LOVE SICKNESS, is a comic and touching ensemble drama about a group of black gay men who come together for a night of cards, music and fun. While in the hospital their good friend “Miss Thing” prepares to die of HIV/AIDS.  A evening of  secrets and exposed feelings nearly tares them apart, but the great love of a dying friend holds them together. Simple discussions of issues relevant to black gay men turns into out and out fights and indictments of some characters’ personal choices. In the tradition of BOYS IN THE BAND, this group of friends come face to face with what it really means to be black, gay and male in America and then what it takes to try to build a life in the age of AIDS, a crisis that is stealing their friends and possibly their own lives.

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