Longtime Companion Study Guide

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The movie, Longtime Companion shows interwoven lives of a group of gay men. It also sets an epic journey of the start AIDS epidemic. In the group, there exist two deep-rooted friendships between David and Sean, who then narrates a daytime soap opera and that involving Howard, who is featured in a soap authored by Sean together with his partner Paul. Other than David and Sean, there are other single friends in the loop too. They is Willy, who is a personal tutor, John, and Fuzzy, who is a lawyer (Wyatt, 2008). Howard and Paul are neighbors to Lisa- who is Fuzzy’s friend and participant of the circle. Willy and Fuzzy appear early in the movie and start the friendship. The prosperous couple namely David and Sean, often invite their friends over for a stay in their beach house on Fire Island. …show more content…

In 1982, John developed pneumonia and his health goes into critical condition and later dies soon after he is taken to the hospital. In 1983, the outlook to the illness throughout the circle changes and panic took hold. David and Sean start arguing over Sean’s concerns that he might contract the disease. The movie shows explicitly, the fear Willy develops of getting infected with the disease from a kiss on the neck from Sean. By 1985, David looks after his partner Sean and is now suffering from AIDS-associated dementia (Román, 2006). David is trying to offer support to Sean with his screenwriting job so as to keep the degree of his illness out of sight from the studio. At the same time, Fuzzy tries to secure Howard a job as a movie character when the director turns down his request on the ground that he has

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