Below are links to information or articles about recent theatre, films, TV, books, and music that explore the ongoing stories and experiences of living with HIV. Please feel free to make suggestions about additions to this list.
Billy Porter Breaks a 14-Year Silence: “This Is What HIV-Positive Looks Like Now”
For the first time since being diagnosed more than a decade ago, the ‘Pose’ star opens up about the shame that compelled him to hide his condition from his castmates, collaborators and even his mother, and the responsibility that now has him speaking out: “The truth is the healing.”
‘It’s a Sin’ Is a Transporting and Tragic Tale of the AIDS Epidemic: TV Review
“Their stories, halted or attenuated by a virus with a cunning way of insinuating itself into the still-nascent gay community, are told here with care and deep thought. Davies has once again made great and painful art about time’s passage, and has earned the attention of anyone who wants to learn more about what the 1980s were like for gay people — or wants to connect, deeply, with a raw and rounded humanity in all its beauty, complexity, and fleeting joy.”
Variety review by David D’Addario
By Tyler Curry for out.com
Last season, ABC’s How to Get Away With Murder, left its fans reeling when it was revealed that Connor’s on-again, off-again boyfriend Oliver was diagnosed with HIV. It was the twist that many fans didn’t see coming, since Connor was the ultimate bad boy while nerdy-cute Oliver was the commitment type. It was shocking. It was refreshing. And it was the first time in a long time that the topic of HIV has been discussed on primetime television… (read more)
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Two friends, Kendi and Kayla, show that HIV is no barrier to friendship and, by taking medicine, children living with HIV can lead healthy lives.
Dallas Buyers Club
Living With the Past by Tim Murphy
POZ.com, June 17, 2013
Terrence McNally talks about his new AIDS memory play Mothers and Sons—and about the history he’s witnessed in his 74 years.
AIDS in New York: The First Five Years
AIDS in New York: The First Five Years
will explore the impact of the epidemic on personal lives, public health and medical practices, culture, and politics in New York City and the nation. Drawing from the archives of the New York Public Library, New York University, and the National Archive of LGBT History, the show will use posters, photographs, and artifacts to tell the story of the early years of AIDS in New York.
Tyler Perry’s ‘Temptation’ Shamefully Stigmatizes People With HIV
How to Survive a Plague: Sundance Film Review
by David Rooney
The Bottom Line – A major addition to the body of work chronicling the AIDS epidemic, this is a passionate account of the hard-won breakthrough in making HIV a manageable condition.
Stunning.