![]() The other film of note that addressed the issue was a made-for-television film, An Early Frost, which aired in November 1985. Primarily seen as a ‘gay’ disease, AIDS was either ignored by the mainstream media, or its patients were largely vilified. President Ronald Reagan only – and finally – mentioned the word AIDS about five months before the film’s bow. It was only three and a half years earlier that the acronym “AIDS” was used by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in a Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). When Parting Glances was released in February 1986, the US had by then been in roughly five years of the pandemic. One cannot separate AIDS from Parting Glances, but it manages to thread many different themes into a witty romantic comedy. What is notable about Parting Glances is that although AIDS is an essential detail in the film, it did not dominate the plot. It’s a landmark film in queer cinema, one of the early films to look at the AIDS crisis. ![]() ![]() A gifted talent, Sherwood’s promise was cruelly cut short by his early death in 1990 from AIDS. Parting Glances (1986) is the only completed film of Bill Sherwood’s brief professional career.
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