‘Welcome to Chechnya’ uncompromisingly profiles the widespread persecution of Russian gays ARNOLD WAYNE JONES | Executive Editorjones@dallasvoice.com David France spent the first 30 years of his life as a print journalist, especially covering AIDS in the 1980s, when mainstream media were largely arm’s-length about gay issues in general.
In 2012, he turned all that collective memory and connections into his first movie, the Oscar-nominated How to Survive a Plague, which used fascinating, rare video footage of meetings and protests, plus current-day interviews, to tell with gravitas and astonishing intimacy the inside story of a campaign many of us probably assumed we already knew. (If you’ve seen it, you’ll probably never forget — as I