Complex sentence: Due to its realistic look at urban gay life in the 1980s, many film critics consider it an important movie in the history of gay cinema, and one of the first American films to address the AIDS-HIV pandemic.
Split into simpler sentences: Due to its realistic look at urban gay life in the 1980s, many film critics consider it an important movie in the history of gay cinema. It was also one of the first American films to address the AIDS-HIV pandemic.