Tag: AIDS
Mondo Bullshittio #56: The U.S. Not Promoting World AIDS Day This Year
In a series called Mondo Bullshittio, let’s talk about some of the most glaring hypocrisies and faux pas in pop culture and politics…and all that [Read More…]
All of Us Strangers: If M. Night Shyamalan Was Queer and Romantic and British and Gen X (and Still Any Good)
A writer is an essentially lonely person. Someone, in fact, who usually prefers to be alone. Except when they start to realize that perhaps they [Read More…]
Unclear Why It’s Called AHS: NYC and Not AHS: AIDS
At a Pride performance called Finally Enough Love (in honor of the remix album of the same name) back in June, Madonna quipped, “One of the reasons [Read More…]
Dancing Among the Carnage: It’s A Sin
“That’s what people will forget. That it was so much fun.” Despite the sadness of It’s A Sin and its subject matter, this is what [Read More…]
The AIDS Effect on Hollywood Paranoia Reaches a New, More Fear-Inducing Level With Corona
While the notion of AIDS being “shocking” or even (as) stigmatized in the present drifts ever further into the ether of the past (the 1980s [Read More…]
Mondo Bullshittio #22: The Reagans Feigning Friendship With Rock Hudson & Then Distancing Themselves When He Was Dying of AIDS
While freedom might just be another word for nothing left to lose (like Janis said), Republican, of course, is often just another word for money-grubbing [Read More…]
Rayanne Graff Was the Original Rayon
Now that Jared Leto has secured an Oscar win for his role as Rayon in Dallas Buyers Club, it seems fitting to pay homage to the [Read More…]
The Most Nuanced Moments of The Carrie Diaries
With series writers that include former Sex and the City veteran Amy Harris and Candace Bushnell herself, it’s no surprise that The Carrie Diaries is as well-thought out and [Read More…]
