Zero Patience: A Queer Film Classic

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Zero Patience, one of three new Queer Film Classics to be published in late 2011, considers the camp 1993 film musical about the AIDS crisis. The film examines and refutes the urban legend of the alleged introduction of HIV to North America by a single individual, Gaetan Dugas. Dugas, better known as Patient Zero, was tagged in the popular imagination with the blame in large measure because of Randy Shilts' history of the early days of the AIDS epidemic. Considered one of the first and most queer films on AIDS, Zero Patience provides an invaluable companion.

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A gripping tale ... Passionate and smart. --Andrew Holleran, Washington Post

[Knabe and Pearson] offer through the lens of the film a concise and pointed history of the development of the AIDS crisis and the queer community's various responses to it in the 1980s and early 90s. --Film Quarterly

Author Bio

Wendy Gay Pearson: Wendy Gay Pearson is an Assistant Professor in Women's Studies and Feminist Research at the University of Western Ontario. She has published widely on discourses of sexuality, race, citizenship and belonging in contemporary film and literature, with a focus on lesbian and gay and Indigenous issues as well as on sexuality and gender in science fiction. She is the co-editor (with Veronica Hollinger and Joan Gordon) of Queer Universes: Sexualities in Science Fiction (Liverpool UP, 2008).
Susan Knabe: Susan Knabe is an Assistant Professor in both the departments of Media and Information Technology and of Women's Studies and Feminist Research at the University of Western Ontario. Her research interests include the construction of gender and sexuality in discourses of health and disease as well as the representation of gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity in film and media.