The Lesbians Who Led the AIDS Response

05/22/24 • 45 min

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Jean Carlomusto is an Emmy-nominated documentarian. But in the 1980s, she was a scrappy filmmaker documenting the AIDS crisis for ACT UP. She reflects on the impact that lesbians like her had in responding to the deadly epidemic that was mostly affecting gay men.

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But We Loved - The Lesbians Who Led the AIDS Response

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What We Loved is a production of iHeart Podcasts and the Outspoken podcast Network.

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People are chanting and at leaf flitting, and all of a sudden, a bunch of them got in the middle of the road, sat there with their signs and holding hands with each other in the middle of Wall Street.

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They stopped traffic. They were doing a die in. Basically