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. It took Rock Hudson dying for anyone to start paying attention," Newbury stated."So I consider it my duty as an artist and a director to serve as a bridge between those two generations, between all generations. And that's what Diversionary does so beautifully. They work with queer youth and queer elders and everybody in-between to share their stories, to learn about our history.
"All I saw on television was if you were gay, you were going to die — and how our government was doing nothing about it," Newbury recalled."I am old enough that that's the only message that I saw on TV growing up, and how our government let us die by the tens of thousands and did nothing about it until we started acting up and protesting and forming community to actually get the rights to basic health services.
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