Connect With Us
England, 1987, 35 mins, Colour.
This video radically addresses the politics surrounding AIDS and the media backlash felt by the lesbian and gay communities in the late 1980s. Cultural critics, activists and media commentators wrest the discussion away from the conservatives and place the focus on the experiences, feelings and activities of lesbians and gays who talk frankly about how they have been affected and how they are challenging dominant perceptions of AIDS as a ‘gay plague’.
In examining the prejudices based upon sexuality, the film contextualises this contemporary situation with the history of prejudice based upon racial and social difference and the impact that these oppressive forces have when combined.
Contributors include Simon Watney, Isaac Julien, Sue O’Sullivan and Stuart Marshall.