Love from the Pink Palace: Memories of Love, Loss and Cabaret through the AIDS Crisis, for fans of IT'S A SIN

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You think that we are in a century where the science and technology is considered to be more advanced then it was 100 years ago, you think they would have come up with a cure for HIV. Despite the darkness and despair of parts of the book, Nalder skillfully combines snippets of humour, loads of love and joy and a deep humanity that , despite my tears, kept me reading on.

Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. But soon rumours were spreading from America about a frightening illness being dubbed the 'gay flu', and Jill and her friends - spirited Juan Pablo, Jae with his beautiful voice, upbeat Dursley, and many others - now found their formerly carefree existence under threat. But from the tone of the book it seems to me that they were better talkers and better at living in the moment than they were closely observant listeners for each other. For fans of channel four’s ‘It’s a sin’ this is a must read…the book is very different to the show and is heartbreaking, funny, enlightening and shocking.It’s Jill, real Jill with all her courage, strength, dignity, honesty, tenacity and love taking us from the pink palace and way beyond in her words with her boys. Jill is and was a true inspirational hero and support for a lot of gay men who suffered through the very worst of the AIDs pandemic. A genuinely positive test for HIV meant that their bucket list of things they want to do whilst alive had better be short and they had better be strong whist they could be to complete it.

Jill also informs us about the many advances that have been made since the epidemic which was very useful to know. An important period of world history where the human stories often get lost in the headlines from the time. The frequent mention of so many show tunes and musicals through out the book could have been the lyrics of a list song to me.Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's pageview limit.