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Article: Lying About the Gay '90s; An AIDs Activist Says `Philadelphia' Is Worse Than No Film at All
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- January 9, 1994
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Philadelphia" is a heartbreakingly mediocre movie: dishonest,
and often legally, medically and politically inaccurate. It saddens
me to say that I'd rather people simply not see it at all.
For 12 years, millions of people - gays, people with AIDS,
those with HIV infection, their families and friends - have been
desperately waiting for a "major" movie to deal with this plague in
a mature fashion. Other tragedies - the Holocaust, the Kennedy
assassination, Vietnam - have had their films. Why not AIDS? Oh, we
knew why not: because AIDS is destroying certain communities others
would just as soon see die. There's no audience for this kind of
subject, we've been told over and over. So for the ...