Episode 104: Five Questions About Charlie Sheen

Actor Charlie Sheen revealed his HIV status this week. The last time we checked, having sex while positive was no longer a felony, drugs and alcohol caused false positives, and kissing on TV didn’t transmit “HIV.” Why do the media assume otherwise?

 

“How Positive Are You” co-host Elizabeth Ely looks at the Sheen revelations from a new angle by asking a different set of questions. Continue reading »

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Episode 88: Attorney Robert Parker Mills on the ‘AIDS’-Blackmailing of Rock Hudson, Alive and Dead

Thirty years ago this summer, doctors told actor Rock Hudson that he had “AIDS.” A year later, he collapsed in a hotel room in Paris, igniting a public hysteria around a virus then said to threaten everyone. A little over a year later, Hudson was dead at 59, AIDS had gone mainstream, and a young drifter named Marc Christian, claiming to have been the Hollywood heartthrob’s lover, filed a lawsuit against the estate for “emotional distress” for fear of having caught a fatal virus. Attorney and author Robert Parker Mills chats with “How Positive Are You” co-host Elizabeth (Beth) Ely about defending the estate — and the posthumous reputation — of one of the most beloved stars of movies and television, in 1988-89. Continue reading »

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