A movie starring Matthew McConaughey as an amateur cowboy and gambler living a wild life in 1980s Dallas wouldn’t be surprising at all—nor would it sound, on its face, like particularly serious ...

Audiences are not as shocked to see LGBT characters on the silver screen today as they were in 1993, when Tom Hanks played a gay Philadelphian struggling with AIDS. Characters such as Rayon in Dallas ...

In the mid-1980s, the HIV and AIDS epidemic was rampant, misunderstood, and, above all, a time of panic for a great many people. In “Dallas Buyer's Club,” a story based on real-life events, Texas ...