"Millennium Approaches"

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This paper contends that Tony Kushner's "Angels in America" won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for sensitively handling of some serious issues concerning America today. The paper focuses on the first play, "Millennium Approaches" where the author talks about the Reagan era. The paper examines the Reagan administration's hostility towards the gay movement that became apparent when the AIDS epidemic engulfed the country.

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"Ronald Reagan administration has been criticized for its hostile attitude towards gay movement and cause. The administration was highly conservative and close-minded and is held largely responsible for generating homophobia in the country. The President himself refused to discuss the issue until 1987 when 20,000 people died in the US due to AIDS epidemic. In such a society, everyone who appeared different was ridiculed, attacked, harassed and hated. Jews, homosexuals, AIDS-infected patients, almost everyone who was not part of the mainstream culture and society is considered non-human. They are given an unfair treatment and the society mocks their beliefs and values. "

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