I am not reproducing everything in Saturday Nov. 27th's Globe and Mail,
(National Edition) because it devoted almost the entire Arts+Books section
to AIDS in honour of World AIDS Day, identifying the articles with the sub-
headline AIDS AND THE ARTS.  However, in various articles and columns it
examined the reactions of the cultural community to AIDS, the absence of
gay men when the media talks about the 'innocent victims' of AIDS, John
Greyson's _Zero Patience_, events across Canada marking World AIDS Day and
Day Without Art, author Edmund White, and art exhibitions by gay artists
Regan Morris and Stephen Andrews.  I will probably get around to posting
some of them one by one if I have the time.

I will, however, reproduce one article, because the loss strikes close to
my heart as an actor/musician and writer.  May these men and women rest in
peace.

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Counting the cost

Among those the arts community has lost to AIDS are:

Alexander Wilson, gardener/journalist
Martin Bartlett, composer
Peter Mark Schifter, theatre/TV director
Christopher Gillis, choreographer
Jay Scott, critic/author
Norman Andersson, bass-baritone
Ariel Rubstein, soprano
Eric Steiner, director
Ray Sharkey, actor
Larry Lillo, director
William Dendy, architectural historian
Louis Falco, choreographer/director
Pascal de Duve, writer
Alkis Klonaridis, art dealer
Rudolf Nureyev, dancer
Liberace, pianist
Michael Bidner, artist
Craig Russell, actor/impersonator
John Hirsh, director
Rene Payant, critic/historian
Brad Davis, actor
Constantin Patsalas, choreographer
Paul J. Reynolds, director/producer
Richard Hunt, actor
Cyril Collard, writer
Tony Richardson, director
Glenn White, dancer
William Tritt, pianist
Jack Pollock, artist/dealer
Freddie Mercury, singer
Myreon Taylor, dancer
Rock Hudson, actor
Allan Falconer, sculptor
Nelson Carry, photographer
Louis Comtois, artist
Amanda Blake, actress
Rene Highway, choreographer
Howard Ashman, lyricist
Anthony Perkins, actor
Keith Haring, artist
Robert Mapplethorpe, photographer
Clark Tippet, choreographer
Scott Burton, sculptor
Curt McDowell, filmmaker
Norman Walford, OAC [Ontario Arts Centre] director
Peter Allen, singer/songwriter
Juan Antonio, choreographer
Tim Jocelyn, artist
Joseph Papp, director
Peter McGehee, writer
William Carter, choreographer
David Mankaba, musician
Gordon Montador, publisher
John Wilson, dancer
Leonard Bernstein, conductor
Cecil Youngfox, artist
Burton Taylor, dancer
Reynald Rabu, choreographer
Denholm Elliott, actor
Perry Ellis, fashion designer
Tim Weingard, dancer
Michael Bennett, choreographer
Paul Jacobs, pianist
Charles Ludlum, playwright
Charles Ward, dancer
Barry Ingram, Ballet B.C. [British Columbia] director
Jay Phillips, artist
Gregory Huffman, dancer
Halston, fashion designer
Jorge Donn, dancer
Michael Lynch, writer
Arnie Zane, choreographer
Ian Horvath, dancer
Robert Reed, actor
Richard Pochinko, performer
Scott Ross, harpsichordist
Harvey Chusid, arts writer and editor
Gary de Loatch, dancer
Robert Angelo Dicello, dancer
Huck Snyder, stage designer
Art Bauman, choreographer
Jeffrey Kirk, dancer
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