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administration through the use of archive footage of Reagan and members of his administration, the medical community's action in the face of the burgeoning health crisis, and the earliest attempts within the gay community to organize around the AIDS issue through the actions of activists, such as
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Along with these personal stories, the film reviews the history of the NAMES Project, and shows the process of creating quilt panels. It also documents the response — or perceived lack of it — to the onset of the AIDS epidemic by the
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can be easily passed off as the soundtrack to the film, and it includes the film's theme song, "Common Threads". The album reached number 146 on the
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commander Tracy Torrey, who became his own storyteller as well, for he succumbed to the disease and was memorialized in the course of filming.
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Jeffrey Sevcik, a gay man; his story is told by his partner, film critic and historian
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by Cindy Ruskin (writer), Matt Herron (photographs) and Deborah Zemke (design).
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The film relates the lives of five people memorialized with panels:
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in 1990. This was the second Oscar for producer/director
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Index


Rob Epstein
Jeffrey Friedman
Bill Couturié
Dustin Hoffman
Jean de Segonzac
Bobby McFerrin
Direct Cinema
documentary film
NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt
Dustin Hoffman
Bobby McFerrin
AIDS
National Mall
Washington, D.C.
Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights
HBO
Dr. Tom Waddell
Gay Games
hemophiliac
African-American
intravenous drug
Vito Russo
Washington, D.C.
U.S. Navy
Reagan
KS
Bobbi Campbell
Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation
Gay Men's Health Crisis

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