Peter Staley, an HIV/AIDS activist who’d been featured in the documentary How to Survive a Plague [FanFare thread], was offered a small part in the (eventually-Oscar-winning) film Dallas Buyers Club. Staley agreed, but then he read the original script… [Vanity Fair]
The VF article is an excerpt from Staley’s upcoming book, Never Silent: ACT UP and My Life in Activism. HIV/AIDS denialism previously on the blue; Staley previously.