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randys1

(16,286 posts)
Tue Jun 3, 2014, 07:42 PM Jun 2014

"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.

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"The Normal Heart" movie has shamed me to no end... (Original Post) randys1 Jun 2014 OP
I am not sure if I want to watch it yeoman6987 Jun 2014 #1
I lived thru it. Its sad (and angering) for everyone who has an iota of compassion, gay or not. Mika Jun 2014 #2
I could not watch it. DURHAM D Jun 2014 #3
So Ned Weeks is fictional but based on Kramer, the author...i think that is what i found randys1 Jun 2014 #4
Watching it now..... Marrah_G Jun 2014 #5
Let the shame fall on those who really deserve it dickthegrouch Jun 2014 #6
 

yeoman6987

(14,449 posts)
1. I am not sure if I want to watch it
Tue Jun 3, 2014, 07:44 PM
Jun 2014

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)
2. I lived thru it. Its sad (and angering) for everyone who has an iota of compassion, gay or not.
Tue Jun 3, 2014, 07:53 PM
Jun 2014


DURHAM D

(32,595 posts)
3. I could not watch it.
Tue Jun 3, 2014, 08:19 PM
Jun 2014

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)
4. So Ned Weeks is fictional but based on Kramer, the author...i think that is what i found
Tue Jun 3, 2014, 09:27 PM
Jun 2014

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)
5. Watching it now.....
Sat Jun 7, 2014, 11:39 PM
Jun 2014

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

(3,151 posts)
6. Let the shame fall on those who really deserve it
Fri Jun 13, 2014, 04:13 PM
Jun 2014

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.

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