This image is a broadway poster for the musical RENT which first played on broadway in 1996. RENT tells the story of a group of friends, most of whom are living with AIDS, in New York at the end of the 1980’s. This image is interesting to me because I watched the movie adaptation of RENT several years ago and it was the first time that I had heard about AIDS. RENT showed me that AIDS can be contracted by anyone, not just gay men. It also showed me the effects of AIDS, both for those who have it and for the people who surround those people.