I do recall seeing “Longtime Companion” (Samuel Goldwyn Films), directed by Norman Rene and written by Craig Lucas, in the early 1990s, after I had returned from Dallas (where I was living when the epidemic struck) to DC.
The film gets its title from the early refusal of the New
York Times to acknowledge gay lovers as partners, but rather called them “longtime
companions”.
The film covers the growing awareness of the epidemic in the
earliest days, starting in 1981 with the earliest rumors about Kaposi’s
sarcoma. I didn’t actually see the
rumors until I picked up a “This Week in Texas” magazine at a screening of “Making
Love” at Northpark in Dallas in February 1982, and saw mention of the unusual “cancer”.
By late 1982, there were only four cases
in Dallas, but it would explode in late 1983.
The film is set mainly in Manhattan and Fire Island (the
Pine and Cherry Grove) which I had visited often in the 1970s when I lived in the
Cast Iron Building myself.
Full film link is here.
Attribution link for “The Judy Garland Memorial Parkway” between
the Pines and the Grove.
By Dinker022089 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Link
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