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Related: About this forum"The Normal Heart" movie has shamed me to no end...
The play now an HBO movie
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1684226/
Saw me sending an email to a close friend which said
"Watching the Normal Heart on HBO, Ruffalo and Jim Parsons and the rest are terrific!
And man, what a bunch of crap the Gay folk had to deal with in the 80's.
My friend wrote back to inform me he could not watch it and relive it as he knew many affected as an actor in Hollywood and was dealing with it daily back then.
I had never dealth with it living where I did and being in my head all about me etc...
I was shamed to know that the entire history and pain escaped me completely.
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)I was born in 1969 so I did not go through anything like this, but it would still be very sad to watch as a gay guy. Plus I can't stand Jim Parsons. I might wait until it is on TV someday to watch it but now I don't think I could do it.
Mika
(17,751 posts)DURHAM D
(32,610 posts)I tried but it called up too many memories. One of the first people to die in NY was a close friend, followed soon by many other friends on both coasts as Reagan twiddled his thumbs.
randys1
(16,286 posts)I am a fan of "Big Bang Theory", i became one to look at Kaley Cuoco, I admit, but I came for the boobs and stayed for the science and comedy...
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)Very hard to look back at the 80's. I know it's still out there and we are still losing people, but those were very dark days.
dickthegrouch
(3,174 posts)The bureaucrats who were too stupid to see the long-term consequences.
The politicians too afraid to speak out for a reviled group.
The bigots who thought gays/Haitians/transfusion recipients didn't matter.
The CDC who couldn't anticipate transmission between populations.
The religiously insane who called it our punishment.
No Gay person should attach any shame whatever to what happened in those days.