20 Famous Gay Celebrities Who Died Of AIDS

[@dasandbox2555]

Oh my goodness. What horrible background music. It doesn’t even match or relate to the subject whatsoever. Ugh

[@Myrtana1]

I totally agree. And they even show the wrong actors (e.g. Marlon Brando instead of Rock Hudson or the actor who played Freddy Mercury and so on).

[@karencahill4798]

In the early 1990’s my husband was sick, after much testing we discovered he was HIV positive. We had two toddlers at that time. We traced it back to an old girlfriend of his. Our children and I were negative. All there was at the time was AZT. We attended support groups in Ventura Calif. founded by the gay community- These young men were dying in droves. My heart broke for them as many were even shunned by their own families. A terrible time indeed. Joe died in 1997. My kids are now in their mid 30’s, I’m 68. Oh how my heart broke for these sweet boys and many who were hated and cursed by the masses.

[@lizrice-sosne5732]

I am so glad that you are here and healthy. I volunteered during the AIDS crisis. Then I ran an AIDS program working with over 500 men. They were dark, dark times. Ones that I shall never forget.

[@jabfree4eva]

AZT killed them.

[@kevfollett6965]

Sorry to read about your husband, he was so unlucky because the risk is four in 10,000 men contracting HIV from a woman, many specialist say it's even less than that, but they are the statistics given.

[@lilliesmith574]

🙏🌹💖

[@LindaConder-nn7uy]

@@lizrice-sosne5732

[@kishannaconandoyle1907]

My brother-in-law was HIV positive since 1986, he was 20 y old then. He had a good life with medicines, more then 30 years. He passed away suddenly 5 years ago of brain failure. One month after my husband, his younger brother who was HIV negative. I think it was the pain for loss of his beloved little brother. See you in heaven JL and Max. ❤

[@shaunfarber1334]

I am so sorry.

[@kishannaconandoyle1907]

@shaunfarber1334 ❤️😊

[@EviBall]

Yes we will see everyone in heaven ❤ im so sorry ⚘️🙏

[@buckbeak72]

Repost this without the aggravating music. Too loud, and unnecessary!

[@phoenixrising6245]

...and totally inappropriate!!

[@michaelciccone2194]

I agree! Annoying background music!

[@Brooke-j5v]

And re-edit it bc the pics often have nothing to do with what they are talking about.

[@IngenerateIngenue]

…and with correct spelling & grammar.

[@gjk540]

Some of the clips of Freddie Mercury were from the movie and were NOT Freddie Mercury.

[@nicolaking7798]

Yes I realised that as well

[@PompetusDad]

Stoopid video calling Koch, "coke". No one evetr call the mayor coke, rather his name was "kotch". And he did not die from aids, stop lying on the man. Kotch supported gay rights more than any other politician of his time, and fought the church valiantly in that effort. As a NYer i felt that kotch sucked but not more than your coke video.😂

[@Les1234ification]

Thank you!! I saw that! What a dumb move. That was Rami Malik at the top of the clip. 😮

[@LaurenLundt]

Really lol.

[@Floridaman1780_]

That's O.K. Val Kilmer looks more like Jim Morrison than Jim Morrison.

[@nanabutner]

We lost so many talented people in both the arts as well as the business fields from the 1980’s onwards! MAY THEY RIP

[@danniequesenberry9951]

The only way all of them as well as all the rest of us will rest in peace is if their souls were saved when they passed away ........the same is true for every person in this world.......no exceptions.........

[@SKULL-DUGGERY-2]

​@@danniequesenberry9951 Ronnie Reagan never mentioned AIDS until 1985. Made it easier to hate people that you don't like.

[@zephrancochrane7271]

@@danniequesenberry9951 Correct.

[@danniequesenberry9951]

@@nanabutner they wont rest on peace unless their souls were saved when they died.......

[@brettcantrell8650]

@@danniequesenberry9951 exactly but there is little chance that they thought of anything else besides segs. God and sin and repentance are scoffed at in the entertainment world.

[@angelaalvarez1462]

My sister died from HIV/AIDS, she had a chance to take the medicine but she didn't want to take it cause she felt that people would know she was a proud woman. Unfortunately we lost my sister in 90, it was a very heartbreaking time. I still think of her and wished that she had taken the medicine so she could have lived longer. Sleep In Peace my sweet sister, gone but never forgotten. We will always love and thonk of you.😢😇🙏🕊️❤️

[@Princess.ILovemyfamily1234]

May god protect you and your family from this horrible disease

[@christinejohnson5653]

One of my best male friends had HIV and happened to get the drug at that time in the early 90s but eventually he passed too. I'm so sorry about your sister. It touched everyone!

[@ConstanceSchell]

​@chris🎉,tinejohnson5653

[@viviennerose6858]

Rami Malek should not be included in this footage. Their are millions of genuine photos of gorgeous Freddie

[@zephrancochrane7271]

I wondered if that was Freddie. Thanks for clearing it up.

[@spiderlily4386]

​@@zephrancochrane7271Rami Malek was a disappointment to me. Didn't pull off the look.

[@chicochi3]

​@@spiderlily4386I thought it was just me. IMO RM looked nothing like FM.

[@kathrynpertz7384]

They misrepresent all the time on here

[@sarahsilverlight2064]

Gorgeous as Rami was, I don't think he looks anything like dear Freddie

[@kimberlyhackney8190]

I am a nurse. I took on HIV education in my hospital. I helped my colleagues learn how HIV was spread and how to avoid transmission of the 🦠 disease. Nurse began to accept and talk about HIV and teach family and patient how to care for themselves and loved ones. This education program promoted positive outcomes with staff and patients as well as families. I very proud of this program. I’m also proud that while teach I helped prevented the prejudice for Gay people, while being a Christian. I was the best way to learning to love my neighbors!

[@danniequesenberry9951]

Yes its good to try help these people .......but the best love any of us can show them is to teach all people how wrong gayism is ........like tobacco products.......alcohol...all drugs........THE BEST TIME TO STOP ANYTHING IS BEFORE YOU START.......INCLUDING GAYISM.......AS WELL AS ALL SIN.......WE ALL NEED SALVATION........

[@patriciacathcart9233]

​@@danniequesenberry9951gayism?

[@TammyBarnes-fg7yl]

That's what happen when you take it in the poop hole . Nasty

[@PollyChoklad]

​@@danniequesenberry9951I'm from SWEDEN 🇸🇪 and would never judge anyone like you do. Jesus loves EVERYONE no matter what..

[@danniequesenberry9951]

@@PollyChoklad honey you dont know everything youre talking about......taking up sinners dont help sinners......but if you are saved......your prayers can.....

[@Lyrakill]

why did they use someone else for Freddy Mercury at around 0:40 ?

[@denmcvalspiano9520]

some people should not do videos...

[@EviBall]

Irritating yes

[@Decgyrrl]

Brad Davis, was not gay. He was a herion addict. The use of shared needles in his past, was what caused his death from HIV. Brad Davis was a talented character actor, as was Freddie Mercury, was a lifted singer. He could sing in any octave. That is a gift from God.❤🙌🏽💯

[@loreygillam]

They were pretty clear on that point. Not sure how you missed it

[@silvy4413]

The narrator did not say he was gay. He specified it was drug related.

[@Decgyrrl]

@@loreygillam so why are u so offended? I commented too soon, sue me😒

[@Decgyrrl]

@@silvy4413 and so he did.....😒😒

[@jackbits6397]

@@loreygillam Well the title is " 20 famous gay celebrities..." so while they may have said it was because of dirty needles why was he included?

[@Toby-r8s]

I never knew about Ed Koch!😮

[@MF-qy2bm]

Why can't they upload videos with no background music at all?

[@wz0hjd]

MUTE... just a thought.

[@lesliegraham1279]

If you complain about the music in the background make it yourself and quit the criticism.

[@sweetmissypetuniawilson9206]

I gotta back you up on this! Although I didn't really notice it so much in this video, a lot of great vids were ruined bc of cr*p music! That has to be in the top 5, in the complaint dept, for videos! 💯 Leslie Graham, this is a public forum, anyone can make any comment they want as long as it meets yt guidelines, of course. You do not dictate what people can and can not comment. Who do you think you are? Mother of all? Good day! ✋️

[@sweetmissypetuniawilson9206]

​@@wz0hjd Mute huh? Then what? Read the whole video? Bc how do you hear the story with it muted? What else ya got?!

[@MF-qy2bm]

@@lesliegraham1279 thanks for your inconvenience

[@pamelabaars6896]

No music in the background it’s very distracting

[@YvetteJirsaraie-c4u]

This administration is bringing AIDS back at such an alarming rate!

[@DomRoy-w7r]

I agree.

[@pompom11]

I posted that too, I had to click away, and he pronounced many names and words wrong. 😠

[@antonmeyer7369]

Can't hear over the noise Please!

[@SweetieBee5]

…also, the music choice is annoying - actually music is not needed. Only need the dialogue with correct pronunciation of last names like Mayor Koch is pronounced “Kotch, rhymes with “notch”.

[@wz0hjd]

Abd he was not out as gay, so who knows and he did not die of AIDS. Facts matter!!!

[@festivelady826]

Thank you. I hate it when they mispronounce names.

[@DomRoy-w7r]

I too dislike mispronounced names.... IMO, it shows a lack of respect.

[@janetttyminski7295]

The book about the AIDS epidemic “And the Band Played On” was made into an excellent movie. Ignorance & prejudice continue to cause much pain in our society.

[@kittypaw1111]

I agree, people should stop lusting after sin and debauchery and embrace the Lord for their salvation.

[@freya8133]

​@@kittypaw1111Shut up 🙄

[@kittypaw1111]

@@freya8133 not sorry, Lucifer! Jesus is everything that is good in this life. Praise be to the Lord for His goodness and mercy and Hail Mary Mother of God. ❤️

[@roxannaallison]

@@janetttyminski7295 I watch it every year.

[@ServraghGiorsal]

Mt girl friends Mom had surgery for gall bladder, had a nicked artery and blood transfusion and got hiv. Small town Kansas scandal. No blood testing then 😢😢

[@My-blooming-garden24]

That happened so much before testing. Many contracted aids at no fault of their own. Will never forget the child Ryan white!

[@VC32Sniperrifle]

And how many people got AIDS from dental utensils. They weren't cleaned good, or throw away ones like they use now. No different than the shared needles. Scary times!

[@Turbocat77]

In the 80s- 90s American Red Cross was buying units of blood tainted with HIV/HCV from prisons and selling the blood to Hospitals.

[@zephrancochrane7271]

@@VC32Sniperrifle Yep, I remember stories about that happening.

[@judiland7772]

I had two patients in the heart unit in the 1980s in the San Francisco Bay area after they had open heart surgery. They were having some kind of health problems after their surgery and they were husbands and fathers, and they found out that they had been given aids infected blood. That was before they were testing for aids in the blood. It was a very sad time.

[@charlayned]

Another young gay actor who wasn't on this list was Merritt Buttrick, who played David Marcus in Star Trek: Wrath of Khan. He passed away from toxoplasmosis complication of A.I.D.S. on March 17, 1989 (aged 29). My brother came home from a convention with a silver champaign bucket. He had found Merrett in the lobby of their hotel with the bucket and a bottle. He invited him up to a party with a reading of a story he had written with a Star Trek story. Merritt loved it and asked my brother if he would trade the script with an autograph for the bucket. My brother was so very happy to do so. He said Merritt was a great guy and we loved his acting in many projects. I was very sad when he passed away.

[@Phat-khat]

Butt’rick had the right last name

[@kishannaconandoyle1907]

I didnt know he passed away.

[@kishannaconandoyle1907]

I didnt know he passed away.

[@charlayned]

@@Phat-khat You know, you could have done you entire life without insulting someone who was kind and is now dead. Shows what kind of person you are.

[@Norz-se9eb]

Nice 🙂

[@mombat1948]

Why are pictures of Marlon Brando in the middle of the Rock Hudson bio

[@roberthenry9319]

Because this is a trash video.

[@teetoo3790]

Marlon Brando had sex with Richard Pryor. Google it.

[@sandialdrich1308]

I have to agree that the background music was pretty bad. But some of these folks I didn’t know. But it’s sad all the same. 😢

[@sheilarosario-howie6190]

My dad passed away from. AID's related heart and lung failure in 1994, age 58. AID's isn't isn't what kills them, it's the secondary illnesses that do.

[@kurtgandenberger6139]

i am so sorry for your loss. i was treating AIDS patients in the period and managed several in the 2000's who lived many years. realize the soul is eternal and you will meet again. God bless. k

[@brettcantrell8650]

AIDS is a syndrome that causes the secondary illnesses...........so actually it is the AIDS or the immunodeficiency that kills them.

[@Pepito_1979]

And how did he get it ?

[@carolesmith2619]

Exactly 🎉🎉

[@CarlosEBernal]

I'm sorry for your loss, hugs

[@hannakinn]

I lost a very talented gay friend to aids in 1985, today with the drugs that are available he'd still be alive possibly with next to no viral load. It's sad to think of him dying in his mid 20s in a pretty horrific manner. A portrait of him was carried in one of the first parades to support efforts to battle aids and he has a block in the aids quilt. RIP Tacky Jeppi lots of us never forgot you my friend.

[@Phat-khat]

He shouldn’t have engaged in filthy acts

[@marigeobrien]

I'm 64. I was there. The name of the mayor of New York City in 1978 was pronounced "KoCH" with the "ch" at the end-- Koch. NOT like "coke." "Koch" (like coke) has only ever been pronounced that way by a big corporate millionaire. He wasn't. Ed Koch was a great mayor and great person. He deserves to have his name pronounced properly -- the way HE pronounced it.

[@suzum.9713]

I know a Koch family. They pronounce it Cook.

[@zephrancochrane7271]

Like "coach"?

[@carolesauter4205]

It’s a German name and German pronunciation. Not like cook.

[@kimarmstrong2010]

Thank you!

[@CleanFamilyVideos]

Pretty sure its pronounced "Ed Cock".

[@rightmadmod9416]

OMG. It’s Not ‘Ed Coke’, it’s Ed KOCH, rhyming with ‘watch.’ Native NYer here who grew up with him as mayor. ❤

[@edwardamosbrandwein3583]

It doesn't rhyme with "watch" since it's a German surname In that language, "ch" has the same sound as in the Scottish word "loch" (velar fricative, represented by the sound "x" in the International Phonetic Alphabet)

[@IreneSmith]

Thank you for saying that. It drove me crazy as well.

[@TheresaFraumeni]

Saw him from the bar on 7th and Bleeker St. Just a regular guy.by himself .

[@TheresaFraumeni]

​@@edwardamosbrandwein3583that irritated me too.

[@GypsyWays]

KOCH, would of been a great president! ...

[@roxannaallison]

My beautiful brother died of AIDS in 1998. I knew he was gay when he was only two years old. I love him and miss him and will always support this misunderstood community of great people.

[@morgantylerv9406]

@@roxannaallison That is very kind on steroids‼️

[@zephrancochrane7271]

when he was only two years old?

[@eugeniesissi8686]

@@zephrancochrane7271 I don’t speak English but I understand that the baby looks gay at 2 years.... ?

[@danniequesenberry9951]

@@roxannaallison im sorry.......but whats misunderstood......

[@mikieanthony777]

What a horrible thing to say about a baby.

[@sueostergaard8691]

The Rock Hudson segment has pix of Tab Hunter and Marlon Brando mixed in. There is a picture of Mr Rogers in Tony Perkins' segment.

[@roberthenry9319]

What does that tell us about Mr. Rogers?

[@thecelebrityfile_US]

Your story is a profound reflection of a deeply painful yet transformative era. The strength and resilience you showed, raising two toddlers while navigating such an unimaginable loss, is truly remarkable. The compassion you felt for the young men who faced not only illness but also rejection speaks volumes about your humanity. Those times were indeed heartbreaking, but stories like yours remind us of the love and empathy that shone through the darkness. Joe's memory, and the memories of all those lost, live on in the hearts of those who continue to fight for understanding and acceptance. Thank you for sharing such a deeply personal and touching piece of history

[@paulabaker6448]

I had no idea some of these people were gay. Very great performer's. Rock Hudson was the big shock to me growing up...I was 18 in the late 70s and then in the 80s we had AIDS. I've been there when it was first introduced. Scary to think i was so close but yet I was blessed. Blessings always.

[@quilijohn8634]

The main problem was not using protection…. Very sad! Why most of them are theatre performers?? Scary!

[@ulrikebush5025]

At that time I had surgery and needed blood. A friend was in the hospital at the same time and had blood too. Nobody really know much about HIV and he got sick due to the blood he got. It was a big wake up call.

[@quilijohn8634]

@ulrikebush5025 - OMG so sad for your friend. Just like US tennis great Arthur Ashe. He contracted HIV from blood transfusion while undergoing heart bypass operation & died from AIDS related (pnuemonia). Very sad & tragic. He was 49 years old!

[@dondamon4669]

How could you not know they were gay?😂 They obviously all were

[@paulabaker6448]

@dondamon4669 I was younger then they were. Probably older then you.

[@paulineiqbal5948]

It's such a tragedy so many innocent lives have been cut short by this ravaging disease. So sad. I miss Freddie, he was kind and loving, and he really loved his Beautiful Kitties ❤❤❤❤❤

[@VC32Sniperrifle]

Yes, he loved his cats! He had that vest he wore, embroidered with his cats on it!

[@SummerofKittyLove]

The innocent lives are blood transfusion victims

[@DomRoy-w7r]

I loved Freddie too.... and many of my gay friends died in the 80's and early 90's.... Sad, sad and still intolerant times!

[@lilliesmith574]

Prescious ***Loved*** by me the CatLady

[@lilliesmith574]

❤🎉👑💖🌹🙏💦💦💦💕✝️☮️☪️

[@gloriabarberi1292]

In the world of arts, ballet or skating, fashion or hairdressing, being gay has never been regarded as something "strange". Everybody knew who was such, and never bothered about it

[@SKULL-DUGGERY-2]

Gay people don't cause AIDS!

[@12341234W1]

True, I was just 18 when I met my soulmate at the academie where we were studying to become classical dancers, it never became a problem and later after becoming a principal dancer in a big company even less ! I remember by chance hearing about this new disease in the early eighties, I think because I was in a steady relationship with my partner that I never got infected, but so many of my collega's did, often dying in horrible circumstances, being abandoned by everyone ! A whole generation of talented young people that could have enriched the life of us all was lost to the world, so sad !

[@morgantylerv9406]

This is so very sad. Freddie Mercury was & still is the BEST FRONTMAN IN HISTORY‼️RIP FREDDIE MERCURY🙏💔🙏💔🙏💔

[@leecowell8165]

Steve Perry, Bono. nobody in the modern era could top Perry's voice. Before him.. Big O. Mercury wasn't in either of these guy's league.

[@kittycarlisle8416]

Roy Cohn - A NAZI MONSTER

[@charlottewagner715]

Miss Freddie still :*(

[@lindagriswell6088]

I​@@charlottewagner715

[@morgantylerv9406]

@@charlottewagner715 That's mean.

[@chiaradigiorgio1821]

I still love my Freddie Mercury rip ❤️

[@shaunfarber1334]

Why are pictures of people having absolutely nothing to do with the subject discussed being shown? A picture of a young Mr Rogers was shown. Why?

[@tonyshaw13]

sadly we have lose way way to many beautiful souls to that horrid illness, and it does not matter whether they were gay, bi. or straight, none of them should ever be forgotten

[@Sherriberri.]

To the content creator. The choice of using upbeat jazzy background music is inappropriate for the subject of this video. These people died. Tell me why you chose to use upbeat jazzy background music?

[@HilaryPea]

Not to agree with the content creator, for their choice, but to give a possible theory to your question. Yes, they died tragically and young. But, maybe the choice of music was to celebrate their life, not their death. To remember the happines and joy they brought to the people who knew or knew of them. Maybe that theory will help.

[@theraven6843]

@@HilaryPea NONO, not a good answer at all. It’s disturbing😮

[@nykkiflandiva7963]

To acknowledge when he was here and entertaining folks. Good memories.

[@caleba1538]

Are you offended I'm not

[@Sherriberri.]

@@HilaryPea I understand your point, but I disagree. Considering the subject matter. I find the music off putting.

[@lindaclarkq8326]

Rock Hudson was the first I remember..

[@snickerinmuttley1204]

@lindaclarkq8326, Ya, and then it was Libercrotchie I believe?

[@chrissimpson6701]

Me too, I was ,5 years old.

[@DeborahLohr-o5i]

Freddie Mercury had a great gift in music. We will never see anyone with his talent again. What an amazing voice he had.❤❤❤❤

[@DollshouseGirl1]

I loved Freddie Mercury what a shame, such a loss to music, there will never be someone like him again

[@dondamon4669]

Queen were never seen as important to music ever and Freddie Mercury solo stuff was seen as a joke so he wasn't a loss to music when never contributed anything anyway

[@robertbowman7395]

Does it bother anyone else that he pronounces and gets so many of the names wrong?!…. Who checks this?!😮

[@DomRoy-w7r]

I am as bothered as you are.... It's a lack of respect!!!

[@rosanamelin56]

He should at least find out how Koch is pronounced..

[@Minimi-mc1fx]

@@rosanamelin56not only his name. It’s disrespectful to all others

[@rocioaguilera3555]

Many complaints about the loud music. On my phone it's barely heard

[@sayjay26]

What I loved about Freddy Mercury is that he said he would not fix his teeth when asked if he would. He explained his teeth shaped his mouth which was his musical instrument, why fix something that is working.

[@angelahatmaker6746]

I remember having Freddy's posters on my walls growing up. My brother sat me down and trying to convince me Freddy was bisexual. I didn't want to believe him. Then my mom showed me a newspaper clipping of announcing he was sick. When i read the article, my brother goes "told ya sis." I ended up throwing the whole paper at him. Lol.

[@TaxusBaccata-c4n]

I remember Brad Davis in Midnight Express, my favorite movie of all times.

[@thomasvierling7676]

Aggree: poor choice of music

[@FranBrochu-y6i]

Its such a shame they left us quite young. May they all RIP.

[@ec5394]

May they all rest in peace.

[@didibutler-rm3mo]

Ed Koch did NOT die of AIDS! He was mayor during the AIDS epidemic, but died from something else many years later. And as a New Yorker I can assure you he pronounced his name as rhyming with Scotch.

[@Brembelia]

The Mayor of New York, Ed Koch, did not pronounce his name "Coke". He himself pronounced it "Kotch" like Scotch.

[@roberthenry9319]

Oh. Okay. Does this matter to anyone on earth?

[@starceleb-m8p]

It's wonderful how this video pays tribute to the great actors we've lost. Your work is truly meaningful!

[@jessicahartman3453]

When you talked about Denholm Elliott's credits, you forgot to mention "Brimstone and Treacle". A British movie starring Sting.

[@DomRoy-w7r]

Yes... very interesting film to be watched for lovers of older English films....

[@MerciCapili]

Even if they are Died Cause of HIV' THEY LEFT UNFORGETTABLE SHARES TALENT IN THE WORLD'S OF ART'S (ACTOR and Artists)

[@debramckay4611]

The photo on the intro was not gay. Brad Davis I believe his name was and starred in Midnight Express .I believe it was from a blood transfusion, as was the wife of Paul Michael Glazier.

[@cARLOSbocks-z3w]

Excellent audio quality and mixing.

[@brendaowens7463]

That’s terrible. No one should suffer alone.❤

[@clairelecuyer2382]

28:50 in the Rock Hudson story, please don't put Marlon Brando face instead if Rock Hudson. 😖

[@LaurelCurtis-t1f]

When AIDS was identified in the early 80s, I and most of my straight friends became celibate and stocked up on condoms in case we did indulge. I honestly never understood why gays were so careless when the consequence was death.

[@mindfulness1118]

What a cruel statement: ‘ I never understood why gays were so careless when the consequence was death’!! Seriously ????!!! Please do your research. Carefully. By the time HIV and AIDS came to the forefront, most individuals had already been infected. AIDS is not a gay disease either. It does not discriminate. It decimated the lives of millions of people. Politicians and Governments were ‘hesitant’ to really pull the trigger early on the warnings…… a painful and dreadful time in history. R.I.P to all those beautiful souls lost to this cruel disease. 💔

[@hushpup]

It certainly was not only gay men who were sick and dying through carelessness. Certainly in this part of the world. There is the cultural aspect, polygamy, not questioning or challenging men, education or lack thereof. People doing migrant work with the subsequent fracturing of families. I can't begin to tell you how many grandmothers were singlehandedly raising their grandchildren. And then of course there's the problem of humankind ie "it won't happen to me". Also, even in a marriage, none of us truly know whether or not our partner is playing away, straight of gay. The gay community is very complex for a whole lot of reasons, one of those being families who rejected them, and finding "new families" within the community. There were a lot of gay people getting married in order to not be shunned by loved one's and society, too, but eventually what the heart wants, the heart will be sure to get, and interludes - fleeting and secret - probably led to some recklessness as condoms weren't uppermost in minds. Some country's still have the death penalty for same- sex relationships, and some families will kill those who are seen as bringing shame to their family name. Geographic reasons - sometimes condoms aren't available, or available but not affordable. Then there are religious beliefs, taboos etc. Incorrect understanding of the virus and how it's transmitted. It's far too complex to go through the many factors re why people take a chance.

[@andrewfitzgerald2327]

@@LaurelCurtis-t1f this comes from someone misinformed by the press, government and ignorance. AIDS was identified in the late 70s HIV later as the precursor. Stocking up on condoms in the 80s was shutting the door after the horse had bolted. Sex was not the only way to get infected .Shared needles affected more straight! people and using sex workers. Governments in all countries ignored the disease because it only affected gay men. Then people with blood disorders were infected by untreated blood . By the time your friends bought condoms in the 80s the decease was already rampant. The Christian thing is and was not to judge or be judged but to help. HRH Diana did this, not treat humans like animals lock them away to die alone, in the past it was done to people who were Downs , born with disability, thankfully we have learned.

[@hemulinkulli]

Every bacteria/virus is curable alternative way..of course school medicine says otherwise because they would loose profits if the truth would come out..

[@hugobourgon198]

Stigmatisation always lead to a moment of emancipation that can be reckless. In other words, people that are discriminated often times force their own freedom. In the case of gays, the emancipation is sexual. Imagine forcing yourself to have sex with the gender you are not attracted to and pretending you love someone you don't really love. Once you'd be liberated from those chains, don't you think you would experiment things? Also, it was common practice even amongst heterosexuals to not protect themselves against STDs back in the days. This reckless emancipation phenomenon can be seen nowadays in kid actors and singers emancipating from Disney. Just think of Lindsay Lohan and Miley Cyrus.

[@Tla81]

I didn’t know Ed Koch had this terrible disease. I also didn’t know about Anthony Perkins either. I was in my late teens and in my 20’s in the 80’s. I was married and found out I was pregnant in mid 80s. Went in for blood work. The gentleman next to me during blood draw. Told the attendant that he was HIV positive. The attendant not only ran but, everyone in the ran out screaming. My attendant and I remained we told this gentleman that we were sorry about this and told him we would pray for him. We were in a military hospital. I wasn’t afraid of him.

[@MarlinWilliams-ts5ul]

Ed Koch, that was a shocker. He was a good Mayor.

[@jeffpowanda8821]

It's a shocker because Koch died of congestive heart failure, not AIDS.

[@MrTwotimess]

The late 80's was a horrible time for losing friends. The pubs ran empty and local performers dropped out of sight. And the stigma!

[@svendsen6437]

Wrong photos and annoying music. Couldnt watch.

[@roberthenry9319]

It is a fairly crappy video.

[@bsrlpar]

Freddy was a genius. I absolutely loved him .❤🇦🇺

[@johnmuller4014]

The Mayor of New York is pronounced: Kotch, not Coke.

[@jerralynnkinney2919]

Lol, when do they ever get names right????

[@sonnylatchstring]

I say Londen, you say London, I say Berlijn, you Berlin, I say Parijs, you say Paris

[@hugobourgon198]

It's a German name that can be pronounced Kosh or Koh (the h aspiration is exagerated, sounds almost like a French "r" or a Spanish "j") depending on the German accent. ✌️

[@timothydeanlee1175]

thank you.

[@Luc-m9v]

Right! Thats the way he himself pronounce it. Thats what counts.

[@patttyannhudson]

I was so heartbroken back then and although I had seen a couple of gay people i didn't know anyone gay or anything back then it was like that I just remember no way to help anyone except death i used to just think horrible horrible thoughts about all this i feel bad for everyone who passed of aids terrible thing

[@feliciageorgeson3607]

Perkins was wonderful in the movie “ Do you like Bhrams” as a young man in live with an older woman Ingrid Bergman.

[@TINAMIAOULI]

I lost so many fruends from aids. My generation was the one that held the most promise post ww2. My generation was bursting with talented people from all professions and walks of life. Designers, hairdressers, actors, choreographers, musicians, djs, models, dancers and entertainers. Gone. All gone.

[@theresah6667]

too much background music.

[@_Y.Not_]

Ed Koch is pronounced as rhymes with watch or notch NOT coke.

[@patrickduffy8514]

I PRAY YOUR DEAR BROTHER RESTS IN PEACE 🎉❤shari❤

[@villagegirl4life]

oh my god that music is driving me bonkers!!!!!

[@jdub78]

I agree.

[@southernrose48]

Mute and put on closed caption. I couldn't take that music either!

[@patriciadaniels2688]

It’s A Diversion From The Sad Facts.

[@l.janecliftonrozell4707]

Being gay has nothing to do with how great these people were So glad it’s not hidden anymore I have many gay friends I love each one of them as a straight woman it just don’t matter just love one another ❤it’s not contagious RIP all you wonderful people you all changed our lives in many ways❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@Dollbaby630]

Facts. 💯

[@kellyanderson7624]

Everyone loved Freddie Mercury and most people knew he was gay. Nobody cared.

[@kimberlystage1906]

They won't go to heaven.

[@mariavalle3085]

❤ respect to all of them...🙏

[@mrsdiana324]

So pleased that the advances in treatment means people contracting hiv can do lots of things to prevent it becoming full Blown AIDS

[@lizleague7084]

Liberace had such an amazing stage presence and looked overjoyed when he played his beloved piano.

[@stellapatchouli2730]

They show the actor who played Freddie mercury in a movie as Freddy Mercury. They dont even know who is who..

[@tinaslaughter5293]

This video should have included Raymond St.Jacques in 1990, Timothy Patrick Murphy 1988 and Dack Rambo in 1994. All died of AIDS. Rambo was bisexual.

[@deeannaestep9375]

Yes, I had forgotten about Dack Rambo. Loved him in Another World.

[@sloderman]

Патрик Коули!

[@deniseackermann7116]

MUSIC IS UNNECESSARY AND ANNOYING AND TOO LOUD...

[@Cyn-no8cl]

I can't finish it. I don't know why creators do that.

[@bf1822]

Turn down the volume and turn on the close caption (cc)..

[@DebNorris-fh5rf]

THEY NEED TO (TALK UP) ...I CAN BARELY HEAR HIM ....!

[@JayYoung-ro3vu]

I got through two personalities before I stopped. ​@Cyn-no8cl

[@LindaPhillips-d6s]

I grew up on Rock Hudson and Doris Day movies I still think of them fondly

[@thisisme3238]

Content is very interesting, but the background music is way too loud.

[@deeannaestep9375]

Respectfully, I wish you had included the immensely talented Tony Hamilton, actor and dancer, known for Mission: Impossible (1988) and Jon-Erik Hexum's successor on Cover Up. Might have been the next James Bond if it were not for the rumors surrounding his sexuality. Lost to AIDS far too soon, at age 42, in 1995. Forever loved and missed. ❤

[@kaliarisam7868]

Let them Rest in Peace without your erroneous statements.

[@carolynsims5243]

God lead these awesome actors into a new journey into Heaven above Amen Amen Amen 🙏 ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@fresh-eggs]

There's no credible evidence to show or support a God in existence anywhere in reality.

[@irishledden4924]

@@fresh-eggs Wrong again, Susan.

[@binkleyrules]

Who cares about their sexuality. It's sad when anyone dies.

[@TheG4heath]

Satan cares. He gets the gays.

[@yvonnebaur4485]

First time here. Good vid dude.

[@FloCatone]

It’s there business the way they are I don’t discriminate against them. I don’t discriminate against anybody for the way that they are. That’s their choice and nobody’s else’s business.

[@tediguerrero5358]

And I can reassure you that the innocents who contacted Aids through blood tranfusions would think it was certainly thier business!

[@freya8133]

​@@tediguerrero5358Not anyone's fault!! 🤦‍♀️

[@SweetieBee5]

The Mayor of New York is pronounced: Kotch, not Coke. (Kotch rhymes with notch).

[@charlottewagner715]

I don't know why he calls himself Kotch, because in German it means vomit, and it's also a slang word in English

[@dianeribaudo956]

Narrators need to learn how to pronounce names!!! Koch is pronounced kotch.

[@dalredmond5879]

You are wrong my Dear

[@freya8133]

​@@dalredmond5879Nope he is correct.

[@allsluv9885]

@ 41:22, That is a picture of Mister Rogers, not Anthony Perkins.

[@timothydeanlee1175]

Roy Cohn was also a mentor for Trump.

[@anitakinnear6735]

A despicable one at that. Trump was always with Cohn, and learned his attack, counterattack courtroom conduct from him. Cohn, who was a despicable and disliked person, also refused to pay his bills, and tutored Trump in doing the same. When Cohn got sick and was dying, with AIDS, Trump mostly abandoned him, and didn’t attend his funeral. Trump once sent him a set of “diamond” cufflinks, which turned out to be as fake as Trump’s own tan and hair.

[@anreeder4101]

Please please turn the music down it's far ro loud

[@Thisworldisgoingcrazy]

Much of the footage that was supposed to be Freddy Mercury are not him , it’s an actor who played him in the bohemian rhapsody movie.

[@louisefarber7573]

I enjoy the content, but the music is annoying, I can’t finish this video.

[@joshuaconnelly2415]

So sad. These were my brothers, and they died from a terrible disease. Just as the potato blight of Ireland in 1847 was hatefully managed into a horrible famine, HIV/AIDS was hatefully managed into a purge of my fellow gays. God rest their souls. I try to help now the way we all should have helped back then. I regret serving a Mormon mission; I should have stayed in San Francisco and helped my suffering gay brothers.

[@Kiss_lynda]

This is a heartbreaking disease and I would not want anyone to suffer. Wts, it goes to show God’s way is best. Being holy and being with a godly person is God’s plan. Doesn’t mean god wants people to stay in abusive relationships. But love and sex isn’t something people should play with. There’s a reason god has laws. They make a better LONGER life

[@joshuaconnelly2415]

@@Kiss_lynda, what laws are those? Paul banned premarital sex, and you call it God's law. Paul banned extramarital sex, and you call it God's law. Paul banned gay sex, and you call it God's law. Paul banned marital sex, and you say that was just him and is therefore non-binding. More people die and cut their lives short, as you would say, by eating cheeseburgers and fries, but you focus on gays, not for God, but out of bitter and blighted bigotry. Look within, Lynda. Look within.

[@AP1977plus2]

Why use footage from a movie? thats not Freddie in some parts of your video

[@sharonwashington8150]

Who would have guessed some of these well known names were Gay until now? not me for sure, but at the end of the day its the contribution they made for great entertainment that matters above anything else.

[@annisevans2862]

Bless Everyone🙏🏻 Rest In Peace 🕊️

[@notperfect3180]

They ain’t resting in no peace if they didn’t repent especially the ones who took their own life😣

[@ROKgem]

​@notperfect3180 go lay down, your just talking out your bum.

[@dunstonmartina1234]

Thy wont Rest in Peace ,Not If they keeped on with this Beaver

[@andrewfitzgerald2327]

Don't you think this is getting old, AIDS was a terrible disease not taken seriously until it affected the wider population. No one actually died from Aids on the death certificate it would state Aids related . Perhaps it's time to leave these beautiful souls rest not attack them in death.

[@hushpup]

I agree that those who wanted to remain private should never be outed after their passing. Besides that, I think people shouldn't forget how many souls were taken by this cruel disease. I believe the cruelty of stigmatising this virus should be known about by generations who have been born into a world that is more tolerant than people were back then. It's not perfect, but at least it's improved. x

[@andrewfitzgerald2327]

@@hushpup yes totally, l worked with people with Aids in the 80's but here in the UK we had a primininister who wasn't interested in it because she thought it wouldn't effect her popularity. Her best friend was Regan , although not involved with the NHS now l do volunteer at a clinic. It amazes me how the youth think Prep will cure them and Aids really does not exist it's a thing of yesterday.

[@hushpup]

You mean Thatcher? I remember both her and Reagan weren't interested. We were the same in South Africa, even after AZT was available. Our Minister of Health and our President at the time absolutely refused to make medicine available. The Minister of Health told people to eat beetroot and African potatoes! I saw heartbreaking things during that time. A young couple and their newborn baby died. The man was a migrant worker from Zimbabwe, working in South Africa to make money to send home. He was very good looking and unfortunately had many girlfriends, His live-in girlfriend was pregnant and gave birth, but the baby, the mom and the dad all started getting very sick. He said all the doctors at the hospital could offer was Panado, which of course did nothing. First the baby, then the mom and then the dad all passed away. The little family unit was gone. We later found out that he was married in Zimbabwe and that his wife was sick and so was their baby. And there were people who were angry with him, but at that stage, it was too late, and so much loss.The kids are taught about HIV currently, but not very much is said, if anything, about the reality of what was happening. The President was replaced, and although his replacement caused problems in his own way, at least he welcomed medication. x

[@andrewfitzgerald2327]

@@hushpup yes, but the name sticks in my throat ,she was evil. The press loved her, all public school boys who were scared of a woman . It was so sad how many died unnecessarily so many lives could have been saved. I have often left a consultation in disbelief at some of the things said. I know it's on the school syllabus here but not compulsory. It happens to someone else like pregnancy. Have a good day.

[@hushpup]

@@andrewfitzgerald2327 I'm so sorry, the governments don't want anyone to be reminded let alone admit to any responsibility for their part in it. So sad. You have a good one too, x

[@judithkempf7252]

Music is unnecessary and makes me want to find something else to watch.

[@nathelondon3719]

I’ve never heard of Willy wear. But then I don’t even wear underwear!

[@judilynn9569]

If you weren’t into fashion, you probably wouldn’t have. As a young aspiring fashion designer, I was in LOVE with Willywear! My heart absolutely broke when he died.

[@ednaatluxton4918]

Freddie had the most unique, amazing voice that will never be matched. He left everything to his first love mary but she put his mansion up for sale this year. He only ever loved her but she couldnt stay with him while he had flings with men. He wasnt really bi because he hated the men he had.

[@freya8133]

Except the last one.