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Edward Stierle’s Lacrymosa : living life with no regrets.

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Over the next three nights Dance Now! one of the leading contemporary dance companies in Miami will be performing Lacrymosa, a 30 minute ballet created by the late Edward Stierle in 1987 when was a mere 19 years old. Stierle was a principal dancer with prestigious Joffrey Ballet and at that time he was already infected with the HIV virus, … Continue reading



The Companion

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Every country in the world dealt with the AIDS epidemic in the 1980’s & 1990’s in different way, and the government in Cuba chose to round up patients and send them to a military facility turned into a sanitarium where they were very carefully ‘supervised’. If the patient conformed and behaved they were allowed out on … Continue reading



Sugar Baby Love

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The screenshot above is from a rather wonderful animated French AIDS Public Service Announcement that we have just discovered. Directed by Wilfrid Brimo, it  chronicles a lifetime of gay sex, love and heartbreak, featuring a track from the 1970s by The Rubettes called “Sugar Baby Love”.  



The Last One

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During a Candlelight Memorial to slain gay politician Harvey Milk in San Francisco in 1985 Cleve Jones who had been an Intern for Milk and two years ago prior had co-founded the San Francisco AIDS Foundation came up with the idea of the AIDS Memorial Quilt. It took him and his colleagues another two years … Continue reading



The Normal Heart

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Larry Kramer is perpetually angry. This prominent loud-mouthed writer and gay activist has been shouting out his highly personal take on some of life’s iniquities and in-equalities for the past 40 years and has made himself famously unpopular. It was his exasperation with the apathy of the gay community when the AIDS scare first started … Continue reading



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