Love from the Pink Palace: Memories of Love, Loss and Cabaret through the AIDS Crisis, for fans of IT'S A SIN

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I don’t think I realised at the time due to my age and not being part of the communities worse affected the appalling treatment of the victims of the aids crisis.

In this moving memoir, IT’S A SIN’s Jill Nalder tells the true story of her life during the AIDS crisis, and that of friends and colleagues, doctors and nurses, activists and fundraisers.There are also possibilities of false negative results and and false positive results with the tests to worry about.

This book resonated with me because I was around Jill's age and just starting University at the start of the AIDS crisis and this is such a valuable addition to the history books of that period. Jill also makes sure to point out in her book as well how AIDs diagnoses also affected many women and how testing procedure failed women and children who may have contracted the disease whether it be through sexual relations, blood transfusions, or in utero. It’s Jill, real Jill with all her courage, strength, dignity, honesty, tenacity and love taking us from the pink palace and way beyond in her words with her boys. From 1985 onward Jill Nalder talked in her phrase 'liked a cracked record' to describe the frequency of her advice to the young gay men who were her friends about the necessity of safer sex practices, as they were commonly understood. Despite the darkness and despair of parts of the book, Nalder skillfully combines snippets of humour, loads of love and joy and a deep humanity that , despite my tears, kept me reading on.

That why the fear was so genuine and so prohibitive when a young man a genuine positive HIV result from a test. I don’t usually enjoy autobiographical books, and at first I thought this was the same as others I had read or tried to read, but I persisted and I was rewarded with a beautiful moving and heartbreaking read. Jill also informs us about the many advances that have been made since the epidemic which was very useful to know. An important period of world history where the human stories often get lost in the headlines from the time.