Peter Adair’s Absolutely Positive the making of an AIDS activist.

For World AIDS Day in 2022 I got to write about a favorite documentary of mine for KQED:

In 1991, one of the most diverse film representations of people living with HIV appeared on the PBS television show POV. Featuring 11 HIV-positive men and women discussing their relationship to and experiences of the virus, San Francisco filmmaker Peter Adair’s Absolutely Positive would go on to win a Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival and an International Documentary Award. But for two people involved in the making of the documentary—Adair and one of his subjects, Doris Butler—it was a milestone of much more personal proportions.

Pictured from top left to bottom right: Doris Butler, Juan Alejandro, Mary Corwin, and Marlon Riggs