2013 Honorees
Los Angeles
About the early days of the pandemic: “I am old enough to remember losing a lot of my friends, and it was a scary time for us. They were our angels that basically we were losing one by one.”
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Inspiration New York
“I’m Scottish. And my clan is called ‘Cumming.’ And the motto for my clan is—guess what—‘Courage.’ So I grew up with word ‘courage’ being very entrenched in everything that was to do with my name and who I am.…but what I think is really courageous is people who are living with the disease that there is no cure for; people who risked their jobs and their lives in the early eighties to campaign and tell the world what a terrible catastrophe was going on and what terrible ignomies were going on…; and also to all the scientists and researchers and doctors who are doing so much and being so courageous in their world and trying to end this disease….”
São Paulo
New York
“I consider myself a very private person who feels that the war on AIDS must be made public. We all know that there are treatments for HIV, but there isn’t a cure. There is great, great work ahead, and I would like to give my love and appreciation to amfAR, to the doctors, all the researchers, the contributors, all the volunteers, to everyone who has ever been impacted by HIV/AIDS, and, most of all, to the one above who makes all things possible, for guiding us in this battle.”
