Daniela: [This role's a] lifelong bachelor, but at least he doesn't die from AIDS!
Hernando: So he does die.
"Gay movies are mostly boy meets boy or boy meets fatal disease"
—Joe Ahearne, discussing
B&B
B&B"The other day I went to the video store and rented Longtime Companion, And the Band Played On, Philadelphia, and An Early Frost. The clerk asked me to pay cash in advance. I think that's mean!"
Nurse: Do you engage in unprotected sex?
Anwar: Every film I’ve seen with a gay person ends with them having sex and dying of AIDS. I don’t wanna die. So, yeah, I always use a condom.
Anwar: Every film I’ve seen with a gay person ends with them having sex and dying of AIDS. I don’t wanna die. So, yeah, I always use a condom.
Gary: And so this is the end of our story
And everyone is dead from AIDS
It took from me my best friend
My only true pal
My only bright star.
(He died of AIDS!)
And everyone is dead from AIDS
It took from me my best friend
My only true pal
My only bright star.
(He died of AIDS!)
When someone dies so young, the pity of it and the waste of it touch us all. But when he or she dies of AIDS, there should be anger as well as pity, and a resolve to fight this insidious disease and the prejudice it arouses, and not to rest until we have a cure.
—Carl, The Laying on of Hands
"When we first met, I thought you were gay."
"What, cos I'm English?"
"Uh-uh. It's because you seemed to know so many people who were dead."
"What, cos I'm English?"
"Uh-uh. It's because you seemed to know so many people who were dead."
—The Sandman: The Wake
