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The film is a portrait of Gaëtan Dugas, the Canadian man who was one of the earliest diagnosed HIV/AIDS patients in North America, but became incorrectly demonized as "patient zero" for the epidemic after his role in the early story of the disease was used to illustrate contact tracing in Randy Shilts's 1987 book And the Band Played On.
Sep 17, 2020 · Killing Patient Zero: Directed by Laurie Lynd. With Richard Berkowitz, Richard Bisson, Anita Bryant, Marcus A. Conant. Gaetan Dugas was openly gay. In early 1980s he contracted what was termed "gay cancer". He provided blood samples and 72 names of his former sex partners.
Jul 25, 2019 · Gaëtan Dugas was a handsome Air Canada flight attendant who passed away at the age of 31 of complications from AIDS on March 30, 1984. For decades, he was widely regarded as "patient zero," the...
Page 1 of 2, 6 total items. Page 1 of 5, 9 total items. After the Stonewall riots and at the height of the gay liberation movement in America, an entire generation were busy celebrating their ...
Dugas was demonized for his promiscuity and wrongfully identified as patient zero. Gaetan Dugas, who grew up in Quebec City, was a Quebec flight attendant, who was openly and proudly gay, and he liked to wear makeup.
When a new, deadly virus spreads across North America at an alarming rate, one man is singled out for bringing the disease to the continent.
May 3, 2019 · Laurie Lynd's film explores how Gaetan Dugas, a gay man from Quebec, was wrongly blamed as the origin of HIV/AIDS and how the book "And The Band Played On" sensationalized the story. The film features interviews with Dugas' friends, epidemiologists, cultural commentators, and the author Randy Shilts.
