Ms Gold told PA: “Those cultural touchstone moments become really, really important for raising awareness, for reminding people it (HIV) is still here, reminding people what they need to do to protect themselves.”
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She counted the late royal’s hospital visits as a powerful moment alongside the openness of Mercury in 1991 and Welsh sporting star Thomas in 2019. Ms Gold said Diana had an “extraordinary” effect in tackling the stigma associated with HIV when she famously visited hospitals and hugged patients during the 1980s at a time when there was mass hysteria about contagion. The Mercury Phoenix Trust raised £579,021 this year, after being founded by Queen members Brian May and Roger Taylor along with their manager Jim Beach to fund AIDS education and awareness projects in the developing world. “They were able to take a really upsetting and sad situation and used the learning from that to really impact change.” “I think the other members of Queen and his friends really did that through their work at the Mercury Trust. “In the short period of time before he died, he was open about the fact that he had AIDS, and when those moments happen, it’s possible to grab hold of them and use them for something else. “He’s one of a small handful of people who is truly enormously internationally well-known, and so at the time his death had a huge impact. She told the PA news agency: “Freddie Mercury has really had a lasting legacy. Ms Gold credited the Zanzibar-born singer, along with Diana, Princess of Wales, and more recently rugby league international Gareth Thomas, as someone who has had a “powerful” influence in tackling the stigma associated with AIDS. The writer and performer of much-loved anthems including We Are The Champions and Bohemian Rhapsody revealed he was HIV positive the day before his death. I was 22 then and he was for me the most prominent person to die from AIDS, I wasn’t promiscuous I was in a stable relationship- well I thought I was.Freddie Mercury going public with his HIV diagnosis before he died was a “cultural touchstone moment”, a charity boss has said on the 30th anniversary of the singer’s death.ĭeborah Gold, the chief executive of the National AIDS Trust, reflected on the Queen star’s life and legacy, and how far the world has come in the fight against AIDS since the flamboyant and charismatic frontman died aged 45 on November 24 1991, after suffering with bronchial pneumonia resulting from AIDS. On that somber November Evening outside 4 Logan Place Freddie had arranged for wine to be given out and for fans to toast him on his way. I wasn’t a die hard fan, I just Loved the passion, the feeling he put into a song, it was almost as if each time he sang it drained a little of his life’s force. We drove into London in the evening the day he died, we went to his home and met so many berieved fans. So as my dear old gran used to say, if you’ve nothing nice to say go be a ‘ass’ somewhere else…. Us older, wiser guys know first hand the devastating impact of this disease on our community. It’s also easy saying that in 2016 with the combination therapy, HIV is now considered by the so many of the young to be just like a cold virus. The stories of Freddie’s lifestyle are told by wannabes and hangers on, it’s wrong to pass judgment on any individual for the life choices they have made.
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We’ll never know how Freddie contracted this awful disease, or how long it was dormant before becoming full blown AIDS. Michael matter how safe you may play, condoms do occasionally break.