An Analysis Of Angels In America

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New York. 1985. The height of the AIDS epidemic and a conservative Reagan administration. Prior discovers he is positive, a certain death sentence, which his boyfriend Louis struggles to come to terms with. Joe is a closeted Mormon man who is mentored by the equally closeted Roy Cohn - a mentor of Trump’s. Joe’s relationship with his wife Harper is rapidly deteriorating as he battles with his identity at odds with his faith. Harper ventures off into a series of vallium-induced dreams and as Prior’s condition declines, he is the recipient of a series of unearthly visits and surreal visions. When Angels in America premiered in the early 1990’s, same-sex marriage was still largely unrecognised and wouldn’t be legalised in Australia for another