Millennium Approaches Summary
Tony Kushner

Millennium Approaches Summary

Set in the mid-1980s, Millennium Approaches tells the story of two couples during the Reagan era and the outbreak in AIDS awareness. Louis Ironson's lover Prior Walter is dying of AIDS, and Louis can't handle the horrors of the illness. He leaves Prior, who begins having visions of an approaching Angel. Meanwhile, Joe Pitt, a conservative Mormon, is offered a position in the Department of Justice by high-powered attorney Roy...

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