Love from the Pink Palace: Memories of Love, Loss and Cabaret through the AIDS Crisis, for fans of IT'S A SIN

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Although a factual depiction of the Aids pandemic, Love from the Pink Palace is about love and family and pride and loyalty. It’s Jill, real Jill with all her courage, strength, dignity, honesty, tenacity and love taking us from the pink palace and way beyond in her words with her boys. This book will make you cry and as Jill took the time to educate the reader about the wonderful people who were Colin, Derek, Juan and Dursley - and the many, many others who lost their lives, I knew if I allowed it, I would just become a bawling mess. It read just as a list of famous people that the author knew and with too many people included it was difficult to attach to any of them. But soon rumours were spreading from America about a frightening illness being dubbed the 'gay flu', and Jill and her friends - spirited Juan Pablo, Jae with his beautiful voice, upbeat Dursley, and many others - found their formerly carefree existence now under threat.

I highly recommend this book - it's beautifully written, brings people who should be alive and performing today back to life in a lovely way, and educates the reader brilliantly about a scary time in the world.

It is also an informative and educational read for those of us who want to continue to support the cause and are aware that this fight is not over. Warning to anyone with the slightest resistance to writing about friendships formed through singing show tunes; they will wonder quite what the fuss is about with this book, and will wonder quite where the author is coming from.

But from the tone of the book it seems to me that they were better talkers and better at living in the moment than they were closely observant listeners for each other. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. But what starts a a CV becomes the main part of the book when the show 'Les Miserable' becomes almost a character in itself, the yin to the yang of the A. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.In this moving memoir, IT’S A SIN’s Jill Nalder tells the true story of her life during the AIDS crisis, and that of friends and colleagues, doctors and nurses, activists and fundraisers. They could recognise throughout human history sex had been the cause for so much rumour, denial, anger, shame, and secrecy etc, treachery even. The tender anecdotes and conversations, the dignity and love, the human contact and sense of family are poignant and in reading this book had me laughing out loud one minute and in tears the next. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Far far too many references to theatres and plays, which lost me as someone who is not familiar with that world.

That friend made it to 7 August 1995, painfully close to life-saving triple-drug therapy that would arrive less than 12 months later. Such a gorgeous read about living in the present and making the most of those around you who are meaningful. Every chapter made you think about how hard it must have been for all those poor men who not only had to deal with coming out in a very unforgiving world, but to also tell their family and friends that they were dying of AIDS.As the author notes, a new caseload for doctors requires the renewing of their bedside manner, and adaptation in other ways too. With her band of best friends – of which many were young, talented gay men with big dreams of their own – she grabbed London by the horns: partying with drag queens at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern, hosting cabarets at her glamorous flat, flitting across town to any jobs could get.