Broadway's "The Normal Heart" Still Fights to be Heard and Breaks Our Hearts
I saw the original groundbreaking play, "The Normal Heart," when it first opened in 1985. I had lost entire casts of chorus boys to a disease no one knew about. Men were dying in droves and there were times I was at a funeral almost every week. Even though "The Normal Heart" talked about AIDS, it was still foreign. One day our friends were healthy, laughing, vibrant people and within weeks they were sick, dying a…