I loved her movies and her persona and her beauty and her aura and everything. But my favorite moment was when nobody was talking about HIV and AIDS and the stigma behind it and she was one of the first celebrities to openly get behind the efforts to spread awareness.<\/p>\n
Back then it was brave of her. And she was a pioneer in getting attention and helping remove the stigma. I am grateful for that on behalf of all my friends (those who thankfully are alive and well and those who sadly didn’t make it but are always remembered).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I loved her movies and her persona and her beauty and her aura and everything. But my favorite moment was when nobody was talking about HIV and AIDS and the stigma behind it and she was one of the first celebrities to openly get behind the efforts to spread awareness. Back then it was brave …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"loftocean_post_format_gallery":"","loftocean_post_format_gallery_ids":"","loftocean_post_format_gallery_urls":"","loftocean_post_format_video_id":0,"loftocean_post_format_video_url":"","loftocean_post_format_video_type":"","loftocean_post_format_video":"","loftocean_post_format_audio_type":"","loftocean_post_format_audio_url":"","loftocean_post_format_audio_id":0,"loftocean_post_format_audio":"","loftocean-featured-post":"","loftocean-like-count":0,"loftocean-view-count":1111,"loftocean_coauthors":"","alpaca_post_content_reading_setting":"","alpaca_reading_speed_per_minute":0,"alpaca_reading_speed_unit":"","alpaca_single_post_template_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[108,675,977],"class_list":["post-2642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aids","tag-elizabeth-taylor","tag-hiv"],"yoast_head":"\n