I've never seen the play nor the TV show. I do remember the intense backlash Kramer received — he's antisex! he's a self-hating homosexual! — at the time he wrote the play. This wasn't unwarranted: Kramer did say that when gays got married and were respectable and weren't "flaunting their promiscuous lifestyle" then and only then would AIDS get the attention it deserved. Which was almost true. Weeks is Kramer's stand-in, right? Does the show include the opposing voices?
There's an intriguing commentary on Al Jazeera, which concludes that only by being promiscuous was AIDS given the attention needed, which I don't understand.
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Date: 2014-06-02 09:47 pm (UTC)There's an intriguing commentary on Al Jazeera, which concludes that only by being promiscuous was AIDS given the attention needed, which I don't understand.