NEWS UPDATE: ‘Positive Hell’ and ‘Positively False’ Both to Screen at Bluestockings in New York on Saturday . . . Because of London Ban!

October 20th, 2016

October 20, 2016–Responding to the dropping of the short “AIDS” documentary Positive Hell from London’s Portobello Film Festival last month, New York City gay bookstore Bluestockings will screen the film this coming Saturday, October 22, from 7:00 to 9:30 p.m. (Details HERE; full press release HERE.)

Also to be screened is Positive Hell director and narrator Joan Shenton’s previous film, Positively False: Birth of a Heresy. Barnett J. “Bud” Weiss, an organizer of the former HEAL-New York group, will lead the post-film discussion of this important historical document tracing the AIDS-dissident movement. Continue reading »

Episode 57: Rethinker Discussion in London

January 27th, 2013

David Crowe met with a group of AIDS rethinkers at busy Bar 128 in Notting Hill, London in mid-January, 2013. We apologize for the background noise in this busy location but we are sure you will find the conversation interesting and stimulating.

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Episode 30: John Lauritsen

December 19th, 2010

If you were to ask about the major critics of the first AIDS drug AZT the guest from Episode 29, Dr. Peter Duesberg, would come to mind, but also this week’s guest John Lauritsen. Before criticizing AZT John was one of the leading members of the gay community warning about the omnipresent “gay” drugs known as Poppers or Amyl Nitrite inhalants. John is a thorough and dogged researcher and his articles for “New York Native” are legendary, especially those that were used in the book, “AZT: Poison by Prescription” (out of print but available online).

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