about, should i get in, you have to follow that path of arthur ashe and just push through it. you get criticism, but at the end of the day, it s more important that you do your job as a global citizen. you know, going back to arthur ashe, although he was a prominent activist for racial injustice abroad, he was very reluctant and very quiet to publicly share his hiv status. why do you think that was? why was it so much harder to speak up about it in, i think it was back in the 1980s. yeah, so, he finds out in 1988, he believes he contracted it in 1983 and what he was saying is that he was trying to protect his family. so, at that time, and many people probably don t remember, but if you had aids, it was not only a death warrant but people treated you awful. and he s trying to protect his family. he s got a young daughter at that time. and he believed if he came out, if he ever came out, which he did in 1982, there would be a lot of backlash not just towards him but his daughter. so
in the late 1980s, the aids epidemic was affecting millions around the world. curry had been diagnosed with hiv in 1987, and by1991 it had progressed to aids. john curry returned to the west midlands and spent his final years with his mother, rita, before passing away at the age of 1m. john s openness to his hiv status really set the groundwork for normalising what hiv as we know today is about. obviously, we lost millions of our community and people worldwide to this horrible virus. i did have an uncle who was gay who was banished from the family when he was 16 years old, and he passed away of hiv when i was 16, 17 years old and it broke my heart. i didn t quite understand what was going on at that point because he was really never spoken about within the confines of our immediate family, but i remember being absolutely heartbroken hearing of his passing because he died without knowing the love of his own mother.
in the late 1980s, the aids epidemic was affecting millions around the world. curry had been diagnosed with hiv in 1987 and, by1991, it had progressed to aids. john curry returned to the west midlands and spent his final years with his mother, rita, before passing away at the age of 1m. john s openness to his hiv status really set the groundwork for normalising what hiv as we know today is about. obviously, we lost millions of our community and people worldwide to this horrible virus. i did have an uncle who was gay who was banished from the family when he was 16 years old, and he passed away of hiv when i was 16, 17 years old and it broke my heart. i didn t quite understand what was going on at that point
that s really what my show is about. in the late 1980s, the aids epidemic was affecting millions around the world. curry had been diagnosed with hiv in 1987, and by 1991, it had progressed to aids. john curry returned to the west midlands and spent his final years with his mother, rita, before passing away at the age of 1m. john s openness to his hiv status really set the groundwork for normalising what hiv as we know today is about. obviously, we lost millions of our community and people worldwide to this horrible virus i did have an uncle who was gay who was banished from the family when he was 16 years old, and he passed away of hiv when i was 16, 17 years old and it broke my heart. i didn t quite understand what was going on at that point because he was really never spoken about within the confines of our immediate family, but i remember being absolutely heartbroken hearing of his passing because he died without knowing
millions around the world. curry had been diagnosed with hiv in 1987, and by 1991, it had progressed to aids. john curry returned to the west midlands and spent his final years with his mother, rita, before passing away at the age of 1m. john s openness to his hiv status really set the groundwork for normalising what hiv as we know today is about. obviously, we lost millions of our community and people worldwide to this horrible virus i did have an uncle who was gay who was banished from the family when he was 16 years old, and he passed away of hiv when i was 16, 17 years old and it broke my heart. i didn t quite understand what was going on at that point because he was really never spoken about within the confines of our immediate family, but i remember