80s Quote by Michael Stipe

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

I remember my first friend who got sick. It was 1981, and the disease was called the gay cancer. I don't think the word…

— Ellen Barkin

Don't forget that at the end of the 70s people were much more into wild experimentation and hedonistic adventures. There was not really a…

— Eddy de Clercq

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

I was coming to be an adult, the AIDS epidemic happened. Moving to New York, watching that unfold, and watching the activism around that...…

— Kelly Reichardt

When the AIDS epidemic broke, because I happened to be a science nerd and knew a lot about viruses and a lot about that…

— Morgan Fairchild

I grew up in a different era. People were definitely afraid of HIV back then, but education also helped change the way we thought…

— Forrest Griffin

As a kid, I was terrified. I was a bed wetter, and I had to go to sleepaway camp every summer, which was humiliating…

— Sarah Silverman

I think I started out okay but with AIDS came a great deal of silence about gayness and this period of lose and morning,…

— Margaret Cho

We grew up in an era where there was a lot of fear of HIV. Everybody worried about it and everybody took precautions, and…

— Forrest Griffin

By the time [of modern] generation was coming of age sexually, there was already this idea of safe sex. But that didn't exist for…

— Michael Stipe