140: Frank and Raphael | Part 2
Homo Sapiens
Christopher Sweeney
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2021
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
This isn’t your usual Homo Sapiens episode, it’s a documentary really, a first hand account of the AIDS crisis in New York in the 80s, of art, adventure and a couple who have been through it all. Artist Frank Holliday and his partner of 22 years, Raphael, joined us to talk about working for Andy Warhol, hanging out with Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Studio 54 and how AIDS impacted the queer scene of the city. All with a huge twist in the tale. Sit down, grab a cocktail and enjoy an incredible story from two wonderful people - Chris and Alan x
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to part two of our lovely chat with Frank and Raphael, if you haven't heard |
| 0:05.5 | part one, pump the brakes, head back to the feed, click on part one, then come back to |
| 0:10.8 | here for part two, here's part two. |
| 0:15.7 | I was watching TV and I was a Tony Awards and I'd been watching all night because Liza |
| 0:22.1 | was going to be ready to come on and you're probably on it too, it's like um, but all |
| 0:28.5 | of sudden these three doctors came in, in house, Haasmat suits, like, you know, like astronauts |
| 0:33.5 | and they came in and they were like sticking together, like, like they're feeding like |
| 0:37.2 | the dude in my room and they wouldn't like cross the room and they were standing there |
| 0:42.7 | and like, Mr. Holiday, we need to talk to you, I was like, wait, wait, wait, Liza's on. |
| 0:49.1 | They waited and Liza came on and then I said, okay, and they said, are you ho ho ho, am I |
| 1:02.4 | a ho? |
| 1:03.4 | Oh, I had to thank. |
| 1:07.2 | Yes. |
| 1:08.2 | Well, let's deconstruct that word and they were like, are you home as sexual? |
| 1:12.9 | I was like, what part of Liza's on, do you understand? |
| 1:16.2 | I mean, like, no, I'm like really, you know, so that was, so did you, so they came in |
| 1:21.4 | with the Haasmat suits. |
| 1:22.4 | Oh, I know what they're going to say. |
| 1:23.4 | I knew what they're going to say. |
| 1:24.4 | And then so you waited, so all through Liza, you knew, I'm like, God, that's brilliant. |
| 1:28.5 | And what kind of, I mean, you know, I mean, I knew what was coming. |
| 1:31.6 | Yeah. |
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