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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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It’s absolutely shocking that we are in the 21st century and that there is still no cure for this dreadful disease. 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. Beautiful young man after beautiful young man reaching an untimely loss due to a virus that is barely recognisable in the UK today. 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 that their formerly carefree existence now under threat. On a lighter note, I think anyone who likes theatre or anything West End/Broadway would really enjoy this as that is the industry Jill and her friends all work in and there's mentions of loads of different shows as well as some names that people may recognise.

The author is a talented heterosexual woman whose talent for writing songs, singing and performing for the public put her in contact with a society of selectively extrovert gay men and drag artists who wanted nothing more in life than to be on the stage, men who wanted to live their whole lives to be part of a distinctly extrovert, well performed, stagecraft. She is a successful West End actress and was the inspiration behind Jill Baxter's character in Russell T.It is hard to put yourself in the position of Jill or her many friends at the time, but it was life - ups and downs. Nalder details the events of her life in such a beautiful way that it allows you to connect to all the men she speaks about. As the author notes, a new caseload for doctors requires the renewing of their bedside manner, and adaptation in other ways too. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.

That friend made it to 7 August 1995, painfully close to life-saving triple-drug therapy that would arrive less than 12 months later. To do all of that while caring for so many facing end of life trauma and demanding daily care, makes it even more remarkable. Considering the work involved, the is little in the book about her role in West End Cares, her legendary cabaret fundraisers, and the thousands raised for the Crusaid hardship fund. From 1985 onward Jill Nalder talked in her phrase 'liked a cracked record' to describe the frequency of her advice to the young gay men who were her friends about the necessity of safer sex practices, as they were commonly understood.Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously.

For fans of channel four’s ‘It’s a sin’ this is a must read…the book is very different to the show and is heartbreaking, funny, enlightening and shocking. I don’t think I realised at the time due to my age and not being part of the communities worse affected the appalling treatment of the victims of the aids crisis.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.

They could recognise throughout human history sex had been the cause for so much rumour, denial, anger, shame, and secrecy etc, treachery even. 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 she could get.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. Considering this was good for someone who had no context (me), I think that it would be a hit for anyone who is familiar with the author and her scene, and I would recommend the Audible read by Jill with her lovely Welsh accent. My favourite part was that Nalder named any of the journalists who wrote unkind articles during the HIV/AIDS crisis. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

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