Positive Men

Words and images from these scenes resonate throughout the documentary portraits which follow. The interviews, conducted in Toronto and San Francisco (1993-1994), feature artists, filmmakers, AIDS community workers, writers and volunteers who have made unique contributions within the cultural and community responses to AIDS. Included in this series of portraits are visual artists Andy Fabo and Stephen Andrews, video artist Zachery Longboy, performance poet Courtnay McFarlane, Beowulf Thorne – editor of Diseased Pariah Newsletter, safe sex author Richard Locke, and Dan Wolfieler – director of the San Francisco Stop AIDS Project.

Positive Men concludes with a moving portrait of the late filmmaker, Marlon Riggs.