Age Quote by Todd Haynes

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

When I started out, no one would talk to young people about HIV or AIDS. I looked around and radio looked like a powerful…

— Drew Pinsky

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 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

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

I had seen AIDS patients in India and Africa, and knowing that people were dying even though drugs existed that could help them was…

— Yusuf Hamied

The first people who died of AIDS were artists. They were the most interesting people.

— Fran Lebowitz

I just feel I've got thousands and thousands of young fans that have to learn about what's real when it comes to AIDS.

— Eazy-E

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

The first guy who got Aids was a French flight attendant. How you like that Frenchie! You know when I come back and run…

— Bill Burr

I read a newspaper article in May 1984 which predicted that syringes would one day be a major cause of the transmission of HIV.…

— Marc Koska