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Playwright Tony Kushner will be the featured guest speaker at a special one-day exhibition of selected materials that celebrates the New York Public Library’s opening of the Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GMHC) records. The event will take place at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building (Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street), on Wednesday, September 22, at 6:30pm.
Founded in 1982, GMHC serves to educate the public about HIV/AIDS, provide care services for people with AIDS, and advocate at all levels of government for fair AIDS policies. The collection is being made available to researchers for the first time.
Kushner won the Pulitzer Prize for his two-part work Angels in America, which was turned into an award-winning HBO miniseries, and which is currently being given its first major New York revival at the Signature Theatre. His other works include The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism With a Key to the Scriptures, A Bright Room Called Day, Slavs, Homebody/Kabul, and the musicals Brundibar and Caroline, or Change. He also received an Oscar nomination for co-writing the screenplay for Munich.
