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AIDS and Its Metaphors is a 1989 work of critical theory by Susan Sontag. In this companion book to her Illness as Metaphor (1978), Sontag extends her arguments about ...
The famous photo of David Kirby dying from AIDS next to his father, sister, and niece. David Lawrence Kirby (December 6, 1957 – May 5, 1990) [1] was an American HIV/AIDS activist, and the subject of a photograph taken at his deathbed by Therese Frare. The image was published in Life magazine, [2] which called it the "picture that changed the ...
The AIDS-as-Holocaust metaphor was especially common in French AIDS activist groups. ACT UP-Paris was active in drawing parallels between a well known example of official indifference to mass death in a specific community (the Holocaust) and applied that to the perceived indifference of the government to the AIDS crisis, which affected ...
Jared Leto took home best supporting actor in 2014 for AIDS drama "Dallas Buyers Club." But while appearing on “The Late Late Show With James Corden” in 2021, the singer casually revealed that ...
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal is a novel by American writer Christopher Moore, published in 2002. In this work the author seeks to fill in the "lost" years of Jesus through the eyes of Jesus' childhood pal, " Levi bar Alphaeus who is called Biff".
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt is a 1989 American documentary film that tells the story of the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt. [2] Narrated by Dustin Hoffman, with a musical score written and performed by Bobby McFerrin, the film focuses on several people who are represented by panels in the Quilt, combining personal reminiscences with archive footage of the subjects, along with ...
The Pentagon has spent more than $14 trillion since 9/11, with up to 50% going to defense contractors, Brown University's Cost of War project found.
The late Paul Reubens, aka Pee-wee Herman, is defining himself after years of speculation about the star's sexuality.. Reubens reveals he was gay in the new two-part docuseries “Pee-wee as ...