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How Erasure turned one of Cole Porter’s biggest hits into a powerful rallying cry during the AIDS crisis
Keith Haring, playwright Larry Kramer, and British film director Derek Jarman made some of their strongest work in direct response to the epidemic. At the intersection of these different responses was the Red Hot + Blue album in 1990. The idea was simple: Invite people to record a cover of a Cole Porter song for a compilation album to benefit ACT UP.