My boyfriend recommended that we watch And the Band Played On together. It looked like a good movie, but I knew I wanted to read the book first. Initially I was intimidated by the lengthy six hundred-some-odd pages, but I eventually bought And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts. Originally published in 1987, I read the 20th Anniversary edition. I was quite young when AIDS broke out in the United States, and the epidemic has never affected me personally. I vaguely remember […]
“Don’t offend the gays and don’t inflame the homophobes.”
And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts