NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #31/NN_1992_31.iso/spool/soc/motss/53571

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From: [e-mail] (Leslie Farnell)
Subject: Re: BBC Leads In Pro-Gay Television
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Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 03:54:16 GMT
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[e-mail] (Tony McEnery) writes:

>    Now, however, things seem to have changed. For the next season
>of stories they have broken away from their traditional fayre of Narnia
>books and stories about kindly elves and pixies. Instead at least one
>of the stories deals with gay rights and AIDS! The story is about some
>Australian kid who travels to England to try to meet the Queen. He does
>this because his brother is dying, and he wants to make the Queen aware
>of the plight of lesbian/gay teenagers dying of AIDS (the article was unclear
>about whether the brother is dying of this). He also wants the Queen to
>visit them.

I guess this must be Two Weeks With The Queen by Morris Gleitzmann. This
just had a successful run here as a play; rave reviews and so good they
moved to another theatre to continue performing after the original run
finished. Unfortunately, by the time I got around to thinking about tickets,
it was all over.

However, the book is on sale all over, so I've bought it for my partner's
son's wife's daughter. (If you follow, English doesn't seem to have a word
for someone who is related via two de-facto links.) As a Xmas present.

Les