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" I have AIDS! / "
Sky Gilbert
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BL
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698519
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b520708
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| Main Entry
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Gilbert, Sky,1952-
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| Title & Author
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I have AIDS! /\ Sky Gilbert
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| Publication Statement
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Toronto :: Playwrights Canada Press,, c2010
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66 p. :: port. ;; 22 cm
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| ISBN
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0887549063
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: 9780887549069
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| Abstract
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When stand-up comic Prodon Slamzeck tells his lover Vidor that he has aids, it barely interrupts their dinner. And why should it? What was once a death sentence is now no more than a chronic condition, and most gay men deal with aids with much less melodrama than they did years ago. Following him through the five stages of acceptance-- Denial, Partying, Loss of Control, Religious Conversion, and Acceptance--the play pops in and out of monologues with Prodon and into scenes with Lady Booty, an outrageous drag queen, Ron, a man who has made aids his personal religion, and the ever supportive Vidor, each giving their own advice for how to take the news. A black comedy like no other, I Have AIDS! is a play about gay men who are neither tragic or sad, and we are led to laugh with them, not at them
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AIDS (Disease), Drama
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| Dewey Classification
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C811/.54
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PR9199.3.G5248I2 2010
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