Tell the story of a virus

This article is part of the special Cultural Commons edition on It's a Sin. It argues that if It's a Sin is the queer Friends of the UK AIDS era, it loses its nerve: while it gets right the ways that queer kinship reinvented the conventional family during the AIDS crisis, it still makes the domestic sphere its ultimate thematic focus - and mothers the villains.

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This article criticizes "It's a Sin" for its handling of queer kinship and family themes, arguing that it loses its nerve by portraying mothers as villains.