This movie (And The Band Played On) needs to to have a television series based on it as a continuation of the HIV/AIDS in the United States. The television series should have the HIV/AIDS epidemic predating the 1980s, as HIV infections in the United States started in the 1970s.
I know this movie well, seen it dozens of times..If you want any sense of how AIDS took the world by storm, this movie is one of the most honest depictions I've seen yet..I've seen people effected by it, I've seen the devastation it can cause, I was going to school to be a doctor, had thought about specializing in Aids care, and what it does to the body inside and out..Such brave souls who went through this terrible time..I don't care who you are or who you love, nobody deserves AIDS just because they wanted to be sexually liberated or have a lifestyle someone else didn't approve of! Thank God we have more life saving medicines today..I just have to say again..the people that got stricken with the disease were some of the bravest people who could really teach you a thing or two about life! I hope they are all at some kind of peace now....
You’re making it seem as if they were given aids because of their lifestyle, you’re wrong if that’s what you think. They may not have chosen to be gay but they chose the lifestyle of bath house hook ups and night club orgies. I’ve watched this movie and read a little bit on the early onslaught of this disease and i know for a fact that the gay community was told what caused this and how to prevent it and they said no, they would keep doing what they were doing and ultimately paid a high price for it. On top of which there were cases where they kept spreading it knowing that they had it. I cannot in good conscience feel bad for people like that. I do feel for the way they died as it is excruciatingly painful but they knew the risks and did nothing to try to stop it. Did you know that Randy Shilts tried to warn them about this disease and they called him a traitor. He basically said that the Reagan administration and the gay community were at fault for not doing enough to stop the spread of this disease.
@@itslikethesamebutdifferent8020 YO! I have no idea what you're talking about! Have no clue how you took my comment! BUT THERE IS NO WAY IN HELL I THINK THAT BECAUSE OF THEIR LIFESTYLE...FUCK THAT!!!!GO BACK AND RE-READ MY COMMENT! MY BROTHER IS GAY>>NO FUCKING WAY IN HELL I"D THINK THAT!
It's an important film, but I want to draw attention to what Larry Kramer said at a Pride parade before he died, just before COVID: we failed. We failed to push until there was a cure for HIV / AIDS. We failed to keep people taking it seriously after there was medicine available that makes it manageable, but still a deeply serious chronic illness. We failed to learn the lessons of the AIDS epidemic: that people have to be able to change their behavior to look out for their fellow people. COVID is what you get when you see HIV / AIDS as only the disease of "that" community. All human diseases (and maybe all the plant and animal ones too) are everyone's business.
I found Brandy Alexander!! RU-vid Emerald City 1977 # 6. Frank O'Dowd interviews the real Brandy Alexander. You will find it toward the very end of the episode.Brandy was also featured in US magazine July 1982. In 1977 she looked healthy...by July 1982 he was ravaged by the disease.
If it wasn't for these folks, medical cannabis would never have gotten a foothold in California. Cannabis reform is largely due to the massive movement started by AIDS patients to get pain management that wasn't morphine.
Brandy Alexander is the aids victim ...Brandy was a famous New York drag queen from the 60's thru 1980. The real Brandy was featured in US magazine July 1982(Joan Collins was on the cover). This scene is authentic except that Brandys disease had progressed far worse than depicted here. Very sad. Google Brandy Alexander and you will see archived magazines of Brandy on the cover...in a British Drag magazine. She was initially from the big costume...show girl drag era.
@@jeromemathews4857 ...I was 18. As per Brandy- her condition was described in US magazine. She had KS everywhere and aggresive herpes. Also Hepititus and other systemic diseases.
And The Band Played On as well as another TV movie, Alex The Life of Child were movies I watched as a child and they just stuck with me over the decades. Very powerful and raising awareness .
Control= Human beings believe they can control life's trajectory. The disco era created an interval that blew traditional values out of the water. I'm generation X. The greatest generation and some Boomers wanted the world to revert back to conservatism. I grew up watching a hodgepodge of hypocrisy where people touted one idea, but lived by the exact opposite. That's why I love the show ' Pose'. We pretended that this wasn't happening, or that it was a message from God; and some jerks still continue with this attitude (even after twenty years)...ludicrous.
