Oscar Moore

Oscar Moore (23 March 1960 – 12 September 1996) was an English journalist, author and editor of Screen International.

Biography Moore grew up in London and was educated at the independent The Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, going on to read English at Pembroke College, Cambridge, Moore himself has been described as "handsome, bright, witty, and gay," It is an autobiographical novel recounting the coming of age of a gay man, Hugo Harvey, who engages in sex from a young age and later, during university, works at least part-time as a prostitute, contracting HIV/AIDS in the mid-1980s before the advent of effective anti-HIV drugs. The novel describes the protagonist's relationships with his family (most significantly with his mother), his school friends, his casual sex partners, and with friends battling HIV/AIDS.

Legacy A book collecting his "PWA" columns was published a month after his death. A stage adaptation was produced in London in 2001.

After his death, EMAP, the publishers of Screen International, created The Oscar Moore Foundation as a trust fund to support European screenwriters.

Works A Matter of Life and Sex, 1991, Dutton, New York. . PWA: Looking AIDS in the Face, 1996, Picador, London. .