Sarah Schulman & Carolyn Strauss

Novelist, playwright, nonfiction writer, and screenwriter Sarah Schulman joins television producer and former HBO president Carolyn Strauss (Game of Thrones, Treme, Chernobyl) for a discussion about queer representation in film and television. An activist and AIDS historian, Schulman is the author of Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993.

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