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Strange Fruit: A Conversation With 'Pose' Co-Creator Steven Canals
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Length:
29 minutes
Released:
Jul 20, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
The FX series "Pose" features the largest LGBTQ cast on television. Five series regulars are transgender.
The setting is 1987 New York City -- specifically the ballroom scene and the trans community. So it's basically like if they made a TV show out of "Paris Is Burning." Needless to say, we love it.
This week we talk to Steven Canals, who co-created the show along with Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk.
The setting is 1987 New York City -- specifically the ballroom scene and the trans community. So it's basically like if they made a TV show out of "Paris Is Burning." Needless to say, we love it.
This week we talk to Steven Canals, who co-created the show along with Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk.
Released:
Jul 20, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Strange Fruit #47: Meet Gert McMullen, Original Seamstress of the AIDS Memorial Quilt: To speak to Gert McMullen about the origins of [the AIDS Memorial Quilt](http://www.aidsquilt.org/) is to go back to a scary, sad time in LGBTQ history: San Francisco in the early 1980s. "People were terrified," she explains, "because they didn't know what was happening. People were just dying. They were trying to figure out, why were these gay men dying?" Gert lost many of her friends in the early days of the AIDS epidemic, and thanks to the fear and stigma surrounding the disease, she was often their only visitor. "You would go into the hospitals and there was nobody there and the nurses would put you in a moon suit, basically, to walk in there, because they didn't know what was going to happen," she recalls. No one understood how the disease was transmitted, so many people were afraid to come into close contact with their afflicted loved ones - even during their final days. "I remember a friend of by Strange Fruit