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'''Oscar Moore''' (23 March 1960 |
'''Oscar Moore''' (23 March 1960 – 12 September 1996)<ref name=indieobit>{{cite news|last=Picardie|first=Justine|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-oscar-moore-1363862.html|title=Obituary: Oscar Moore|newspaper=[[The Independent]]|date=18 September 1996|access-date=30 December 2009}}</ref> was an English journalist, author and editor of ''[[Screen International]]''. |
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==Biography== |
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''A Matter of Life and Sex'' is an autobiographical novel recounting the coming of age of a gay man, Hugo Harvey, who engages in sex from a young age and later, during college, works at least part-time as a prostitute, contracting [[HIV/AIDS]] in the mid-1980s before the advent of effective anti-HIV drugs. The novel describes the protagonist's relationships with his family (most significantly with his mother), his school friends, his casual sex mates, and with other friends battling [[HIV/AIDS]]. Moore himself has been described as "handsome, bright, witty, and gay,"<ref>Picardie, Justine. [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-oscar-moore-1363862.html] "Obituary: Oscar Moore", ''The Independent'', London, September 18, 1996. <!--accessed December 30, 2009--></ref> and worked occasionally as a male escort in addition to his magazine work. He lived with HIV for the last 13 years of his life, and from 1993 to 1996 wrote a regular column for ''[[The Guardian]]'' entitled "PWA (Person With AIDS)." Moore lost his sight owing to his HIV infection and died of AIDS-related illness in 1996 at the age of 36.<ref>Picardie, Justine. [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-oscar-moore-1363862.html] "Obituary: Oscar Moore", ''The Independent'', London, September 18, 1996. <!--accessed December 30, 2009--></ref> A book collecting his "PWA" columns was published a month after his death.<ref>Moore, Oscar (1996). ''PWA: Looking AIDS in the Face'', Picador, London. ISBN 0-330-35193-1</ref> A stage adaptation was produced in London in 2001.<ref>Gardner, Lyn (2001). [http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2001/oct/19/theatre.artsfeatures1] "Theatre Review: PWA: The Diaries of Oscar Moore", ''The Guardian'', London, October 19, 2001. <!--accessed January 4, 2010--></ref> |
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Moore grew up in London and was educated at the independent [[The Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School]],<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Oscar Moore |url=https://www.christophersilvester.com/oscar-moore |access-date=2023-08-04 |website=Christopher Silvester |language=en-US}}</ref> going on to read English at [[Pembroke College, Cambridge]],<ref name=":0" /> graduating in 1982. He worked as a journalist and critic, under his own name and various pseudonyms, to such magazines as ''[[Time Out (company)|Time Out]]'', ''[[I-D]]'', ''[[The Times]]'', ''[[Punch (magazine)|Punch]]'', ''[[The Evening Standard]]'', and ''The Fred Magazine'' (in which his novel was first serialised). He was editor of ''The Business of Film'' magazine during the mid-1980s, and joined UK film trade journal ''[[Screen International]]'' as deputy editor in 1990. He served as editor of ''Screen International'' from 1991 until September 1994 when he became editor-in-chief.<ref name=boyd>{{cite magazine|magazine=Screen International|title=Oscar Moore 1960-1996|date=20 September 1996|page=12|last=Farrow|first=Boyd}}</ref> |
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Moore himself has been described as "handsome, bright, witty, and gay,"<ref name=indieobit/> and worked occasionally as a male escort in addition to his magazine work. He lived with HIV for the last 13 years of his life, and from 1994 to 1996 wrote a regular column for ''[[The Guardian]]'' entitled "PWA (Person With AIDS)." Moore lost his sight owing to his HIV infection and died of AIDS-related illness in 1996 at the age of 36.<ref name=indieobit/><ref>{{Cite web |title=Oscar Moore |url=https://islington.humap.site/map/records/oscar-moore |access-date=2023-08-04 |website=islington.humap.site}}</ref><ref name=":0" /> |
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==Novel== |
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''A Matter of Life and Sex'' was published in 1991 originally under the pseudonym Alec F. Moran (an anagram for ''roman à clef'').<ref>Moran, Alec F (1991). ''A Matter of Life and Sex'', Paper Drum, London. {{ISBN|1-873736-00-2}}.</ref><ref>Moore, Oscar (1992). ''A Matter of Life and Sex'', Dutton, New York. {{ISBN|0-525-93484-7}}.</ref> It is an autobiographical novel recounting the coming of age of a gay man, Hugo Harvey, who engages in sex from a young age and later, during university, works at least part-time as a prostitute, contracting [[HIV/AIDS]] in the mid-1980s before the advent of effective anti-HIV drugs. The novel describes the protagonist's relationships with his family (most significantly with his mother), his school friends, his casual sex partners, and with friends battling [[HIV/AIDS]]. |
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==Legacy== |
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A book collecting his "PWA" columns was published a month after his death.<ref>Moore, Oscar (1996). ''PWA: Looking AIDS in the Face'', Picador, London. {{ISBN|0-330-35193-1}}</ref> A stage adaptation was produced in London in 2001.<ref>Gardner, Lyn (2001). [https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2001/oct/19/theatre.artsfeatures1] "Theatre Review: PWA: The Diaries of Oscar Moore", ''The Guardian'', London, 19 October 2001. <!--accessed 4 January 2010--></ref> |
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After his death, [[EMAP]], the publishers of ''Screen International'', created [[Screen International#Oscar Moore Foundation|The Oscar Moore Foundation]] as a trust fund to support European screenwriters.<ref name=boyd/> |
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*Gardner, Lyn (2001). [http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2001/oct/19/theatre.artsfeatures1] "Theatre Review: PWA: The Diaries of Oscar Moore", ''The Guardian'', London, October 19, 2001. ,!--accessed January 4, 2010--> |
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*Moran, Alec F (1991). ''A Matter of Life and Sex'', Paper Drum, London. ISBN 1-873-73600-2. |
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*Picardie, Justine. [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-oscar-moore-1363862.html] "Obituary: Oscar Moore", ''The Independent'', London, September 18, 1996. <!--accessed December 30, 2009--> |
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Latest revision as of 05:40, 25 September 2024
Oscar Moore (23 March 1960 – 12 September 1996)[1] was an English journalist, author and editor of Screen International.
Biography
[edit]Moore grew up in London and was educated at the independent The Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School,[2] going on to read English at Pembroke College, Cambridge,[2] graduating in 1982. He worked as a journalist and critic, under his own name and various pseudonyms, to such magazines as Time Out, I-D, The Times, Punch, The Evening Standard, and The Fred Magazine (in which his novel was first serialised). He was editor of The Business of Film magazine during the mid-1980s, and joined UK film trade journal Screen International as deputy editor in 1990. He served as editor of Screen International from 1991 until September 1994 when he became editor-in-chief.[3] Moore himself has been described as "handsome, bright, witty, and gay,"[1] and worked occasionally as a male escort in addition to his magazine work. He lived with HIV for the last 13 years of his life, and from 1994 to 1996 wrote a regular column for The Guardian entitled "PWA (Person With AIDS)." Moore lost his sight owing to his HIV infection and died of AIDS-related illness in 1996 at the age of 36.[1][4][2]
Novel
[edit]A Matter of Life and Sex was published in 1991 originally under the pseudonym Alec F. Moran (an anagram for roman à clef).[5][6] It is an autobiographical novel recounting the coming of age of a gay man, Hugo Harvey, who engages in sex from a young age and later, during university, works at least part-time as a prostitute, contracting HIV/AIDS in the mid-1980s before the advent of effective anti-HIV drugs. The novel describes the protagonist's relationships with his family (most significantly with his mother), his school friends, his casual sex partners, and with friends battling HIV/AIDS.
Legacy
[edit]A book collecting his "PWA" columns was published a month after his death.[7] A stage adaptation was produced in London in 2001.[8]
After his death, EMAP, the publishers of Screen International, created The Oscar Moore Foundation as a trust fund to support European screenwriters.[3]
Works
[edit]- A Matter of Life and Sex, 1991, Dutton, New York. ISBN 0-525-93484-7.
- PWA: Looking AIDS in the Face, 1996, Picador, London. ISBN 0-330-35193-1.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Picardie, Justine (18 September 1996). "Obituary: Oscar Moore". The Independent. Retrieved 30 December 2009.
- ^ a b c "Oscar Moore". Christopher Silvester. Retrieved 4 August 2023.
- ^ a b Farrow, Boyd (20 September 1996). "Oscar Moore 1960-1996". Screen International. p. 12.
- ^ "Oscar Moore". islington.humap.site. Retrieved 4 August 2023.
- ^ Moran, Alec F (1991). A Matter of Life and Sex, Paper Drum, London. ISBN 1-873736-00-2.
- ^ Moore, Oscar (1992). A Matter of Life and Sex, Dutton, New York. ISBN 0-525-93484-7.
- ^ Moore, Oscar (1996). PWA: Looking AIDS in the Face, Picador, London. ISBN 0-330-35193-1
- ^ Gardner, Lyn (2001). [1] "Theatre Review: PWA: The Diaries of Oscar Moore", The Guardian, London, 19 October 2001.
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- English writers with disabilities
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- AIDS-related deaths in England
- 20th-century English male writers
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