The film Philadelphia is released.

The film Philadelphia is released. It tells the story of a gay lawyer (Tom Hanks) who is fired by his firm because he has AIDS, and the lawyer (Denzel Washington) who defends him and, in the process, has to face and acknowledge his own homophobia. The film received strongly positive reviews and won Hanks an Oscar for best actor. It was an important moment in the film industry’s acknowledgment of the AIDS epidemic and presenting it to a mass audience in an empathic way.

1993-12-23