I can't remember. Porn stars don't count.
Who was the last celebrity to die of AIDS?
by Anonymous | reply 40 | September 15, 2018 12:18 AM |
Last? Are they now immune?
by Anonymous | reply 1 | November 17, 2012 1:05 AM |
Michal Jeter and Gene Anthony "Hot Ass" Ray both died in 2003. They're the latest ones I can find from the front page of a Google search. Someone less lazy than I might come up with a more recent one.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | November 17, 2012 1:10 AM |
It's just that all of them now are str8, r1.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | November 17, 2012 1:10 AM |
No idea what the answer to OP's question is, but for some reason this thread just reminded of Antony Hamilton, whom I haven't thought of in a while. He died in '95 or '96.
The '90s don't seem like that long ago, but it was such a huge shift in worldview to go from so many people dying of AIDS, constantly, to a world where people can sometimes be so cavalier about HIV, that it almost seems like another life.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | November 17, 2012 1:16 AM |
The guy from FAME
by Anonymous | reply 5 | November 17, 2012 1:17 AM |
Helen Hayes
by Anonymous | reply 6 | November 17, 2012 1:17 AM |
Freddy Mercury is all I've got.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | November 17, 2012 1:20 AM |
Michael Jeter and Herb Ritts.
Also, a few of the people who were featured in Paris Is Burning.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | November 17, 2012 1:23 AM |
Rock Hudson.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | November 17, 2012 1:42 AM |
Yasser Arafat
by Anonymous | reply 11 | November 17, 2012 1:44 AM |
R10, that was the first celebrity to die of AIDS.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | November 17, 2012 1:47 AM |
R11 wins, at least officially
by Anonymous | reply 13 | November 17, 2012 1:48 AM |
Gil Scott-Heron? 2011. But maybe not famous enough to count.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | November 17, 2012 1:58 AM |
BRAD DAVIS WAS STRAIGHT!!!!
by Anonymous | reply 15 | November 17, 2012 2:00 AM |
Very few people die from AIDS, though it's possible. Technically you get sick and die from something else.
Undoubtedly thousands of famous people are HIV+, the same way thousands of famous people are infected with STIs each year. But you'll never know as they'll just take their AIDS meds and you won't know.
Unless they have the AIDS hump or something.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | November 17, 2012 7:22 AM |
RE 8 - didn't Herb Ritts family officially say he died from Cancer ? I know it was AIDS, but someone told me they didn't want that to be the 'official' reason.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | November 17, 2012 7:43 AM |
We get it. AIDS related death. A lot of times when it's about celebrities the 'AIDS related' part gets dropped in their press release euology.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | November 17, 2012 7:53 AM |
What did Nick Ashford die of? I seem to recall a lot of rumors online about him having AIDS.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | November 17, 2012 8:31 AM |
R6, excuse me but that struck me. What are you talking about? Helen Hayes didn't die of Aids. You have any evidence to support your 'bomb'?
by Anonymous | reply 20 | November 17, 2012 10:09 AM |
Anthony Perkins died of aids in '92.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | November 17, 2012 10:20 AM |
Herb Ritts died of AIDS, but the reason was - quite shamefully IMO - given as pneumonia at the time of his death. When reporters probed, his estate gave the response that - I kid you not - he was HIV positive but the cause of his death was the pneumonia that took advantage of his weakened immune system - WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT DYING OF AIDS IS. A very shameful end for someone who had spent his life at the forefront of gay visibility.
He caught the pneumonia while shooting Ben Affleck for Vanity Fair on an unseasonably cold day in desert outside Los Amgeles. He had been poz since the 80s. He only told his mother, who was practically his faghag, that he had AIDS the day before he died.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | November 17, 2012 10:56 AM |
R19 He truly had throat cancer. Sadly, he was the type of fellow who was really into having a stiff drink or two or three and cigarette smoking.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | November 17, 2012 12:14 PM |
Does anyone think that the pop culture from the 90s on sucks so much b/c we lost a couple of generations of tastemakers?
by Anonymous | reply 24 | November 17, 2012 2:34 PM |
Ofra Haza. Her husband gave it to her.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | November 17, 2012 2:56 PM |
Yes r24. We were deprived of another decade of this.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | November 17, 2012 2:58 PM |
They all have the AIDS, but due to HIPPA laws and other things the liberal agenda passed, we lack protection from these perverts under the guise of medical privacy.
When you go around infecting people with a deadly illness, I think your right to privacy flies out of the window.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | January 29, 2015 1:46 PM |
I would say it would be in the early 90s. Now they all are bipolar.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | September 14, 2018 9:02 PM |
Aretha?
by Anonymous | reply 29 | September 14, 2018 9:18 PM |
It is Way Bandy, not Wade.
Way Bandy was an American make-up artist. During the 1970s, Bandy became one of the most well known and highest paid make-up artist in the fashion industry. Photographer and frequent collaborator Francesco Scavullo called Bandy "one of the great makeup artists of our time."
Born: August 9, 1941, Birmingham, AL Died: August 13, 1986, New York City, NY
Partner(s): Michael Gardine (1973–1985)
Cause of death: AIDS-related pneumocystis carinii pneumonia
Books: Designing Your Face, Styling Your Face: An Illustrated Guide to Fifteen Cosmetic Face Designs for Women and Men
by Anonymous | reply 30 | September 14, 2018 9:21 PM |
If you stretch the definition of celebrity, I'd say Alexis Arquette was the last "famous" person to die from HIV-related complications.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | September 14, 2018 9:25 PM |
Seems like someone recently . I can not remember...
by Anonymous | reply 32 | September 14, 2018 9:28 PM |
George Michael or Prince
by Anonymous | reply 33 | September 14, 2018 9:35 PM |
Aretha Franklin
by Anonymous | reply 34 | September 14, 2018 9:38 PM |
Darling, they never did.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | September 14, 2018 9:57 PM |
I remember 1995 being a big year for AIDS deaths. As if people hung on for so long then they started to die. Sad that it was just before “the cure” - which started to kick in by late 90s. Very subtle but dramatic turnaround - it took me 5-6 years to accept that the new drugs were really working.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | September 14, 2018 10:09 PM |
Pedro Zamora of MTV's Real World.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | September 14, 2018 10:49 PM |
Barbara Bush
by Anonymous | reply 38 | September 14, 2018 11:24 PM |
Prince
by Anonymous | reply 39 | September 14, 2018 11:39 PM |
R31, I was coming here to say the same with regards to Alexis Arquette.
R36, I totally agree. Entertainment Weekly used to do an annual issue dedicated to those in entertainment who passed from AIDS. They started the section in the early 90s and it was approximately 2 pages but by '95 the section was literally 5 or more pages long.
Then sudden by '97, the section no longer appeared. For me, that's when I knew a shift in survival rates had occurred.
by Anonymous | reply 40 | September 15, 2018 12:18 AM |