Aids Quote by Ellen Barkin

My first understanding of HIV and AIDS was like everybody else from my generation. In the mid-'80s, we heard about this, and it was…

— Annie Lennox

What happened in the 80's was that all the men died of AIDS. That was a particularly depressing time because so many people passed…

— Margaret Cho

In the 1980s we had the huge catastrophe of AIDS and you would walk down the street and see someone who was dying. It…

— Leslie Jordan

When AIDS first appeared, people didn't know what it was. You'll remember that it affected mostly young gay men - it was actually called…

— Seth Berkley

AIDS had landed and I was terrified. I was very scared, just as everyone was in the '80s. It was really hard to be…

— Michael Stipe

My work with AIDS patients started right at the beginning of the epidemic, totally unplanned and spontaneous, as all my work had proceeded in…

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived…

— Peter Lewis Allen

Peter Jennings came to us and said to make a PSA, 'Let's Talk About AIDS.' But I was naive about how the virus is…

— Pepa

The effect of AIDS was like a war in a minute country. Like, in World War I, a whole generation of Englishmen died all…

— Fran Lebowitz

My first AIDS campaign was in 1985. There was this dark cloud, everybody was socially inspired - we hadn't seen social consciousness like that…

— Kenneth Cole

I actually came out the year that AIDS hit the front pages. So there was this mixed feeling about it - excitement that life's…

— John Cameron Mitchell

'Longtime Companion' was really the first movie that I know of that addressed the problem of AIDS. This was back in the '80s that…

— Tony Shalhoub