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And The Band Played On “And the Band Played On” “And the Band Played On” was an HBO movie that illustrated the AIDS crisis in the 1980s and early 1990s. The movie touched on subjects concerning the reaction of the gay community, the heterosexual community, and the medical community. It showed not only the research in AIDS, but also the way that the US government dealt with it. The movie expressed the consequences the gay community suffered, the plight of the medical community in researching the disease, and the issue of government response to it. As a result of the discovery of AIDS, the gay community suffered greatly at the hands of social alienation. “AIDS” was not called “AIDS” until the CDC changed the different name that singled out the gay community as the only ones that could acquire the disease. After some major controversy the gay bathhouses were closed down, because it was believed that the AIDS virus was spreading greatly in these places. The gay community also suffered major emotional trauma as very little was known of the disease and little could be done about it. ___ The medical community had much trouble in the progress of researching the disease. In the beginning aids, community, disease, gay, played, people, movie, medical, government, time, suffered, research, major, cdc, blood, because, band, researching, out, one, name, much, lives, little, greatly, finally, discovered, changed, after, wish, way, wanted, virus, very, various, vaccine