Bill Sherwood

Bill Sherwood only made one full-length independent feature, yet "Parting Glances" (1986) stands as the first film to deal with the effects of the AIDS crisis on the gay community and one that treated the subject of homosexuality matter-of-factly, not as tragedy or for comic relief. The basic theme of the film is friendship and its related joys and pains.

Born in Washington, DC in the early 1950s, Sherwood was raised in the Battle Creek, MI …