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12 Celebrities Who Have Been Diagnosed With HIV/AIDS

Today, Hollywood star and #winning spokesman Charlie Sheen revealed to the world that he was living with HIV. Human immunodeficiency virus, better known as HIV, is the virus that causes AIDS. Many famous people have been diagnosed with HIV/AIDS throughout the years.

Know your status and check out the list of 12 celebs who have been diagnosed with the disease next…

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Liberace

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“Too much of a good thing is wonderful.” – Liberace . Picture: Liberace (May 16, 1919 – February 4, 1987), 1974. Photo © Allan Warren. . Liberace, who was born ninety-eight years ago today as Wladziu Valentino Liberace, was an American pianist, singer, and actor, best-known for his flamboyant on and offstage personality, which earned him nicknames including Mr. Showmanship and The Glitter Man. . Despite his parents' disapproval and the ridicule he faced at school, Liberace, performing as "Walter Busterkeys," used his musical gift to help his family through the Great Depression. Throughout the 1940s, he refined his act, adding the trademark sights and sounds that came to define Liberace: audience interaction, candelabrum, white tux and tails, bejeweled pianos, his take on pop-meets-classical-with-flare. By 1955, he was making $50,000 a week at the Riviera Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, becoming one of the earliest mainstay acts on the Vegas Strip. . Throughout his life, Liberace vehemently denied his homosexuality, famously suing publications in Britain and the United States in the late 1950s for strongly insinuating that he was gay (Britain's "Daily Mirror" described him as "a deadly, winking, sniggering, snuggling…, fruit-flavoured, mincing, ice-covered heap of mother love"; while a "Confidential" headline announced "Why Liberace's Theme Song Should Be, 'Mad About The Boy!'"); he won in the U.K. and settled the U.S. suit. . In the mid-1980s, during a heated palimony suit, Liberace denied having a sexual relationship with Scott Thorson, his live-in lover; the case settled in 1986. . On February 4, 1987, those close to Liberace announced his death at age sixty-seven, citing heart failure as the cause. An autopsy, however, revealed the actual cause as cytomegalovirus pneumonia, an AIDS-related illness. #lgbthistory #HavePrideInHistory #Liberace

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Keith Haring

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Aha #nyc#boyyy#pic#kh#shoot 📸

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Robert Reed

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Robert Reed (October 19, 1932 – May 12, 1992) was a stage, film, and television actor. From 1961 to 1965, he portrayed Kenneth Preston on the popular legal drama The Defenders, alongside E. G. Marshall. He is best known as the father Mike Brady, opposite Florence Henderson's Carol Brady, on the ABC sitcom The Brady Bunch, which aired from 1969 to 1974. He reprised the role of Mike Brady in several later reunion programs. In 1976, he earned two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his guest-starring role in a two-part episode of Medical Center and for his work on the miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man. The following year, Reed earned a third Emmy nomination for his role in the miniseries Roots. Reed was gay but kept this fact private, fearing it would damage his career. In July 1954, Reed married fellow Northwestern student Marilyn Rosenberger. The couple had one daughter, Karen, before divorcing in 1959. In November 1991, Reed was diagnosed with colon cancer. When he became ill, he allowed only his daughter and his close friends actress Anne Haney and Josh Miller to visit him. Haney later said of Reed, "He came from the old school, where people had a sense of decorum. He went the way he wanted to, without publicity." He died on May 12, 1992 at Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena, California, at age 59. Reed's death was initially attributed solely to cancer, but details from his death certificate were made public revealing that Reed was HIV positive. However, Reed did not have AIDS at the time of his death. Reed is buried at Memorial Park Cemetery in Skokie, Illinois. #robertreed #bradybunch #television #actor #vintage

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Rock Hudson

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Magic Johnson

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