Due to technical difficulties, the location for tonight's Out of the Closet and Onto the Screen LGBT film series screening of the documentary “How to Survive a Plague” has been moved to Williams 225 at 7 pm.
How to Survive a Plague” is the story of how activism and innovation turned AIDS from a death sentence into a manageable condition. Despite having no scientific training, these self-made activists infiltrated the pharmaceutical industry and helped identify promising new drugs, moving them from experimental trials to patients in record time. Using a treasure trove of archival footage from the 1980s and ’90s, filmmaker David France puts the viewer smack in the middle of the controversial actions, the heated meetings, the heartbreaking failures and the exultant breakthroughs of heroes in the making.
Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, “How to Survive a Plague” was honored with a Peabody Award, GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Documentary and Gotham Independent Film Award.
Held each year on December 1, World AIDS Day is an opportunity for people worldwide to unite in the fight against HIV, show their support for people living with HIV and commemorate people who have died.
The showing is part of the Out of the Closet and Onto the Screen series, sponsored by the Ithaca College Center for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Education, Outreach, and Services. For more information, visit www.ithaca.edu/lgbt.
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