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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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. But soon rumours were spreading from America about a frightening illness being dubbed the ‘gay flu’, and Jill and her friends now found their formerly carefree existence under threat.

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.Growing up through the 80’s I witnessed the war years and this book takes me right back to the time and london. Far far too many references to theatres and plays, which lost me as someone who is not familiar with that world.

Most of all, she shines a light on those who were stigmatised and shamed, and remembers those brave and beautiful boys who were lost too soon. She is a successful West End actress and was the inspiration behind Jill Baxter's character in Russell T. The love that shines through on every page of this book as Jill describes her life growing up in London, working in the theatre and West End, with a bunch of beautiful boys who made her laugh and whom she cared about deeply, is immense.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. 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. For them 'coming out' was partly about saying that the baggage sex came with in somebody else's past.

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.

s as explored through three close friends', as the lives of three close friends of Jill Nalder are shared in the book, along with a few more distant friendships, mark the progress that doctors and hospitals make in managing the medication and emotional support of young men with A. 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. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. There are also possibilities of false negative results and and false positive results with the tests to worry about.

The author talks a little about the process of the 'coming out' part, but she keeps to herself the most private revelations the young men reveal to her as she plays 'mother hen'/parental substitute to them in different settings. Jill is and was a true inspirational hero and support for a lot of gay men who suffered through the very worst of the AIDs pandemic. What she does not say, which I will, is that as the young men 'come out' they also learn how many feelings and personal choices their parents were taught to suppress in their youth, feelings and actions which the parents expect the young men to suppress in their turn. An important period of world history where the human stories often get lost in the headlines from the time. 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.

Some of the data that are collected include the number of visitors, their source, and the pages they visit anonymously. My favourite part was that Nalder named any of the journalists who wrote unkind articles during the HIV/AIDS crisis. It is an homage to those medical practitioners who so tirelessly worked to give dignity and love throughout the treatments.