Love from the Pink Palace - Memories of Love, Loss Cabaret through AIDS Crisis, for fans of S A

''Jill met the crisis head on . . . She held the hands of so many men. She lost them, and remembered them, and somehow kept going'' Russell T Davies, creator of Channel 4''s IT''S A SIN When Jill Nalder arrived at drama school in London in the early 1980s, she was ready for her life to begin. With her band of best friends - of which many were young, talented gay men with big dreams of their own - she grabbed London by the horns: partying with drag queens at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern, hosting cabarets at her glamorous flat, flitting across town to one gig after another. But soon rumours spread 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. In this moving memoir, IT''S A SIN''s Jill Nalder tells the true story of her life during the AIDS crisis, and that of friends and colleagues, doctors and nurses, activists and fundraisers. She recounts juggling a busy West End career while campaigning for AIDS awareness and research, educating herself and caring for the sick. 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.

Product details

• Authors: JILL NALDER, Jill Nalder
• Publisher: Wildfire
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.02.2023
• EAN: 9781472288431
• ISBN: 978-1-4722-8843-1
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 194 mm x 26 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; MEDICAL / AIDS & HIV, PERFORMING ARTS / Television / Genres / Drama, Gay & Lesbian studies, Performance Art, LGBTQ+ / Gay and Lesbian Studies, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / LGBTQ+, HIV / AIDS, Medicine: HIV/AIDS, retroviral diseases