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And the Band Played On (1993) - Uncut Version (Patreon)

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2026-04-04 08:24:22
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2026-08

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Matthew Modine, Alan Alda, Patrick Bauchau, Ian McKellan, Saul Rubinek, Glenne Headly, Ronald Guttman, Richard Gere, Lily Tomlin, Richard Jenkins, Christian Clemenson, Richard Masur, Phil Collins, Steve Martin

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Erin Mileur

Randy Shilts also wrote the books, The Mayor of Castro Street the Life and Times of Harvey Milk, and Conduct Unbecoming Gays, and Lesbians in the US military. If you ever get the chance I highly recommend reading his books. Sadly Shilts himself died of AIDS less than one year after this premiered in 1994.

Erin Mileur

If you’re looking to learn more about the AIDS crisis I’d recommend the first season of the podcast FIASCO.

CB

It was scary to be a young person in the '80s. I remember how hopeless it was because there was no cure. I had a college friend who died from it not long after graduation and that funeral was so strange because everyone was so freaked out.

ScarlettMi

Ronald & Nancy Reagan were absolute monsters who wilfully chose to let people die.

Cramdeon1969

This started my fascination with HBO Movie Content 🎬 🎞 🎥

sharkey197

It will make you feel better to know that the Nobel prize eventually went to the French doctors. They did not include Gallo in the award.

Jeff

I was a teenager in the 80s when the pandemic started, and even though I lived in the San Francisco Bay Area, we really didn't get much news of AIDS in the mainstream press. It wasn't until Rock Hudson's death and the closing of the bathhouses that more people began to take notice. There were still strip clubs open for business, but all sexual activity was closely monitored and safe sex was required. Forty years later, because of the effectiveness of PrEP medication which reduces the risk of contracting HIV from sex by 99%, the ban on bathhouses in San Francisco was repealed. Ironically, this occurred just when COVID was at its worst. Traditional gay bathhouses have still not returned to the city. Richard Gere's character was based on director and choreographer Michael Bennett, who created the Broadway musical "A Chorus Line." He lived longer than Gere's character in the movie, but he did pass away from AIDS in 1987 at the age of 44. A bit of trivia you'll appreciate: one of the main stars of "A Chorus Line" who worked closely with Bennett to create her character was Kelly Bishop, who plays Emily Gilmore on "Gilmore Girls." She won a Tony Award for her performance.

Actuarial Lurker

Although they can now trace early cases to the 1930s, with over 1000 infections prior to his contracting the disease- Gaetan Dugas WAS generally thought to be "patient zero" who as a flight attendant BECAUSE of this book and movie. Later studies found that he may have spread HIV to 40-50 men but was NOT the prime patient.

Andy Schreiber

I remember this time all too well. I lost more friends than I can count, including one of my very closest ones. I spent much of the 80s and 90s involved in protest groups and volunteer work, including facilitating support groups. Ronald Reagan allowed the epidemic to surge for years before he even mentioned the words AIDS or HIV in public. It would have been terrible in any event, but his inaction and the lack of funding made things far worse than they needed to be.

Juley

Your comment about all the actors willing to be in the movie has an interesting back-story. AIDS was terrifying without information on prevention and people with AIDS were so reviled that actors refused to play people with AIDS in films. They wouldn’t even play someone who was gay. To do so would be career suicide because the public would only see them that way in the future and would hate them. For a long time, they couldn’t get this movie made for that reason. One man changed that — Richard Gere. He signed on not only to play a gay man, but to play a gay man with AIDS. When he took that courageous step, everyone in Hollywood flocked to be in the movie. They had to write in tons of bit parts for all of them to play. So even the making of this film demonstrates just how socially unacceptable it was to be gay and how we vilified people with AIDS - even those who played them in films. I was in high school in the early 80s and college from 1983-1987. No one ever told us we were at risk. Even when we learned about AIDS, we were told you couldn’t get it if you weren’t gay. We did what all college students did following the sexual revolution. We partied and slept around without a care. The condom industry was on its last legs at that point and most of the manufacturers had gone out of business. NO ONE used condoms. We had birth control pills. Why would anyone use a condom. It was considered a relic of the 1950s. And you would certainly never ask a partner about their sexual history! Often you didn’t even ask them their last name! Around 1988-1989 (after Reagan left office and AIDS was rampant in all populations), there was a massive prevention campaign encouraging condoms and asking about sexual histories. I remember going back as an alum to a football game. My friends and I overheard a group of female students in front of us talking about conversations they’d had with potential partners and watched them blow up condoms for the crowd to tap in the air like balloons. We were in shock. We couldn’t have imagined such a scenario even a year or two earlier. It was like everything about sex had changed overnight. Of course, those students were doing what we should have been doing, what we would have done if we had known. I’ve lost friends to AIDS. I have friends who’ve been lucky enough to live with HIV for 40 years, though it’s not easy. Reagan did a lot of bad things to the country (I won’t go into it here). But ignoring AIDS is something I will never forgive him for.