We’ve spent the last week putting up histories and resources on the context of the early AIDS epidemic.
Visit our archive for more information on women and AIDS, people of color and the HIV epidemic, the controversies around safe sex, how AIDS activism changed medical care, and just a few of the artists whose work was shaped by the epidemic. And more on Larry Kramer, activist and artist, as well.
Now that you’ve seen the movie, we want your input too. What are your questions? What can you add to the conversation?
We’ve already had some great discussion with knowledgeable commenters about AIDS activism and the disability rights movement, and learned the story of a Normal Heart performance 25 years ago in Missouri that led to local controversy and even arson.
We’d love to know what confused you, what enraged you, what you want to learn more about, and what you in turn can teach us.
HBO’s adaptation of The Normal Heart airs tonight. We’ll be watching, and we hope you will be too.
We’ve collected these resources over the last week—with lots of help—in hopes of providing more context to the story of the early AIDS epidemic than what we’ll see on the screen.
But it doesn’t stop there.
Please, help us spread the word about normalheart-history by reblogging this and our other posts.
Encourage anyone who’s watching the movie to ask us anything about the people and stories portrayed in the film.
And submit your own story about the epidemic so we can post that, too.
