Outfest: Documentary ‘AIDS Diva’ Celebrates Life, Pioneering Work Of “Blatantly Honest” LGBT Activist Connie Norman

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A quarter century after the passing of HIV-AIDS activist Connie Norman, she’s being remembered for her relentless battle to curtail the disease and to combat homophobia and transphobia. The outspok…

“She had a life experience of oppression and also overcoming all those obstacles—living on the streets, addiction, sex work,” Alencastre told Deadline. “When she came to ACT UP… she found a family, a family that looked up to her because she made sure she was schooling everybody… She was really a pioneer, supporting and making sure that her siblings and her children would be taken care of properly, as a proud trans woman living with HIV herself.

In 1991 Norman began hosting an evening radio show on XEK-AM focused on LGBT issues, the first program of its kind in Los Angeles. She also hosted a weekly TV show on cable television. Alencastre drew from those sources for his film, as well as an archive of materials held by Peter Cashman, a close friend of Norman’s and founding member of ACT UP/LA. The video trove illuminates Norman’s inclusive embrace of humanity.

 

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