Stephen Winter on “Chocolate Babies,” queer activism and immortalizing those who died of AIDS

Q | Jun 29, 2023
In his 1996 film “Chocolate Babies,” Stephen Winter drew on his life as a young Black gay man in New York City to tell the untold story of the AIDS crisis: the fact that it disproportionately affected racialized people. With the film’s new 4K restoration and inclusion into the Criterion Channel, Stephen joins Tom to talk about the legacy of “Chocolate Babies.”

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