet what about the moments in between—the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat

  Crossing Lines

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  Keith Haring | Jean-Michel Basquiat: Crossing Lines draws out the many intersections between the artists’ lives, practices and ideas. It includes more than 200 images, including works created in public spaces, paintings, sculptures, objects, works…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The World Only Spins Forward

  the Ascent of Angels in America

  Butler, Isaac,

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  The oral history of Angels in America, told by artists who created it and audiences forever changed by it-a moving account of the AIDS era, essential queer history, and an exuberant backstage tale.

• Arthur Ashe

  a Life

  Arsenault, Raymond,

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  The first comprehensive, authoritative biography of American icon Arthur Ashe—the Jackie Robinson of men’s tennis—a pioneering athlete who, after breaking the color barrier, went on to become an influential civil rights activist and public…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Great Believers

  Makkai, Rebecca,

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  In 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago, is about to pull off an amazing coup, bringing in an extraordinary collection of 1920s paintings as a gift to the gallery. Yet as his career begins to flourish, the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• How to Survive a Plague

  the Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS

  France, David, 1959-

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  The definitive history of the successful battle to halt the AIDS epidemic from the creator of, and inspired by, the seminal documentary How to Survive a Plague.

• Love Is the Cure : on Life, Loss, and the End of AIDS

  John, Elton

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  In the 1980s, Elton John saw friend after friend, loved one after loved one, perish needlessly from AIDS. He befriended Ryan White, a young Indiana boy ostracized because of his HIV infection. Ryan's inspiring life and devastating death led Elton to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mercury : An Intimate Biography of Freddie Mercury

  Jones, Lesley-Ann

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  Revealing and intimate, based on more than 100 interviews with key figures in his life, this is the definitive biography of Queen front man Freddie Mercury, one of pop music’s best-loved and most complex figures.

• Bohemian Rhapsody

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  The academy award winning biopic of the late great Freddie Mercury.

• The Normal Heart

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  The award winning film adaptation of the celebrated play.

• Angels in America

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  The HBO miniseries adaptation of the iconic play.

• Rent

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  "Seasons of Love" has defined a life style for the hundreds of thousands of people who have seen this musical. Celebrate life with this film adaptation of the Jonathan Larson musical.