Art During the AIDS Crisis - get angry, get horny, get devastated. In this episode, Skyler and Kaylynne discuss some of the most poignant pieces of art that came out of the AIDS epidemic of the 80s and 90s and try not to scream into their microphones. You’re telling me a right-leaning government’s slowed response to a viral pandemic cost millions of lives? Weird, that sounds so unlike them.

Sources mentioned:

Art of the AIDS Crisis - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_of_the_AIDS_Crisis#:~:text=Artists%20involved%20in%20AIDS%20activist,feelings%20of%20longing%20and%20loss.

Remembering artists impacted by the 1980s AIDS crisis - https://artuk.org/discover/stories/remembering-artists-impacted-by-the-1980s-aids-crisis

Resurrecting the Forgotten Art of the AIDS Era - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/17/t-magazine/collectors-gay-artists.html

Art in America : Before and After AIDS Crisis - https://www.widewalls.ch/magazine/art-aids-hiv-america

Facing death from AIDS, Keith Haring kept creating - https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/facing-death-from-aids-keith-haring-kept-creating/16169/

Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Haunting Works of an Artist Afflicted with AIDS - https://www.thecollector.com/felix-gonzalez-torres-haunting-works-aids-artist/

RENT - Look Pretty and Do As Little as Possible: A Video Essay - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0qfFbtIj5w

Falsettos - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsettos

Angels in America - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angels_in_America