On this day in 1985, Rock Hudson, a quintessential tall, dark and handsome Hollywood leading man of the 1950s and 1960s who made more than 60 films during his career, announces through a press release that he is suffering from acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). With that announcement, Hudson became the first major celebrity to go public with such a diagnosis. The first cases of AIDS, a condition of the human immune system, were reported in homosexual men in the United States in the early 1980s. At the time of Hudson’s death, AIDS was not fully understood by the medical community and the disease was stigmatized by the general public as a condition affecting only gay men, intravenous drug users and people who received contaminated blood transfusions.
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Hudson was born Roy Harold Scherer, Jr., on November 17, 1925, in Winnetka, Illinois. He rose to fame in the 1950s, starring in such films as Giant (1956), for which he received an Academy Award nomination, and A Farewell to Arms (1957). Hudson’s good looks and charm were on display in 1959’s Pillow Talk and several other romantic comedies he made with Doris Day in the early 1960s. In the 1970s, Hudson co-starred in the popular TV series McMillan and Wife. In the early 1980s, he began experiencing health problems and underwent heart bypass surgery. His final TV role was a recurring part on Dynasty from 1984 to 1985.
In July 1985 Hudson was hospitalized while in Paris. Some media reports indicated he was suffering from liver cancer. However, on July 25, Hudson issued a press release stating he had AIDS and was in France for treatment. Hudson, who had a three-year marriage during the 1950s to a woman who had been his agent’s secretary, was believed to be gay, although he never spoke publicly about his sexuality.
Hudson died on October 2, 1985, at age 59 in Beverly Hills, California. His death was credited with bringing attention to an epidemic that went on to kill millions of men, women and children of all backgrounds from around the world. Hudson’s friend and former Giant co-star Elizabeth Taylor became an AIDS activist and rallied the Hollywood community to raise millions for research. In 1993, Tom Hanks received a Best Actor Oscar for his performance in director Jonathan Demme’s Philadelphia, the first major Hollywood movie to focus on AIDS.
It was stigmatized as affecting only gay men, intravenous drug users and people who received contaminated blood transfusions because it affected only gay men, intravenous drug users and people who received contaminated blood transfusions (in America, at least).
Strange how we don’t hear about it anymore. Once the politicalization of homosexually had worked, the social engineers went on to other experiments. The other issue that is never discussed is the whole origin debate. It looked a lot like a targeted bio-weapon that was introduced via vaccines.
How it developed is not known, but how introduced it into the United States is.
As far as being “targeted”, anyone can catch aids if exposed to it by the transmission of body fluids from an infected person with the usual means being sexual activities with someone that has it or use of a needle that was previously used by someone having it.
No one is known to have immunity to it.
Rock Hudson was always a hack and most of his movie performances were somewhere between forced and awful. Second rate gives him too much credit.
Let him RIP. Nuff said.
I’m sorry, but I liked Rock Hudson movies. “Pillow Talk” was a good one. But then again, I especially like Doris Day movies. But “McMillan and Wife” was a good TV show. And when I was young I thought Rock Hudson was handsome, though not my one of my very favorite actors. I was absolutely flabbergasted when they said Hudson was gay and had AIDS. It’s was like homosexuals had invaded my movie viewing. (My very favorite movies, only older movies, say, from the late ’70s back to the beginning of film.) And sure enough, homosexuals are everywhere now, which is why one reason I don’t watch TV or go to see movies any more. I don’t like having agendas pushed on me from anywhere.
Yes, I know the .gov was propagandizing WWII movies, but I can see through that. The movies themselves were done well enough to watch.
..and then there was the ad slogan “get a piece of the rock”…. I think of that whenever Rock Hudson is mentioned.
Flying Monkey, now that is funny.
Rock Hudson starred in a very strange and well done drama in the 60’s called “Seconds.” Check it out if you have never seen it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seconds_(1966_film)
I still have a hard time visualizing Rock taking it up the ass and loving it.
I read somewhere maybe 35 years ago that Rock Hudson enjoyed wearing women’s lace silky panties. To this day I won’t watch anything in which he appears.
This is why I don’t care about trying to find out much about stars I like. Although, most of them are in the past and probably dead anyway because I’m an old movie buff. I could really care less about today’s movies or TV shows. And I could care even less about what these people in the movies and TV think.
Hey! Who doesn’t like feeling a woman’s lace silky panties on their sensitive skin? I think some Busy Beas should be a little more gender inclusive and try wearing some soft boxers for a while. I bet you will get what Rock got from silky panties soft on the skin, like a woman’s caress perhaps.
I loved the Doris Day Rock Hudson movies!Sure dates me.