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How to Survive a Plague
For shockingly real images of protests, look no further than the documentary How to Survive a Plague, director David France’s examination of the AIDS epidemic, and the rise of activist groups like ACT UP. France inter cuts archive footage of activists like Peter Staley and Larry Kramer raising Hell over government inaction to fight HIV with eyewitness accounts from fellow protesters, as well as scientists studying the disease. Stirring and educational, How to Survive a Plague recalls the LGBT community’s most dire fight. While the film does not make a point of it, the stark contrast between Reagan and H.W. Bush’s dismissal of the disease strikes a horrifying contrast with contemporary panics over single cases of diseases like Zika or Ebola will churn viewers’ stomachs. How to Survive a Plague looks at a community staring death in the face, and refusing to back down.
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