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The Hard Truth About Memorializing the Pandemic POLITICO 2/23/2021 By Jack Shafer © AP Photo/Alex Brandon Lights surround the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, placed as a memorial to Covid-19 victims, Jan. 19, 2021, in Washington. The medical holocaust that is the Covid-19 pandemic—500,000 dead in the United States and 2.5 million worldwide—hasn’t even hit our rearview mirror yet. But as acquired immunity and vaccinations take hold, as the death rate and hospitalizat...

Writer-creator Russell T. Davies details the creation of his riveting new HBO Max limited series starring Years & Years singer Olly Alexander, about five friends rocked by the AIDS epidemic in 1980s London.

LaChanze, Celia Rose Gooding, Peter Gallagher, Kathryn Gallagher & More Join MY FIRST SHOW Dynamic Duos Episodes Catch up on previous episodes of the My First Show podcast featuring Jessie Tyler Ferguson, Cynthia Nixon, Rachel Bloom and more!by BWW News Desk Eva Price (Oklahoma!, Jagged Little Pill) has announced a months worth of Dynamic Duo episodes on her podcast "My First Show," exclusively on Broadway Podcast Network. The podcast is available at BPN.FM/myfirstshow and everywhere podcasts ...

It’s a Sin. Ben Blackall/HBO Max AIDS will kill you. I was taught this in grade school as part of a curriculum that used extreme fear as sex education. I grew up terrified, thinking gay sex meant death. And as a teen who knew he was flagrantly gay, I remember rationalizing the ways I could still lead a happy life (“just mouth stuff and porn”) without dying from having sex with men. Teenage me was a fantastic idiot. But the infuriating thing about this educational approach, and something I...

HBO Maxs Its a Sin Is the Heady, Gut-Wrenching Show You Need to See Queer as Folk’s creator is back with a series about youth, hope, and belonging against the backdrop of the AIDS crisis in London. In the first episode of It’s a Sin, the new Russell T. Davies drama set to debut on HBO Max on February 18, Ritchie Tozer is giddy. He’s moved to London, he’s enrolled in school, and he’s ogling boys — one long-haired figure in particular. As these things go, Ritchie is still a touch shy...

It’s A Sin, we’d recommend reading the following AIDS books on this list. The show by Russell T Davies airs weekly on Fridays on Channel 4 in the UK, with the entire series readily available on 4 On Demand while US viewers will get a chance to watch the show on HBO Max from 18 February. It stars Olly Alexander and follows a group of friends who move into a house together, the ‘pink palace’ and are excited to be young and free in the capital. But their world is turned upside down when a ...

Its a Sin: The People and Events During the HIV/AIDS Outbreak That Inspired the Series 23 Shares Its a Sin, the latest show from multi-award-winning producer Russell T Davies, is a heartbreaking and crucial account of the HIV/AIDS outbreak in the UK in the early 1980s. The series first premiered on Channel 4 in the UK on Jan. 22, and its set to premiere on HBO Max on Feb. 18. Starting in 1981, the show follows a group of young gay men — Richie (played by Olly Alexander), R...

LGBTQ Votes Were Crucial in the 2020 Election wildpixel:Getty Images It goes without saying that no one played Frank Sinatra’s “It Was a Very Good Year” on This Is It’s jukebox this past New Year’s Eve. In these times of social strife, economic woes and a deadly pandemic, even the most ironically inclined would not have dared venture there. On top of everything else, regime assaults on LGBTQ rights made life exasperating. Even in defeat, they continued. A month after th...

Russell T Davies on Its a Sin: Aids was like everything people said about you became true in the shape of a virus 22 Jan, 2021 11:00 PM 16 minutes to read The Times By: Decca Aitkenhead When Russell T Davies was a teenager in Swansea, he heard about a gay sauna in Newport. "I used to think, I could go and have lots and lots of sex in that sauna right now. I was 17, I was a virgin. How horny are you at 17? Youd have sex with a letterbox." He thought about the sauna a lot. Event...

Jim Parsons Wades Into Straight Actors in Gay Roles Debate "Theres definitely a spectrum." January 07 2021 2:18 PM EST Actor Jim Parsons has added his voice to ongoing discussion around who should play gay roles in movies and television.  Boys in The Band, said that “there’s definitely this spectrum” of answers on the issue. “I think the fight, as it were, is not about having only gay people play the gay parts but to ensure that all parts are open to all actors,” he continued. “It...