The List Keepers, on the informal efforts to keep track of the toll of AIDS in the theater industry. “Sometime around 1982, McAssey had opened a pocket-size spiral-bound diary and written LOST FRIENDS at the top of a page.”
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Nearly all the male actors I worked with in the 1980s and early 1990s were taken by the plague:
Michael
Loren
Greg
Frank
Rich
CJ
Brian
Steven
There was at least one memorial service every week.
They briefly mention the documentary How to Survive a Plague in this article and I would highly recommend it for anyone who wants to learn more about the AIDS crisis— and see what fierce, fearless activism can achieve.
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