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In 1985 Dallas, electrician and hustler Ron Woodroof works around the system to help AIDS patients get the medication they need after he is diagnosed with the disease. ![]() Dallas Buyers Club: The not- so- straight truth Bill Minutaglio leafed through the pages of the Village Voice newspaper. A New Yorker living and working in Dallas, Texas, Minutaglio loved to catch up with the minutiae of his old home town, and as a staffer on the Dallas Morning News’s Sunday magazine, he was always on the lookout for stories that might resonate with his readers. It was 1. 99. 2, and the world had been grappling with the Aids epidemic for a little more than a decade. Although progress had been made in the treatment, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which regulates pharmaceutical drugs in the United States, was accused by some Aids sufferers of being too slow to sanction the use of medicine they believed could extend their lives – drugs that had been approved in other countries. These drugs were then distributed so members could self- medicate. And more than two decades later, Woodroof’s incredible story is now a Hollywood movie starring Matthew Mc. Conaughey– a role for which the actor has won a Golden Globe and the film no less than six Oscar nominations, including best picture and actor. Dallas Buyers Club— released on Friday — is a blackly comic tale of Woodroof, a man diagnosed as HIV- positive in the mid- Eighties. At a time when the disease was misunderstood and a successful drug combination more than a decade away, Woodroof was given just 3. When he subsequently discovers that a drug thought to be able to control his illness is only available to some patients as part of a double- blind placebo clinical trial, he is furious. Based, in part, on Minutaglio’s interview with Woodroof, we see Mc. Conaughey dressed as a priest smuggling medication back from Mexico in the boot of his car. Mary Franklin, the club’s receptionist, recalls how Woodroof — who spent days poring over medical journals, looking for any hints of an Aids breakthrough – loved the excitement that came from being “over the edge”: “Whenever he went to Mexico . He even impersonated a doctor, on occasion, to slip across the border with his haul. He also smuggled drugs from Israel, Sweden and Japan. During a trip to the latter, he bribed a doctor to write him prescriptions for 3. On his way back his suitcase, which was full of dry ice, started to give off little puffs of smoke. The official took the issue no further. He thought the drug helped him stave off the symptoms of dementia associated with Aids, and was so furious with the FDA for not authorising its use that he launched a legal case against the government agency. As Sherry Jacobson, another Dallas Morning News journalist, has written, Woodroof was an “improbable hero” who helped hundreds – “perhaps thousands” – of Aids sufferers prolong their lives. Woodroof experimented with a whole host of drugs in a desperate attempt to save himself, including one from China that was banned by the FDA in the US and which Woodroof himself admitted was so dangerous it could kill him. On that fact, Minutaglio and Borten agree. But there are other aspects to Woodroof’s character, as portrayed in the film, that have caused controversy. The real Ron Woodroof For a start, Minutaglio says Woodroof was not the “bull ridin’ cowboy” the film would have you believe; he didn’t ride rodeo and he didn’t chew tobacco. Instead, Minutaglio says that was probably just a device that the filmmakers employed to give their story an emotional “arc”. In a way I think it’d have been an odd juxtaposition that would have made the story more interesting.” In fact, most people who knew Woodroof don’t believe he was even straight. I’ve seen the movie with her. I’ve had dinner with her, and she said he was never embarrassed about his bisexuality; Ron felt comfortable with who he was.” Penny Krispin, a nurse who treated Woodroof and became a close friend, concurs. The drug runner was “as racist and homophobic as they come”, he has said. Whether Woodroof was putting on an act for the screenwriter or was ashamed of his sexuality, nobody knows. And he never told Borten or Minutaglio how he contracted HIV. There were, says Minutaglio, some things Woodroof just refused to talk about. Rayon, a transsexual prostitute who is also living with Aids and becomes Woodroof’s business partner in the Dallas Buyers Club (a role for which the actor Jared Leto has won an Oscar nomination), never existed. She is, Borten has admitted, a composite of a number of transsexual activists whom he interviewed as research for the film. Jared Leto has been nominated for an Oscar for his role as the transsexual prostitute Rayon And the same goes for Eve Saks (played by Jennifer Garner), a doctor who eventually becomes a friend and ally of Woodroof’s in his mission to get Aids victims the treatment they need. She didn’t exist, but has been included in the film to represent the many doctors in the Eighties and Nineties who also despaired of the FDA and, surreptitiously, gave their Aids patients the contact details for buyers clubs so they could get hold of drugs in the early stages of development. It emanated, he says, from Woodroof’s “anger at the government injustices that he was enduring. He’d pound his fist on the table, saying it shouldn’t have the right to stop him putting what he wants in his body. That’s when he started cursing. It was pretty evident to me that he was dying, and as it turned out, he didn’t have very long to live after my story appeared.” “Dammit,” Woodroof yelled at Minutaglio during one interview. I have taken chances that have almost killed me and I will keep on taking them. I have nothing to lose.” By the time Minutaglio met Woodroof, 1. Americans had died from Aids. Nevertheless, there were those who opposed what the buyers clubs were doing. Doctors warned that drugs bought “off the street” could be impure and cause unnecessary suffering. But there were also, says Minutaglio, “clearly nurses and doctors around the nation who made the ethical decision to support the buyers club movement; people who were quietly saying they admired . And Ron turned out to be a fascinating character. What was incredible was the danger he was willing to put himself in. He was desperate but his motives were so pure: he had to stay alive. I really admired him, and I’m not ashamed to say that.” Steven Pounders feels the same. And Mc. Conaughey . Even then only a three- month supply was permitted. Woodroof, although he lost his legal fight to make Peptide T available to Aids patients, was given permission to take it for personal use. So many people were dying every day and the human spirit was really tested. But it makes me feel endeared to that human spirit. Today, if they take their pills, people with HIV can live long and healthy lives. I’m just honoured to have taken care of people who have lived to witness this big change.” INTERVIEW: Matthew Mc. Conaughey reveals how he lost 3. HIV- positive cowboy Ron Woodruff in Dallas Buyers' Club.
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