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Take a journey with us through close to 40 years worth of TV stories about HIV and AIDS.
The genre, then being revolutionized by NBCsSt.
Elsewhere,was tailor-made to deal with story lines about the misconceptions about HIV and AIDS.
In many ways, that second seasonSt.
If you have AIDS, youre sick, you need help.
And thats all that matters.
And thats why were here.
Instead, it was a deadly virus that makes no moral or sexual distinctions.
And its making its way very slowly toward Main Street.
Broadcast networks were soon bringing more stories about AIDS on Main Street to viewers everywhere.
Not that television wasnt also fueling those fears.
But there remained the implicit admission that only certain stories could make it to air.
Such unfairness ought never to have happened to such a sweetheart.
Who was deemed innocent?
Who was deemed worthy of our compassion?
TakeABCsRock Hudsonfilm from 1990.
What setAngels in Americaapart was its focus less on individual stories than on an afflicted collective.
All three were on the same show,FXs period dramaPose.
The figure signals more than a dearth of representation.
Which is, perhaps, why their complementary journeys on that FX show still feel so urgent and necessary.
