First of December is World AIDS Day and who do I think of but Rock Hudson, an American film and television actor who was a romantic leading man during the 1960s and 1970s and whose death, according to Flamingo's star, Morgan Fairchild, had given AIDS a face. Rock Hudson's name afterall, throughout the years when he was hot, epitomized wholesome manliness and his sexual preference for men was a secret to the general public. Perhaps, it must be not until the eighties after he landed a recurring role on the hit ABC prime time soap opera Dynasty where he played Daniel Reece a love-interest for Krystle Carrington played by the lovely Linda Evans when his health deteriorated that the secret that he was dying of AIDs leaked out. Perhaps, that was during a time when AIDS was a taboo subject in many parts of the world and AIDS victims were shunned by a big section of the community too. Today, in the U.S. alone, more than 1 million people are estimated to have AIDS and out of these people, nearly half involve people 13 to 24 years of age. Now that AIDS has a face, it it possible that the general public, young people especially have begun to assume a lackadaisical attitude towards the deadly disease and stop practising safe sex?
Rock Hudson...
...with Jane Wyman
....with Doris Day
Rock Hudson...
...with Jane Wyman
....with Doris Day 
... with Marcia Henderson
....Linda Evans.
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