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Who was the last celebrity to die of AIDS?

I can't remember. Porn stars don't count.

by Anonymousreply 40September 15, 2018 12:18 AM

Last? Are they now immune?

by Anonymousreply 1November 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 Anonymousreply 2November 17, 2012 1:10 AM

It's just that all of them now are str8, r1.

by Anonymousreply 3November 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 Anonymousreply 4November 17, 2012 1:16 AM

The guy from FAME

by Anonymousreply 5November 17, 2012 1:17 AM

Helen Hayes

by Anonymousreply 6November 17, 2012 1:17 AM

Freddy Mercury is all I've got.

by Anonymousreply 7November 17, 2012 1:20 AM

Michael Jeter and Herb Ritts.

Also, a few of the people who were featured in Paris Is Burning.

by Anonymousreply 8November 17, 2012 1:23 AM

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by Anonymousreply 9November 17, 2012 1:40 AM

Rock Hudson.

by Anonymousreply 10November 17, 2012 1:42 AM

Yasser Arafat

by Anonymousreply 11November 17, 2012 1:44 AM

R10, that was the first celebrity to die of AIDS.

by Anonymousreply 12November 17, 2012 1:47 AM

R11 wins, at least officially

by Anonymousreply 13November 17, 2012 1:48 AM

Gil Scott-Heron? 2011. But maybe not famous enough to count.

by Anonymousreply 14November 17, 2012 1:58 AM

BRAD DAVIS WAS STRAIGHT!!!!

by Anonymousreply 15November 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 Anonymousreply 16November 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 Anonymousreply 17November 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 Anonymousreply 18November 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 Anonymousreply 19November 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'?

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by Anonymousreply 20November 17, 2012 10:09 AM

Anthony Perkins died of aids in '92.

by Anonymousreply 21November 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 Anonymousreply 22November 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 Anonymousreply 23November 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 Anonymousreply 24November 17, 2012 2:34 PM

Ofra Haza. Her husband gave it to her.

by Anonymousreply 25November 17, 2012 2:56 PM

Yes r24. We were deprived of another decade of this.

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by Anonymousreply 26November 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 Anonymousreply 27January 29, 2015 1:46 PM

I would say it would be in the early 90s. Now they all are bipolar.

by Anonymousreply 28September 14, 2018 9:02 PM

Aretha?

by Anonymousreply 29September 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 Anonymousreply 30September 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.

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by Anonymousreply 31September 14, 2018 9:25 PM

Seems like someone recently . I can not remember...

by Anonymousreply 32September 14, 2018 9:28 PM

George Michael or Prince

by Anonymousreply 33September 14, 2018 9:35 PM

Aretha Franklin

by Anonymousreply 34September 14, 2018 9:38 PM

Darling, they never did.

by Anonymousreply 35September 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 Anonymousreply 36September 14, 2018 10:09 PM

Pedro Zamora of MTV's Real World.

by Anonymousreply 37September 14, 2018 10:49 PM

Barbara Bush

by Anonymousreply 38September 14, 2018 11:24 PM

Prince

by Anonymousreply 39September 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 Anonymousreply 40September 15, 2018 12:18 AM
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