Homosexuality In Tony Kushner's Angels In America

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Love is something so simple, but sweet. If you love someone you give up time for them and also care for them. Having an intimate connection is love, they are more than just a best friend but they are everything. Love is shared between two individuals not depending on the sex type. Love can be shared between man and man and also women and women not just man and women. If they are attracted to one another and have a deep affection. Homosexuality has become not the norm but not as rare to see nowadays. seeing two same sex people hold hands in public is not shocking. Tony Kushner goes into the depths of disease that comes with homosexuality in Angels in America. On June 5th, 1981 is where it all started. The first couple cases of HIV/AIDS where found from five different healthy young men. They all had PCP which is a pneumonia that was uncertainty rare at the time. They found that this unusual infection was attack the immune system. Also CPC was found in two areas New York and California. Kaposi Sarcoma is a type of cancer also known as KSIO. Which doctors found that “it firsts appears in spots” (Altman 1). Also known as a lesion. Doctors have only seen that cancer has only “affected men above the age of 51” (Altman 1). Meaning that it was unusual seeing young men under the age of 51 getting cancer. …show more content…

In part one millennium tony Kushner sets up homosexuality relation with two main characters in scene four when prior is in a bad mood and louis asks him why he is sad and louis assumes that it is because of his cat that is missing. It wasn’t the cat at all louis showed him what was wrong when he “rolls up his sleeve, shows Louis a dark-purple spot” (Kushner 27). As they continue to argue louis thinks it no big deal and it is just a blood vessel. Prior tells louis that is not a blood vessel but it is “the wine-dark kiss of the angel death” (Kushner 27). Which is skin lesions from his

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