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2019
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Sep 17, 2020 · Killing Patient Zero: Directed by Laurie Lynd. With Richard Berkowitz, Richard Bisson, Anita Bryant, Marcus A. Conant. Gaetan Dugas was openly gay. In early 1980s he contracted what was termed "gay cancer".
- (307)
- Documentary, History
- Laurie Lynd
- 2020-09-17
Killing Patient Zero is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Laurie Lynd and released in 2019. [1] The film is a portrait of Gaëtan Dugas, the Canadian man who was one of the earliest diagnosed HIV/AIDS patients in North America, but became incorrectly demonized as "patient zero" for the epidemic after his role in the early story of the ...
- Corey Russell
- Laurie Lynd
- Fadoo Productions
- Laurie Lynd
Jul 25, 2019 · Lynd hopes that, beyond Dugas's true story, audiences of Killing Patient Zero remember — or perhaps even learn — that "a holocaust was allowed to happen to gay men in North America in the ...
- 5 min
- Peter Knegt
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Killing Patient Zero. After the Stonewall riots and at the height of the gay liberation movement in America, an entire generation were busy celebrating their newfound emancipation, unaware of an ...
- (13)
- Fadoo Productions
- Laurie Lynd
May 3, 2019 · “Killing Patient Zero,” which had its world premiere at Hot Docs in Toronto, explores how the idea of a patient zero was amplified – and how Dugas was vilified – via the publisher’s ...
Synopsis. After the Stonewall riots and at the height of the gay liberation movement in America, an entire generation were busy celebrating their newfound emancipation, unaware of an impending epidemic. A disease that seemed determined to wipe out an entire generation of gay men, was largely ignored by politicians and the mainstream media.
- 99 min
