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Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves

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Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves	comment	"Torka aldrig tårar utan handskar" ("Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves") is a Swedish mini-series in three parts based on three novels by Jonas Gardell (individually subtitled "Love", "Sickness" and "Death"). The series aired in the fall of 2012 and the books were published between 2012 and 2013.Set in Stockholm in the 1980s the series depicts the gay culture of Sweden, the spread of HIV and AIDS and above all the fear and the prejudice that came with the disease. It is narrated by Benjamin, a Jehovah's Witness who is invited to a Christmas party by Paul, a flamboyant homosexual man with a habit of taking young, insecure gay men under his wing. At the party Benjamin meets Rasmus, a young man from the small community of Koppom who moved to Stockholm to be able to explore his sexuality. Benjamin and Rasmus fall in love and begin to build a life together, facing problems such as prejudice and Benjamin not wanting to tell his parents that he is gay, but for the most part having a happy life and a great love. Then HIV and AIDS begins to spread among the gay community and Rasmus finds out he has the disease.The series is based on real people and real experiences of Jonas Gardell, himself a gay man who was around the same age as Benjamin and Rasmus in the eighties. It became a huge hit when it premiered in Sweden and a landmark piece of entertainment. It does not shy away from depicting gay relationships, it was produced by and aired on Swedish public service and when Jonas Gardell was named Homo of the Year at the Swedish Gay Gala in early 2013 it was the Swedish crown princess who handed him the award. BBC Four aired the series in December 2013, under the title "Don't Ever Wipe Tears Without Gloves". The series received great critical acclaim internationally and is now available on DVD with English subtitles.
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Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die
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Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_16838478	type	The Disease That Shall Not Be Named
Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_16838478	comment	The Disease That Shall Not Be Named: Parents often lie about what killed their son, causing distant relatives to donate money to cancer research.
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Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_174ea6a7	type	The Dutiful Son
Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_174ea6a7	comment	The Dutiful Son: Benjamin, at first.
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Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: In an opening scene a young nurse is chastised by her older colleague for having wiped Reine's tears without her gloves on, using the exact title words.
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Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_1b596e24	type	The Beard
Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_1b596e24	comment	The Beard: An involuntary example. At Bengt's funeral, his best friend Madde is said to be his girlfriend, to hide the fact that he was gay. She never acted as his beard while he was alive, though.
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Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_1c5f6177	type	The Twink
Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_1c5f6177	comment	The Twink: Rasmus.
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Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_21cf9301	type	Family of Choice
Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_21cf9301	comment	Family of Choice: A lot of emphasis is put on this. When Paul first invites Rasmus over for Christmas he fully agrees that Christmas should be spent with family, but that you have to define family.
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Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_231cadfa	type	Token Lesbian
Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_231cadfa	comment	Token Lesbian: Bettan can be seen as this.
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Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_246c5b47	type	Ascended Fanboy
Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_246c5b47	comment	Ascended Fanboy: Sort of. Erik Engkvist wrote fan mail to Jonas Gardell and Gardell wrote back. Through their correspondence, Engkvist told Gardell about his experiences as a gay Jehovah's Witness. When Gardell wrote the book he based Benjamin on Engkvist.
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Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_2784846f	type	Good Victims, Bad Victims
Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_2784846f	comment	Good Victims, Bad Victims: Paul angrily comments on a newspaper article that expresses shock and outrage over the fact that the first "innocent" victim of AIDS has died. (As in, someone who contracted the disease from a blood transfusion, rather than sexual contact.)
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Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_297ab1b9	type	Parental Abandonment
Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_297ab1b9	comment	Parental Abandonment: Benjamin's parents act as though he is dead after he leaves their church.
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Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_2a8a7ea6	type	Bury Your Gays
Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_2a8a7ea6	comment	Bury Your Gays: Both played straight and averted.
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Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_3f89452c	comment	Sad Clown: Paul. As noted by Benjamin, much of his incessant joking and over-the-top mannerisms come off as forced. During the group's final Christmas gathering, this exchange takes place:
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Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_43b154c9	type	Not Even Bothering with the Accent
Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_43b154c9	comment	Not Even Bothering with the Accent: Rasmus is from Värmland, an area with a quite distinctive accent, but neither he nor his parents nor their neighbours show any trace of it.
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Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_51df5ca1	type	Animal Metaphor
Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_51df5ca1	comment	Animal Metaphor: The white moose.
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Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: Each episode opens with the same piece of narration from Benjamin and the same bit of narration closes the last episode.
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Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_5941d75	type	Beta Couple
Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_5941d75	comment	Beta Couple: Seppo and Lars-Åke.
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Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Several gay men end their lives after being diagnosed, to spare themselves pain and humiliation. One of them is up-and-coming actor Bengt.
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Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_6f19054d	type	Coming-Out Story
Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_6f19054d	comment	Coming-Out Story: For some of the characters.
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Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_722b3319	type	Camp Gay
Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_722b3319	comment	Camp Gay: Paul, to the nth degree.
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Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "And God shall wipe away all the tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away." Book of Revelation, Chapter 21. It's Benjamin's favorite quote from the Bible and it appears repeatedly through the story.
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Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_766de4dc	type	To Absent Friends
Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_766de4dc	comment	To Absent Friends: Every year at Christmas they toast to friends who have died from AIDS, using the exact trope words in English even though the rest of the dialogue is in Swedish.
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Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_77a8fd8a	type	STD Immunity
Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_77a8fd8a	comment	STD Immunity: Averted. It's kind of the whole point.
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Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_7d7a7d0f	type	Opening Narration
Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_7d7a7d0f	comment	Opening Narration: Provided by Benjamin. Narrator All Along: Björn Kjellman stars as the Narrator, gives narration that isn't plot-specific but is about AIDS in general in Sweden. Then at the opening of the third part we start at the 2010's where Kjellman enters an apartment, goes past a wall full of pictures of the characters we know and love, takes a call on his mobile phone, and calls himself... Benjamin Nilsson.
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Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_83b44e80	type	Straight Gay
Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_83b44e80	comment	Straight Gay: Several characters, most notably Benjamin and Seppo.
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Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_8637b8ef	type	All Gays Love Theater
Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_8637b8ef	comment	All Gays Love Theater: Averted with Paul (who would rather watch soap operas on video), but played straight with Bengt (who is an aspiring actor with a lot of talent).
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Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: The TV series never reveals if Seppo caught HIV, if he found somebody new, or even if he stayed in touch with Benjamin. The book reveals that Seppo and Benjamin are still close and that Seppo eventually found somebody new and married his new partner.
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Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_88574a	type	Narrator All Along
Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_88574a	comment	Narrator All Along: Björn Kjellman stars as the Narrator, gives narration that isn't plot-specific but is about AIDS in general in Sweden. Then at the opening of the third part we start at the 2010's where Kjellman enters an apartment, goes past a wall full of pictures of the characters we know and love, takes a call on his mobile phone, and calls himself... Benjamin Nilsson.
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Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_88fd6847	type	Converting for Love
Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_88fd6847	comment	Converting for Love: In a way. While Benjamin leaves Jehovah's Witnesses to be with Rasmus, it is never stated if he actually converts to another form of Christianity.
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Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_89975510	type	Everyone Is Christian at Christmas
Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_89975510	comment	Everyone Is Christian at Christmas: Played with.
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Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_8b6e8d7	type	Anachronic Order
Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_8b6e8d7	comment	Anachronic Order: The books jump back and forth in the timeline so often that you really need to pay attention to what's going on. The series does the same, though to a lesser extent.
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Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_99dfd4fc	type	Nothing Is the Same Anymore
Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_99dfd4fc	comment	Nothing Is the Same Anymore: Most noticeable during the last time the group gathers to celebrate Christmas. The only survivors at this point are Paul, Seppo, and Benjamin. Paul only has days to live, to boot. Instead of having the usual grand feast, they sit in the kitchen with no Christmas decorations and eat simple food.
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Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_a90fff3	type	Based on a True Story
Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_a90fff3	comment	Based on a True Story: Some characters are based directly on real people, others are composite characters and some are entirely fictional. The entire series is based on friends of Jonas Gardell and the things they lived through during the eighties.
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Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: The treatment of gay men in 1982 versus 2012. In the books there is a mention of a beautiful 19th-century chair that was donated to the AIDS ward but was then draped in plastic to stop the infection from jeans and underwear-wearing men and that people talked about their disease with their doctor, went home, and then killed themselves. In the 2012 segment, Benjamin sits his ass down on the normal chair in front of his doctor's table, shakes his hand, asks about his values but needs to ask what those values mean since he constantly forgets about the finer points about his illness, thanks him, get up, and goes on with his absolutely normal life.
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Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_b4c406a6	type	Death by Despair
Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_b4c406a6	comment	Death by Despair: Heavily implied to have been the fate of Harald, the year after Rasmus died. Also applies by proxy to Bengt, and all the others who took their lives upon being diagnosed. At the time HIV and AIDS were so stigmatized that many couldn't handle living with the disease itself and the social stigmas so they chose to end their suffering before it began. If they hadn't, some might have gone on to live long, happy lives despite their sickness. Case in point, Benjamin, who gets diagnosed in the eighties but whose sickness doesn't develop very fast and he lives long enough for the drugs that slow the progress of the disease to become available.
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Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_bd50e676	type	Queer Romance
Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_bd50e676	comment	Queer Romance
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Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_bf1255fa	type	Really Gets Around
Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_bf1255fa	comment	Really Gets Around: Implied for some of the characters. Paul and Rasmus in particular.
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Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_c1725854	type	Character Focus
Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_c1725854	comment	Character Focus: The book devotes a few chapters solely to Reine, Bengt and Lars-Åke.
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Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_c313d43a	type	True Companions
Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_c313d43a	comment	True Companions: Paul refers to himself and the men in his circle of friends as family and it's obvious that they feel closer to each other than their biological families.
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Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_c673210e	type	Informed Judaism
Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_c673210e	comment	Informed Judaism: Or more correctly, alleged Judaism. Paul claims to be a Jew but we never see anything that backs this claim up. Benjamin even questions if he's being sincere or if he just "likes minorities".
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Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_d32cd9f5	type	Cast Full of Gay
Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_d32cd9f5	comment	Cast Full of Gay
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Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_e4c89b67	type	Attending Your Own Funeral
Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_e4c89b67	comment	Attending Your Own Funeral: After Benjamin reveals his sexual orientation and refusal to live in celibacy to his parents, they pay him a visit, bringing cake and roses. While they are eating, Benjamin realizes that he is actually attending what his parents consider his funeral, since they will consider him dead once they leave.
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Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_e4f48a7f	type	The "Fun" in "Funeral"
Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_e4f48a7f	comment	The "Fun" in "Funeral": Paul has one of the most awesome funerals ever.
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Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_e83f211c	type	O.O.C. Is Serious Business
Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_e83f211c	comment	O.O.C. Is Serious Business: When Bengt's best friend Madde is referred to as "Bengt's girlfriend" by the priest at his funeral, Paul reacts not with his normal glib, but with genuine tear-filled offence. At Lars-Åke's funeral, Benjamin curses when he hears that donations are being made to the Cancer Fund (implying that Lars-Åke had died of "legitimate" cancer, rather than "shameful, self-inflicted" AIDS).
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Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_e90f5682	type	But Not Too Gay
Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_e90f5682	comment	But Not Too Gay: Completely averted. The series includes a couple of sex scenes between men and all gay couples are shown kissing and touching. Adam Pålsson (who plays Rasmus) said in an interview that he and Adam Lundgren (who plays Benjamin) agreed right from the start to allow each other to touch, kiss, and caress one another freely anywhere on their bodies. The result is a couple portrayed on-screen who display a heck of a lot of physical affection for one another which makes the romance very believable.
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Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_ed68bcc9	comment	Dwindling Party: Most named characters have died of AIDS by the end of the series. The third part is called "Death" for a reason.
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Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_f765e2d3	comment	Dying Alone: Many of the AIDS victims. Reine is repeatedly stated to have chosen this, so as not to bring "shame" on his family. Benjamin, who has been ostracized by his family and lost most of his friends to AIDS, fears that this will be his fate, but he survives.
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Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_f7eda5d8	type	Snow Means Love
Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_f7eda5d8	comment	Snow Means Love: We see Rasmus and Benjamin begin to fall in love whilst walking home together in the snow… on Christmas Eve no less.
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Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_fb9e0265	comment	Team Dad: Seppo.
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Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_fb9e25e9	comment	Team Mom: Paul.
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Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_fcd9b657	type	Gallows Humor
Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_fcd9b657	comment	Gallows Humor: Paul gripes about friends who commit suicide when they get their HIV diagnosis. He claims they should have the decency to waste away and not leave their poor friends to carry heavy bodies in caskets at the funerals.
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Never Wipe Tears Without Gloves / int_fed441ad	comment	All Gays are Promiscuous: One of the prejudices gay men faced in the eighties. It was commonly used against the gay community at the time. Some of the characters in the story are promiscuous (Rasmus loves Benjamin but doesn't want a monogamous relationship at first, Paul Really Gets Around, Reine and Bengt are Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places) but many are not (Benjamin only ever sleeps with Rasmus, Seppo and Lars-Åke are monogamous).
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