I don’t think there is a scene in this that isn’t heartbreaking, however, the poster depicting a small child arms outstretched saying ‘I have AIDS, please hug me, I can’t make you sick’ rips my heart open and makes me long to hug each and every one 😭❤️
ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NSjYwMEYats.html Please look at this video. It is about people holding a sign saying "I'm gay, would you hug me?"
I remember watching it again a couple years after release and seeing this as a new father and the tears started flowing. Even watching it now had the same reaction, this time to the homeless man holding the sign that he is waiting for SSI.
Every time I hear this song I cry for all of my friends who died of this insidious disease. Especially Michael my close and bff from university who died over 20 years ago and who I took care of in my apartment for the last 5 months of his life. I miss you Michael Nazareth & I Love You Forever
RIP to my great uncle Donald Bingey Porteous. I still keep your artwork in good condition to keep your memory. Gone but never forgotten. 3 Jul 1950 - 10 Sep 1986, Memphis, TN
So sorry to hear aids is something that never should have started all a government thing so many beautiful and talented people are gone this video brings me to tears all the time rest in peace
The gay youth today have no idea how much hell we lived through for their future and for what an ungrateful gay youth they have no clue what was done for them
Don Francis: It didn't need to happen. We could've stopped it. Bill Kraus: (ailing on his deathbed) Can you still...? DF: ...stop it? I don't know. BK: I used to be afraid of dying, but I'm not anymore. I'm more afraid for those who live. That scene gets me every. single. time.
Yes, it’s haunting. ‘We could have stopped it’ So many officials turned their backs, who knows how many tens of thousands could have been saved?. Yes I agree that scene says so much in just a few words. ❤️
A few years ago I was working at an Advertising Agency in Las Vegas and one of our clients was AFAN - Aid for AIDS of Nevada. We had asked if clients would be willing to come in for a photo shoot. It was a diverse gathering and I appreciated everyone coming. There was a gentleman who was so sick and consumed with the final stages of AIDS that he spent most of the time throwing up in the bathroom. He was there and fighting for the cause. I don't know his name but I remember his strength.
Ryan white gets me every time. For a kid who did nothing and the whole town attacked him was awful. There were brothers in Florida that contracted it and they burnt their house down. Its unbelievable what these people went through. I was a kid when this happened and I remember the sentiment everyone that had it deserved it. I dont ever want to go without compassion for anyone suffering again.
@@GenXFarmer77 universal health care wouldn't have helped the stigma that kids like Ryan White experienced. the dollars and cents matter...but compassion is free to give from your heart.
@@GenXFarmer77 of course it doesn't. it also doesn't have anything to do with preventing the next Ryan White...health care is good, just no connection to people who suffered from social bigotry due to AIDs.
This is what happens when people start to think of their fellow human beings as somehow "lesser" than them; and this is also what happens when people stand up and say "no more, all people have worth, and all we really have is each other..."
This is one of the most touching and beautiful songs I have ever heard. I barely remember the AIDS era of the 80's, but my heart really heavy when I think of the whole thing. Such ignorance and neglect, so much could have been done..such a shameful part on the human race.
That's a simplistic understanding of the virus and how the epidemic developed. It took thousands of years for the virus to jump from primates to humans and turn into an epidemic. You can thank Nixon and the War On Cancer for the research dollars that went into studying the immune system and infectious diseases. If it wasn't for this funding the epidemic could have been far greater.
I watched this movie years ago, and this song and video have always stuck with me. At that time, I'd lost nobody to AIDS. Since then, I've lost a loved one to AIDS. The disease is summed up in 4 little letters, and I really have no words to convey how crushing a disease/death can be. This song and video strike me on a whole different level now. God bless everybody fighting and living with this disease. Sending you my love 🙏🏾
All these years later and this still makes me cry 😢 To many lives lost. May God hold you all in his arms 😇 I can remember working on the quilt in the 80’s I wish they would still display it in it’s entirety again.
Thank you Elton for releasing the music rights to this......Generations will only get to experience the epidemic from tributes like this....we lived it. ;(
Still so moving and brings tears to my eyes. This is an amazing, well made film, and I applaud HBO for having the guts to make it in the first place. I hope one day to live in a world without HIV/AIDS.
Very touching song by Elton John and the images of all the celebs who died from AIDS complications. We also have celeb supporters there who have passed away too.
A moving tribute that always brings on tears but they should have included the footage of Roberto Duran holding his former foe Esteban de Jesús right before he died of complications from AIDS in 1989
I had to watch this for school. No movie ever made me more mad and sad at the same time. The actors were great, the facts were stark, and this song at the end... I started crying in the middle of class. I wanted to use Francis' speech as a monologue for acting class, but it wasn't long enough. "How many dead hemophiliacs do you need? How many people have to die to make it cost effecient for you people to do something about it? A hundred? A thousand? Give us a number so we won't annoy you again until the amount of money you begin spending on lawsuits make it more profitable for you to save people than to kill them!" His passion with that speech was so tangible, you would think you were watching it as it really happened.
Dude, same here. And the look on his boss' face when he did that....like he admired him for standing up and saying what he wished he had the guts to say himself, but at the same time was upset because he knew what the outcome was going to be. ("Your outburst at the meeting crushed the credibility of the CDC!!")
This song is a real tearjerker. I had a high school classmate who died of AIDS about seven years after graduation. I went to his open-casket wake and his physical appearance hadn't changed at all. It was little comfort knowing that he didn't suffer long.😔
@@mikecrook9127 speaking of which you managed to be a dick and an asshole in just one short comment, congrats! not only gay people have died from AIDS, you ignorant twat.
@@Ciclopea2 I get what you are saying to that dude, but does it matter who died? No one, no matter who they are, or what they believe, should die due to ignorance or unspoken bias. Which is what happened in the 80's, with AIDS
I must have watched this movie dozens of times since it was released and this part unleashes complete uncontrollable sobs every time. I lived through this and lost so many people… the CDC refused to do anything until it got way out of control.
I will forever be proud to remember that while all of this horror was happening I participated in my own small way in raising money and awareness for this disease, protesting with ACTUP--even by the late 80s so many people were still not concerned much with all of the people that were dying
@@PioneerGrrrl It was a difficult time. Many men and women died ashamed and shunned. They would be in absolute awe today seeing how treatable it is and how it can pushed into remission.
I tried to create complete list of those shown in the video in order of appearance: 1. Roger Gail Lyon (text) - AIDS activist, died of HIV/AIDS in 1984 at the age of 36 2. Bobby Campbell (text) - AIDS activist "KS poster boy", 1984 @ 32 3. Ryan White - AIDS activist visited by Michael Jackson, 1990 @ 18 4. Rock Hudson and Doris Day - actor, 1985 @ 59 5. Anthony Perkins - actor and singer, 1992 @ 60 6. Tina Chow - model and jewelry designer, 1992 @ 41 7. Rudolf Nureyev - ballet and contemporary dancer, 1993 @ 54 8. Arthur Ashe - professional tennis player, 1993 @ 49 9. Musical Chorus Line - co-writers (not shown) Nicholas Dante (1991 @ 49) and James Kirkwood Jr. (1989 @ 64) 10. Michael Bennett - musical theatre director, writer, choreographer and dancer, 1987 @ 44 11. Liberace - pianist, singer and actor, 1987 @ 67 12. Freddie Mercury - lead vocalist of the rock band Queen, 1991 @ 45 13. HRH Diana, Princess of Wales, the mother of Prince William, Duke fo Cambridge and Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex 14. Elizabeth Taylor, actress, businesswoman and humanitarian 15. Elizabeth Glaser - AIDS activist and child advocate, 1994 @ 47 16. Earvin "Magic" Johnson - professional (now retired) basketball player, alive 17. Larry Kramer - playwright, author, film producer, public health advocate and LGBT rights activist, alive 18. Arthur Ashe (see 8.) 19. Alison Gertz - AIDS activist, 1992 @ 26 20. Max Robinson - first African-American broadcast network news anchor in USA (ABC World News Tonight), 1988 @ 49 21. Halston (Roy Halston Frowick) - fashion designer, 1990 @ 57 22. Willi Smith (text) - fashion designer, 1987 @ 39 23. Perry Ellis - fashion designer, 1986 @ 46 24. Peter Allen - singer-songwriter, musician and entertainer, 1992 @ 48 25. Steve Rubell - entrepreneur and co-owner of the legendary New York disco Studio 54, 1989 @ 45 26. Keith Haring - pop art and graffiti-like artist, 1990 @ 31 27. Stewart McKinney - politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, 1987 @ 56 28. Denholm Elliott, CBE - actor, 1992 @ 70 29. Brad Davis - actor, 1991 @ 41 30. Amanda Blake - actress, 1989 @ 60 31. Robert Reed - actor, 1992 @ 59 32. Michel Foucault (text) - philosopher, historian of ideas, social theorist and literary critic, 1984 @ 57 33. Ryan White (see 3.) 34. ? ( I was thinking of John Curry but does not look alike) 35. ? 36. ? 37. ? (I was thinking of Joel Resnicoff but not sure) 38. ? ("pumpkins") 39. ? ("wheelchair") 40. ? (might be Elizabeth Glaser, see 15.) 41. ? 42. ? (man in the group photo) 43. ? (professional player? I was thinking of Bill Goldsworthy or Jerry Smith but they do not look alike) 44. Tom Waddell, MD - competitor at the 1968 Summer Olympics (high jump), 1987 @ 49 Please, comment below if you have and idea about some of the persons in 34-43.
I don’t think 33 is Ryan White, doesn’t look like him in fact I been asking myself who is that boy. As for the wheelchair ladies, I think it might be Alison Gertz and her mother, I could be wrong thou.
I'm from Portugal. I was born in 1976 and I remember well all the deaths and sadness and sorrow in the 80s and 90s. I saw And band played on in 1994. All that faces in the end of that film are bodies and souls that we can't forget. Thank you for put the names and the ages of those who are living through our present lives. In Portugal many talent people's were lost to hiv-aids. For those who live in the states but have some kind of relation to Portugal, remember : António variações - songwriter (1944-1984) One of the most incredible voices of (not only) Portuguese music.
brian cc This is the internet. No one keeps their opinions to themselves. And I stand behind my comments. They brought it upon themselves for being gay and for at least using protection! Facts!
This song along with the movie And The Band Played On always brings me to tears..I just really wished that in the dedication that they had acknowledged Gia Carangi...
Blessings to you. And I'm so sorry to say, but you don't have AIDS, dear. You are HIV positive. You can not live 26 years with full blown AIDS. You are in my thoughts regardless. Keep fighting.
these times still bring tears to my eyes. I am reminded of a time where a deep sense of humanity over-rode religious, political and personal hatred. So few in comparison to what was against them took control and changed so many things for the better. This will go down in history books for many centuries to come
Oh lord ...dumbo mama song and this song always makes me cry like a baby plus I saw this film when I was 8 with my mother it has help me become a better person and also aware at young age about aids Till this day I always remember this film and its message ..Sir Elton you are truly a gifted musician I still haven’t heard a love song that Can accomplish and that of a father and child relationship and unconditional love
If this movie/song does NOT rip your heart and make your eyes water and REALLY piss you off due to ego/red tape - see a doctor - you may already be dead! Death MUST NEVER be based on who you love! When tears come, why must sanity leave? Signed by a practicing hetero male - who HATES seeing ANY human life wasted!! I DO NOT CARE who you sleep with - THAT NEVER defines who you are! How you treat others defines who you are! ALWAYS love deeply and honestly. And always remember - God is watching!
One of the most powerful movies I have ever watched. It's now June of 2022 and we are looking at the start of another global outbreak (monkey pox) that is very preventable, I hope this comment does not age well and we learn from the past.
Terrible times when aids came out. I was very young and pregnant. I still remember so many cruel people rejecting even family members because of aids😭 and so many people dying also because of aids. 😭 I'm so proud of my parents they thought me to love and respect everyone. That's the same example I've passed down to my 5 children and all my 8 grandchildren. My kid's dad passed away last year due to Covid. Life is beautiful very fragile and short. Let's not waisted hating on each other's.
I lost a brother to this ...I loved him never left him. I lost a close co worker to this..it makes no difference .a friend is a friend no matter sickness,others ran when my coworker had this went to see him and stayed true..so fuckn all people hate ..who run cuz people have this..true friendship is real..and love is real I loved my brother never thought about aids,just my brother, and my friend ..people we all need someone to show us the care..God bless
I saw And the Band Played On back when I was in High School. One of my science teachers would show this to us in class. It was a sad film that HBO ever worked on. People having AIDS and dying from the disease in the 1980s and early 1990s was a serious deal that time. Elton John's The Last Song brought an emotional feeling in the end of the film when a tribute of celebrities who died from AIDS would show. 😢 ❤ Rest and piece to those we care and love including: Michael Carmine Howard Ashman Brad Davis Freddie Mercury Robert Reed Ron Woodroof Arthur Ashe Rick Aviles and Bill Kraus 🕯🕯🕯🕯
I saw this movie in my history class my senior year of high school. It was also around this time a very close friend of my mother's passed away to complications from AIDS. When this scene came on as we were watching it in class, I had to leave the room and to this day I cannot watch it it without crying.
Denholm Elliott was also in two of the "Indiana Jones" movies "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" and the movie "Toy Soldiers".
I absolutely love this tribute, along with another extremely beautiful song by Elton John. Let’s also add to the list of celebrities who died of AIDS: Nascar’s Tim Richmond and Rapper Eazy-e.
Regretfully i have lost many friends to Aids an know a few now who are dealing with it. This song is also hard to listen to because i watched my dad die on April 11 2013 an nothing will ever be the same
I was hoping the comments would have a list of who these wonderful performers and celebrities were. I recognize a few but only a few as it was before my time.
I remember when GRID came out. Its sad. These people had no idea that their lifestyle was going to destroy them. Aside from the children born non-cesarian and blood transfusion recipients, they almost all could have been avoided.
The LGBTQ community just wants to be part of the human race and that's not asking a whole lot bc they're humans too and that's literally all that matters in the eyes of God. Nothing else. Elton John is so talented too and in touch with his soul and spirit completely through his music and lyric's. 😍
I watched this in my 9th grade Health class and this song has been stuck by me ever since October 2014. When it showed Freddy Mercury, the entire classroom was somber and some students were emotional after the ending.
I always thought ending was beautifully done.... showing people from all walks of life and how far reaching the epidemic was. AIDS was and is everybody's disease
I don't know why they didn't put the names to this. I've seen this film several times and remember those years. So terribly sad but frustrating that people had the prejudice.
I wasn't rejoicing in his death either, I was merely saying his legacy has blood on it's hands. I remember when my friend Wayne died, we walked in front of the White House rolling his casket, with his mom's blessing of course, and opened the casket in front of the White House to remind Reagan. This is exactly how Silence=Death was born. Shameful!
Here in Long Beach Ca., there were many businesses that were closed, because the owners and/or many of the staff had died from AIDS. My cousin died from it, and it wasn't known until some years alter. I've heard from someone in the know, that Freddy Mercury wrote the lyrics, and it was in reference to his dad. He had no intension of making a song out of it, but someone close to Elton knew of it, found it and handed it over to Elton, with the agreement, that Freddy not be known as the writer, as he had no intention of making it public.
