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— Tue, Nov 28, 2006 —
Good Or Bad, 3 Needles Breaks New Ground
Global AIDS Crisis Takes New Cinematic Direction
A few weeks back we posted a story on the forthcoming 3 Needles, Thom Fitzgerald's cinematic foray into the global AIDS crisis.
While we haven't had a chance to see it, our friend Richard from Proceed at Your Own Risk finagled his way into a screening. In true blogger fashion, he's got more than a few thoughts on what may be an Oscar contender. One thing Richard notes, which we find particularly intriguing, is that the movie has no gay characters. While some people may guffaw at this discrepancy, Richard sees things a bit differently:
...Refreshingly this film has no gay characters and no gay story lines. That will likely drive the homophobes crazy since they seem incapable of moving past the dead-headed notion that AIDS is a gay disease. In fact, 3 Needles leaves one with the powerful idea that the association between homosexuality and AIDS is downright idiotic.
We'd never say the association's idiotic. Contrived, hackneyed and downright misleading, yes. Idiotic? No, not really. Still, it's nice to hear a movie on HIV doesn't fall back on the old "gay suffering" trope so often exploited. Because, really, haven't the gays suffered enough?
"3 NEEDLES: AN EPIC MASTERPIECE FOR A GLOBAL TRAGEDY" [Proceed at Your Own Risk]
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Not only is the lack of gay characters refreshing, it's accurate. If the film is about the global AIDS crisis, it make perfect sense. Homosexuals only represent a fraction of those with HIV/AIDS globally. In fact, at this year's International AIDS Conference in Toronto, men who have sex with men (the term used in HIV/AIDS instead of gay) was almost absent in comparison to the focus on women and impoverished peoples.
This whole "AIDS crisis" is manufactored lies and deception. When will queers wake up to this AIDS scam???
God, this stuff makes me want to vomit--AIDS IS a gay disease! In the First World, AIDS disproportionately affects homosexual men. That is a FACT. Just like Tay-Sachs is a Jewish disease and Sickle-Cell is a black disease.
The line put forward by AIDS organization and gay rights groups that everyone is equally at risk is not only false, its dangerous. It doesn't mean we deserve AIDS, or that no one else should care, it just means that homos have to be extra-special careful to practice safe sex.
All this stuff about "Global AIDS" is just a way for homophobes and wishy-washy celebrities to act like they care about AIDS without people thinking they care about queers.