The RU-vid Channel for The HIV Story Project, producers of the award winning film STILL AROUND (2011) and KEEP THE PROMISE: THE GLOBAL FIGHT AGAINST AIDS (2013), narrated by Margaret Cho.
Jeanie is a amazing person and the best mom ever she's been through so much Very few people were there for them when Ryan was sick because of the stigma of AIDS. I'm so glad that she talks about this. And that they protect emotional. I don't think. They know enough back then to test factor for the AIDS virus. And it wasn't anyone's fault. Times were very different than male people that get HIV most can normal healthy lives. With the coctail they have now I just wish it was there in time for ryan and all the others jeanie we love you and we will never forget ryans strength& spirit & love for his family
"You can't know who you are if you don't know where you came from. They wouldn't be here today if it wasn't for the people who fought for them yesterday." Amazingly put Greylin, you are an amazing spokesman.
Randy and his brothers were amazing people. I feel so much sadness that the boys-and their family-suffered like they did. I feel disgusted that our blood supply was infected in the US all agencies involved knew it and they argued about dollars and cents while people like the Ray boys became infected with a fatal disease and suffered until their deaths. What a preventable tragedy. Also the ignorance of people back then was astounding. Death threats against innocent dying children? Burning their house to the ground? Excluding them from school?! Unbelievable. Randy is with his brothers again.
You want to see how terrible and narrow minded the religious community is? Just be different and all of this love your neighbor and love the sinner nonsense disappears. No one knows religious people better than the LGBT community. These aren’t morally enlightened people at all. Trust me.
Such powerful testimony. It really hits home for me, especially the diagnosis portion. I'm not HIV positive, but I was molested at a young age, too young to know about sex. And when I was about 7 or 8, it was World Aids day and all of the talk shows were discussing it. Me, not having a comprehension of sex, I watched all these shows and kept hearing "You can contract HIV from having sex with a condom," and I thought back to my molestation and the fact that we didn't use a condom. I just assumed that I had the infection, and it led to a very dark period of suffering in silence because I couldn't tell anyone about the molestation. It wasn't until sex ed, after a couple of years that I realized that I may not have HIV, but to go through that alone as a child was hard because I was very depressed and had many intrusive thoughts all because of the innocence of my ignorance. I'm not HIV positive, but I always sympathize with the struggle and the stories of people finding out about their diagnosis because in a weird way, I feel like I have a bit of solidarity with them.
i was 5 yrs old in 1985...the world i remember was full of fear bigots ignorance and stupidity! i remember everything! and that gives me the ability to see how much things have changed! and its because Ryan white educated the ignorant and the fearful. he educated all the adults who wer acting like total ass hats!. he accomplished so much! he changed the way people see things. hes a hero a real life hero! the people of Kokomo Indiana should be forever ashamed of their actions !
where can I find the article of Richard Burt with these compiled images if I may ask. I also want to thank you for these videos. im so touched and moved by the compassion and love. rip </3
It’s not a mystery. They were haemophiliacs and back then blood products were not screened for disease. Also, the blood was often donated by inmates who had used intravenous street drugs using dirty needles.
I hope this guy isn't too upset all of his video's comments are about superliminal... I hope he doesn't mind and takes the message that superliminal is an incredible experience and much more than a video game. Perhaps Dr. Glenn Pierce plays the game he stars in. :)
I remember meeting the Ray family in the 90s. My dad had hemophilia and we would go to activist events with the Ray family. I wasn't aware that 2 of the brothers passed away. God Bless this family
As a Black male, factor X deficient hemophiliac, I felt so alone. I knew no Black hemophiliacs and as of today I still only know 3. Im HIV negative, but I got accused of having HIV because Im a hemophiliac....but It warms my heart to see this. I love the NHF.
Dear Randy...May God bless you with a happy and healthy long life and may your brothers rest in peace. I don't know your family personally but I was deeply touched by your family's story. Keep on fighting and cling on to the best souvenirs shared with your loved ones.
