"It's a Sin": Drama at the beginning of the AIDS crisis

[@MrKit9]

I was a young man living in Key West at the time. I lost over a hundred friends, neighbors, co workers and others. I am scarred for life. I will NEVER recover. It was one of my first lessons learning that many people are hate filled sociopaths.

[@deedeewinfrey3181]

Me too, I lost alot of friends. I'm sorry that you had to experience all of the hate.

[@MrKit9]

@@deedeewinfrey3181 We'll make it together.

[@rock-n-rollfoodie]

Kit … hate filled sociopaths who turned into Republicans

[@FloorEncer]

@@rock-n-rollfoodie Tony Kushner in one of his plays[Angels in America/Perestroika] had a character say, "Reagan's children." William F. Buckley wanted there to be tattooing on the thigh/groin of the infected.

[@rock-n-rollfoodie]

@@FloorEncer … that’s crazy talk

[@Mia7189]

I cannot recommend 'It's A Sin' enough. What an emotional roller-coaster ride! So far, the best thing I've watched this year. LA!!!

[@rcasey81]

It was such an amazing Series.

[@alyssawoodward2974]

La ❤️

[@glennstone723]

Episode 3....😭😭😭😭 La!

[@deerheart87]

La !

[@Donnie-Lee-Gringo]

I was a closeted gay Mormon boy at BYU in Utah in 1981. In 1982 I went home to San Francisco California, and came out of the closet. By 1983, I was convinced I would be dead soon. I knew dozens and dozens of young men die in the 1980s in the SF CA Bay Area. But it’s 2021, I am still here. How and why I survived, I do not know. So looking forward to this mini series.

[@christianruiz5385]

This series takes place in London but it still captured the terrible way that AIDS took so many lives the same way it did in America, Neil did an amazing job, I saw this in January so not sure why they are saying it just came out, the series has been out since this January

[@MS-pi4um]

Pride month spotlight maybe? Idk.

[@rmy19104]

My cousin to whom I adored and miss so much, died from Aids but in her eulogy was reported that she died from pneumonia. She was not gay, she was newly married to an ex IV drug user turned counselor. Which is how they met, because you see my cousin had her doctorate in psychology at the treatment facility from where they both worked, but at that time in the early 90's no one with Aids was associated with straight people. Aids was still considered the gay disease and because of that the family made the decision to state pneumonia and not Aids, my aunt (her mother)said Rhonda had done so much wonderful and great things in her young life that she did not want her to to be remembered in negative light. Seems like a lifetime ago, miss you Cuz, you are still my favorite person.

[@LloydAntonyLB]

I remember turning 21 and read the words, “ gay cancer” on front page of the newspaper 📰

[@troygaspard6732]

It's good to hear it became the the most binged series in Britain. It's their history, especially their city of London. Neil Patrick Harris is right about Davies ability to draw compelling characters.

[@freeroamtraveler]

Lydia West is absolutely brilliant in this!

[@glennstone723]

Yes she is.

[@valeriaepifani6802]

This series is a masterpiece! Everyone needs to watch it. And give all the awards to RTD and Keeley Hawes! #La!

[@wolfe4683]

"all the gay characters are portrayed by gay actors" ok, now take my money

[@rcasey81]

Such an amazing Series. I feel like this truly captured this time in history. Amazing!!!

[@davidhalley9795]

I had reservations watching this but I ended up binging the entire series. It was like watching my twenties all over again. It was a good night of refection for me. Even though I didn't have a lot of people close to me who fell victim to HIV/AIDS my boyfriend at the time found out he was HIV+ a couple years into our relationship. His brother died of AIDS during the early years leading my boyfriend to more drinking and drugging. It was a miracle he survived the hardest years until about a year ago. We're better as people to a degree but the hate back then is no different from what we're seeing today. It's all taught from home. We all need to remember the dark times in history to go forward.

[@johnedwardjones999]

Very turbulent and sad time. One day a friend at the gym was healthy and then dying a month later. Called "a sin" it started in Africa as I recalled when the virus jump from apes...So remember my LA MD and friend Dr Pearl F McBroom inviting me to have lunch in '82 at a Marina del Rey Restaurant to discuss HIV/AIDS. There were men on the streets hollering and crying, "I have aids." No one knew what to do.. One of my clients was ill, not getting better and Pearl saw him immediately then educated me.

[@michellec7677]

Loved, Loved LOVED "It's a Sin" and was so excited to see this on Sunday Morning!

[@pseminario4279]

it was a beautiful show... can't recommend it enough!

[@Mssipequeen]

I have watched this . IT WAS AMAZING !!!! I waS JUST A KID WHEN THIS HAPPENED AND I REMEMBER .... I don't think I understood exactly at the time ...

[@hillaryroberts3623]

Love what you write and how you write it. Educate.

[@Ed-uz6em]

This could’ve been so different had the fantatical right hadn’t created this as such a good versus bad thing.

[@robinshempert39]

I hate that so many good shows are on pay channels. I cant afford them and so miss good shows like this until years later

[@tracy_en6372]

Its on All 4

[@angelamcgrath948]

Olly Alexander was brilliant 🥰🥰🥰

[@BelleOmbreGrey]

What is up with Neal Patrick Harris' hands 4:36 ?

[@rumblefish9]

I think its foundation. His face foundation is a different color to the rest of his body.

[@ltfringr]

I don't think we can say Jill is straight we never actually know

[@Clintsessentials]

This director is spot on! I cannot stand, a time ago, when only presumed hetero actors would play gay characters!

[@rumblefish9]

Just because actors are straight doesn't mean they cannot understand a gay character. One of my favorite movies happens to be Maurice - produced and directed by Ismail Merchant and James Ivory who were both gay. All 3 leads were straight but wonderfully played. Actors are actors. Its their job to translate a character. Similarly, an actor being gay doesn't exclude them from playing straight characters. Plenty of gay actors have made careers out of playing straight characters. NPH himself has made a fortune playing an extremely straight character.

[@Clintsessentials]

@@rumblefish9 And not very well...just with stereotypes...

[@patritter2235]

Do you think most people will get it? Corvid 19 is very similar but is still being handled badly by some. Masks vs condoms

[@KEMET1971]

Casting a gay actor assuming that they will understand what you are trying to convey is assuming that all gay people are the same with the same experiences and the same understandings. Just because an actor is straight does not exclude him from wholly understanding the emotions and humanity of a gay character.

[@erin_3569]

That's not just about "emotions and humanity". Being queer is being shamed and marginalized

[@KEMET1971]

@@erin_3569 Are you saying only Queer people experience shame and marginalization?

[@jiminykripes4937]

I wonder what the cdc really knew or know about this disease.

[@rumblefish9]

The CDC released its first ever report on the then emerging disease on june 1981. Dr. Fauci has been at the forefront of HIV and AIDS research since the very start, so maybe research on that. The Reagan administration pretty much tried to disregard the CDC's report and downplayed the epidemic.

[@LMDinNC]

And the Band Played On maps out the early stages of the spread of HIV/AIDS.

[@MiriamLove366]

That last comment makes 0 sense.

[@MrGTO86]

You're right. It's illogical.

[@kwebster62]

I'm not sure, but I think he's saying that people once avoided using the word "aids", and instead said "My uncle died of cancer" to avoid the aids stigma. I think he's saying he's proud that they have been able to make aids less of a stigma (?).

[@MrGTO86]

@@kwebster62 That's not what he said. The way you put it is better though.

[@debbiecooper1677]

oh looks good.

[@christiphergarmendia8196]

It not entertaining it real life

[@michelebriere9569]

Davies has a bad habit of frosting off his shows on someone else when he gets tired of it. Usually at the height of a show's popularity.

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[@jacobstopper3804]

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[@bbustin1290]

It is a sin .... perfectly titled

[@hollitheexaltedempress6957]

This is a plain display that you are still playing games. It's clearly a sign, and enough to get me to discontinue to watch this program. You care nothing about the sins committed to African Americans.

[@gruweldaad]

wtf are you talking about?

[@mrdr0161]

What?

[@florinest]

HIV and AIDS as entertainment? Living through it in real time was quite enough. NO THANK YOU!

[@rumblefish9]

Young people of today don't know how difficult it was at that time. They need to be reminded. All of the things they take for granted now was because of the work HIV and AIDS activists at that time have done.

[@mrdr0161]

It's not like they're making fun of it

[@kyleb5589]

It was perfectly gentle in its depiction. An absolute smash hit in the uk watched by millions and shone a light on a lost generation of gay men. It was less entertainment and more an education of the people we lost

[@florinest]

@@mrdr0161 Who mentioned they were making fun??

[@florinest]

@@kyleb5589 it's an entertainment production that helps to instruct. It's not a college-level course. i do hope they learn something.