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Reading the first half and you’re shocked about how much of the It’s A Sin story arc is based on Jill’s very own experience – if Russell T Davies wasn’t her bestie, hadn’t written the foreword to his book and created a part based on her and a part for her in the show, Nalder would have every right to sue. 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. There is also humour in the tragedy as different selves are revealed in the deaths of certain gay men than they revealed in their lives. Beautiful young man after beautiful young man reaching an untimely loss due to a virus that is barely recognisable in the UK today.
As 'mother hen' she relays very well the disappointment of the young gay men who don't know how to respond to their parents' disappointment in their children's new found honesty with their feelings. Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's pageview limit. 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. But the inability to suppress same sex desire is more complex than either parent or young man can understand, but the young men at least try to understand-and create a model that other young men in less open circumstances may try to adapt.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 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. At times I got a bit distracted trying to map the stories to the it's a sin production, but ultimately really enjoyed listening to Jill's first hand accounts.
Publication dates are subject to change (although this is an extremely uncommon occurrence overall). This book is an absolute eye opener about a time that people are still affected and traumatised by, and while we know now that a HIV diagnosis isn't the death sentence it once was, we still have a long way to go before we overcome the stigma and fear that still rings around such a diagnosis.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. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. The confidence the young gay men hid a weakness where they believed they were good listeners, because they were clever and they were good learners.
It probably also helps if you're really passionate about theatre, because there's a big emphasis on the London theatre scene in the 80s. I also think this is a very ‘positive’ take, with a lot of the more negative aspects like reactions from family etc barely described or not explored in any depth. 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. 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. In particular, one of Jill’s fallen friends tried everything to survive until they were drugs available to control the HIV virus – they very sadly did not but did inspire others to fight on.Make sure you do not have a mouthful of drink when you read about the guy who lives opposite the Pink Palace. From healthcare to people in the street, it was too long a time before suffering gay men were treated with the respect that they and any human being deserves as their bodies were slowly ravaged by an illness that takes no prisoners.
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