Donahue comes off like a Tom Snyder.

@@taroman7100 I met him. He’s definitely not like Tom Snyder. Really. : o )

I'm sorry I disagree with people's perspective on him. He's sued Rock Hudson over a disease he didn't have. Doesn't take responsibility for not using protection when anyone can have aids. Then says he may make more profit by writing a tell all book. He took Rocks hard earned money. Terrible

@@saramarshall2957Rock had the responsibility to inform Marc of his AIDS diagnosis. Maybe you sleep around, but Marc didn’t.

@theamberheardplaylist6768 She was a proven liar in court. Please don't insult our intelligence . A lot of us watched the trial live. I feel such a fool for initially believing her.

Plain and simple 🎉

He was very clear and articulate.

marc is ckearly uin denial, THERE IS NIO WAY ROCK HUDSON LOVED MARC , HE NEVER TOIKD MARC, HE HAD HIS SECRETARY LIE, ROCK HUDSON NEVER PUT MARC IN HIS WILL, ROCK WAS CHEATINNG ON MARC. THAT IS NOT LOVE.

I'd be really brave with all them millions😊

I remember when a colleague with AIDS who’d left our company returned for a visit, and I walked up and gave him a big hug. The look of shock and gratitude on his face was heartbreaking…even though we knew you couldn’t get AIDS from hugging. I felt so badly for him. Everyone must have avoided touching him. So awful.

Thank God times have changed. What two consenting adults do is no ones business.

Bless your Mom for being compassionate and understanding. Heartbreaking.

Your mom was a good woman

Your mother is a wise woman Tom.🕊

Yes, I think the same.

that’s the MidWest bubble.

The audience and this horrible Host🤮He managed in the best way possible!When surrounded by pure ignorance and stupidity and still stand your ground and most important stay calm.Thats bravery for me!

Yes. It is sad that they acted like this

That was thirty five or forty years ago.

Smdh.....this brave soul! I applaud him!

@@annabellasmith2 Me too

I agree. That's the first thing that hit me.

You've got to be kidding me.

@@saraschneider6781?

He deserves nothing

​@thegracetofollow4194 he who is without sin cast the first stone. Also, women aren't to tell men anything but be eye candy for her husband per the Bible

"Awarded Christian $21.75 million in damages, later reduced to $5.5 million. The $5.5-million award was upheld by a state Court of Appeal."

Amen 🙏

maybe in usa, but in canada a woman tried to sue a male with aids who did not tell her, and i don't think she got anything

Why

P😊

Rock could have had one of the nurses call all of his recent sexual partners. To give them a complimentary heads up if he were a decent man.

This man lied, I'm sure Rock told him 'cause he wasn't infected and it makes me believe they used condom, Marc created this lie because he wanted Rock's money, he's a liar!

He wasn't his true love he lived him but he wasn't his true.love I think his partner before was his true love

@@lanny7303 Unprotected sexual exposure to HIV doesn't necessary lead to infection. In fact, some studies have gone as far as to saying that successful HIV-1 transmission occurs only one out of 1,000 times.

@@lanny7303 One person with some intelligence thank you. I find that fellow quite disgusting an absolute nothing go getter nobody.Cashing in on Rock Hudson,finally.Sic.Yeah he loved him so much give us a break.He left him out of his will!Hudson probably finally got tired of him living off him and told him to take a hike.When he wouldn't leave Hudson sick and weak his friends told him to leave yet he would not leave.ugh this fella is a failed actor.

you have got to be kidding me

Wonderful man, Mr Christian. Truly sincere. I really feel for him and believe that he was entitled to a big settlement.

I believe he had AIDS.

Thank you because Rock Hudson's estate was valued @ 8 million.

@@ChristinaJenkins-pk3ty --------Guy men finish their lives broke, all the money they could have accumulated is taken away by their lovers.

@@JuanTorres-ny9ff agreed. Wondering why they would award higher than it's value in the first place. Seems stupid to me, that's all.

Don't suck

True. People are so ratchet. They know that they have a disease than can infect and/or kill another person but they let sex opportunity to have sex override their obligation.

It was selfish to not tell him.

He should of told him. Death threat. Oh. God pour marc

Yeah I lost all respect for Hudson when I heard this

Mary Carlino - This man lied, I'm sure Rock told him 'cause he wasn't infected and it makes me believe they used condom, Marc created this lie because he wanted Rock's money, he's a liar!

Rock Hudson was so wrong for not telling him. That's why laws were put in place to place to prosecute people who knowing slept with people without protection without telling their partners.

That disease was a made up disease. Why in communities I know of, all of a sudden, people stop dying of AIDS, even though, it's proven that there are many of these people HIV carriers.

And now we have PrEP and it's close to 99% effective in prevention of new infection. Not quite a cure, but still very remarkable.

You do realize, AIDS was fairly new then. There were no treatments for it. No one knew, anything about it. People did not KNOW.

I remember when Roc Hudson was on Dynasty, he was Heather Locklear father and yes it was out that he had AIDS

There are no idiotic questions..Only idiotic people. I'm sure You know this.

the MidWest lived in a bubble in the 80s

@@somerset8088. The east and west coasts live in an EVEN BIGGER bubble because they can’t comprehend a Midwest even exists. I lived in both places and personally experienced the coastal ignorance and myopia. One friend from NY asked me if a woman could get AIDS from a man who had it. WHAT??? Yes, east coast is BACKWARD. WEST COAST AS WELL.

+daniel kinney Fear of getting a disease is so much worse than having it (right) LOL. It seems more like attempted robbery than murder. I worked for God's Love We Deliver in NYC and am more concerned about people with AIDS along with attempts to criminalize (won't do any good- think Rock would care?)) than those in Tennessee waxing about other people's sex lives. You made a claim elsewhere that it is illegal for PWA's to have any sex, totally ignorant. HIV affects millions and many have sex. Only a love struck schoolgirl would trust what a man who wants sex SAYS. You have to protect yourself.

Dottiecurran It is against the law to have sex with another human if you know you have HIV or AIDS. you can be prosecuted and put in prison if you pass that disease along to another human being. I am not wrong about that. That is a FACT>

daniel kinney Magic Johnson a criminal? Where? In your progressive Tenn.? Do you realize how many millions of people have HIV or Aids and enjoy full love lives? Take a look at gay personal ads where sometimes people say they have it. That is a fact and you can't do anything about it. I am not worried about getting it as I use protection. You have no right to tell ANYONE their sex lives are illegal with another consenting person. And I doubt prison would faze Rock Hudson who broke the law having gay sex period. BTW, Marc had already moved out of Rock's bedroom when he (Rock) first knew he was ill and was threatening to expose his homosexuality. Rock's former lover Tom, moved back in to care for him. Marc's care was only for money. As for you, stop trying to look ghetto and move out of the backwoods into the world. Magic Johnson is not breaking any laws with his wife so your statement is false for California. I think people with Aids have enough to deal with. I don't support hysteria and hate when someone isn't infecting others.

The only point i am making is what the law says, IF you have aids or HIV and you knowing SLEEP with another HUMAN and you do not tell them you are POSITIVE for HIV or AIDS you can be prosecuted if the person you infect gets it and they choose to have you prosecuted. That is all i am saying. I have seen it and heard it with my own eyes and ears people have went to PRISON only when they INFECT SOMEONE and did not disclose they were HIV+. I don't live in TN.

Dottiecurran During the early years of the HIV epidemic, a number of states implemented HIV-specific criminal exposure laws. These laws impose criminal penalties on people living with HIV who know their HIV status and who potentially expose others to HIV. In 1990, the Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency (CARE) Act, which provides states with funds for AIDS treatment and care, required every state to certify that its criminal laws were adequate to prosecute any HIV-infected individual who knowingly exposed another person to HIV.1 Picture of US CourtroomCriminalization of potential HIV exposure is largely a matter of state law, although some federal legislation addresses criminalization in discrete areas, such as blood donation. The National HIV/AIDS Strategy, released by the White House in July 2010, provides some guidance regarding the issue of criminalization, noting that in some instances, existing HIV exposure laws may need to be re-examined.2 An analysis by CDC and Department of Justice researchers found that, by 2011, a total of 67 laws explicitly focused on persons living with HIV had been enacted in 33 states.3 These laws vary as to what behaviors are criminalized or result in additional penalties. In 24 states, laws require persons who are aware that they have HIV to disclose their status to sexual partners and 14 states require disclosure to needle-sharing partners. Twenty-five states criminalize one or more behaviors that pose a low or negligible risk for HIV transmission. The majority of laws identified for the analysis were passed before studies showed that antiretroviral therapy (ART) reduces HIV transmission risk and most do not account for HIV prevention measures that reduce transmission risk, such as condom use, ART, or pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). The analysis encouraged states with HIV-specific criminal laws to use its findings to re-examine state laws, assess the laws' alignment with current evidence regarding HIV transmission risk, and consider whether the laws are the best vehicle by which to achieve their intended purposes. It should be noted that all states have general criminal laws-such as assault and battery, reckless endangerment, and attempted murder-that can and have been used to prosecute individuals for any of the above-mentioned behaviors. See a map of states with HIV-related laws. 1 Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency Act of 1990 (Public Law 101-381; 104 Stat. 576). 2 National HIV/AIDS Strategy See recommended action 3.3 - Promote public health approaches to HIV prevention and care: State legislatures should consider reviewing HIV-specific criminal statutes to ensure that they are consistent with current knowledge of HIV transmission and support public health approaches to preventing and treating HIV. 3 Lehman, JS, Carr, MH., Nichol, AJ, et al. Prevalence and public health implications of state laws that criminalize potential HIV exposure in the United States. AIDS Behav 2014.

Yes he probably fancies himself as a pretty good actor pity Rock Hudson did it so much better.He showed so much love and respect for a dead man who could not defend himself. I hope he chokes on his money.

@@bluewrenreilly129 considering rock Hudson could have killed him by not telling him he had aids pls be quiet

You've gotta be effing kidding.

@@trina415 he could not. marc has not been with rock for a long time before he got the disease. and rock called and told everyone he slept with that he was sick, marc was not on the list because he left before while trying to blackmail. you cant just believe everything ppl tell you. BE QUIET yourself and actually read on what you are talking about

@@carollopes5950 grow up everyone has an opinion unless you were there sit down

Dignity is the last thing Marc Christian had.

@@saraschneider6781 He was infected and not told.He had tremendous self control and yes Sara, dignity.

@@doniellestenson3502 get a dictionary and actually look up dignity.

yes he does. which makes him very credible.

@@nonolunt6178 you're effing crazy.

He truly was brave for doing this & handled thing w/dignity. Rock Hudson was disgusting for what he did knowingly.

He was a very insightful man.

We still don't Celebrate homosexuality, it's an abnormal unhealthy lifestyle

"Liberated Lifestyles" God calls it SIN..IMMORAL. DISOBEDIENCE. REBELLION TWO MEN IN PERVERSION SALLING WRONG RIGHT AND RIGHT WRONG LEVITICUS 18:22 LEVITICUS 20:13 KJV GOD SPOKE IT ..COMMANDED GOD CREATED MAN AND WOMEN TO PROCREATE TWO OF THE SAME SEX CANNOT...IT IS AN ABOMINATION TO GOD NOT ABOUT THISE WHO DEFEND GOD'S TRUTH IT IS GOD WHO SPOKE FEAR OF GOD HE IS NOW JUDGING THE UNITED STATES FOR NORMIRLIZING PERVERSIONS OF EVERY KIND ... HE IS JUDGING THE EARTH 2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV ISAIAH 1:18-19 Kjv Isaiah 59:1 J KJV READ AND SEE TRUTH CALL ON YAHSHUA TODAY TIME IS SHORT Revelations 12-12 Kjv If you play with fire 🔥 you will get burned This is what Aides is about..PERVERSION Sowing and reaping.. A warning. A stop sign ❤😢

I agree!! What an ignorant audience & "host"!! 😠

This is a great and loving person. We were very stupid about this disease back then.

@@beverlyfoster4836 speak for yourself

So glad she spoke what anyone with compassion had been thinking the whole time.

Yes, Liberace used the same excuse for his deteriorating health (“watermelon diet”) to hide the fact that he had AIDS. Unfortunately for Liberace’s last lover, Cary James, he contracted HIV and died.

Brian Langston that’s Tragic 😢

Great man

OMG! How very sad.! The whole story is so sad.

Gawd!

What an interesting, tragic and awful thing to discover! I really liked his demeanor in this interview! Mark must’ve been traumatized. RIP to the attorney and his family!

Karen Cook Absolutely! Do you know whether he actually received the settlement money?

I hope not! This guy reads grifter for days!

Green4CloveR true it doesn’t matter what people do in their personal life

Right? I cheered when she said what she said. The audiences reaction was disgusting as well. You can tell they all felt safe to laugh because they thought of it as “a gay mans issue”.

minute 41! she was the only person making sense in that ugly talk show.

@@JUANIGNAC10 uhm, except the host fully backed her and even after the call ended refused to let it go and kept her voice going challenging his audience asking them "what are you laughing about?" He also exposed that homophobic black guy forcing him to admit he thought being gay was wrong. This host did a great job.

@@nw6070 I don't see it that way. He felt embarrassed an compelled to say that little decent comment after 41 minutes of laughter. He even added "Oh we need some humor to be able to digest such terrible matters" or something like that. Clearly the "humor" was not because they felt Aids was their problem. It was acause they thought gays were the ones getting it and they were enjoying that.

I will pray for your son. I serve a Mighty God Who still heals today! Nothing is impossible 🙌 Jesus Christ is the same- yesterday, today & forever 💌

Oh my god😢

Lawyer was dead less than four months after this interview.

Wow, sad he never got to spend the money he stole from the Hudson estate.

Marc also died, but from Pulmonary Embolism, in 2009.

He died

You are absolutely right. It was his case that was the catalyst for passing laws about failing to disclose communicable diseases (like HIV) to partners. The jury seemed to think so as well, since they awarded him MORE than he asked for.

It happened to me too, only I wasn't as lucky as Marc and I did become + at 19. Was my first boyfriend and I had just recently came out as openly gay. It was year 2000 I came out. The good medicine WAS available for me ty 4 gods grace. My once partner had full blown aids and didn't feel the need to tell me. Not even when I asked him, a few times actually, and on different occasions. It's been more than 20 years now and I've had an undetectable viral load since a month after starting the medicine. The first line of drugs had terrible side effects that many ppl couldn't or wouldn't tolerate. I'm glad I took them anyways even on some of the days when being sick outta both ends simultaneously. I'm glad because I've kept it suppressed at less than 20/ml. but almost always they find 0 Zero hiv viron particles/ml. of blood. Bc of this my immune system wasn't damaged too much. I had the hiv for about 1.5 years before I started medication. My cd4 cells are usually around 1000 and that is excellent, stronger than many ppl, most ppl even, and those whom had never have had any sort of immune disease, difficiency, or hiv exposure at all. Just blessed to have proper treatment and my health. Praise God! TOO BLESSED TO BE STRESSED!!!

​@@ryanb9930I'm so glad you are ok. And thanks for sharing this with others.

@@ryanb9930 I'm glad you are in better health now.

Donahue is terrible in so many interviews I've watched him do. I don't understand what made him appealing for so long as a host lol

@@shawneaton9203 salaciousness

His name is Phil Donahue, husband of Marlo Thomas. Her father founded St. Jude’s Hospital, free medical care to all. He’s not “the interviewer.”

Whatever..... Donahue Was AMAZING. I'm Straight As Well. Do You Prefer Jimmy Fallon or Bill Maher ?

Great Lawyer❤

BUT HES REALLY NOT. HES GAY

And manipulative & narcissistic.

Handsome man

Hog wash

​@@youtubeuser1432 shut up

It's like talking about CoViD-19 today

@@Cjnw Covid-19 isn't a taboo topic today like AIDS was back then. Not even a close comparison!

@@henrysmith180 exactly lol

We talked about AIDS a fair amount back then!

@@Cjnw This comment has NOT AGED WELL

WHAT A IGNORANT NASTY INTERVIEWER 😮

Definitely deserved more respect than he was given. 🤦🏽‍♀️. He saved lives

Bravery!

@@luccaskingo Didn’t you watch this? It was Rock Hudson.

@@luccaskingo Rock Hudson

@@daniellewatson8352 i didnt😭, he never left the closet

@@debraday9898 got it

@@luccaskingoHudson came out of the closet in early 1985. Several months before his AIDS diagnosis.

Prejudiced because he is gay.

As one caller said.

Because he's an ASS.

He's stupid and weird

Ignorance

Well if it was you - you would probably say the same thing that RH said to Doris

​@@wendynichols6946, not true.

He only told some of his close friends he had AIDS because he didn't want people to judge him having AIDS. Doris Day knew he was gay but he didn't tell her he had AIDS.

He was our neighbor for years in the Hollywood Knolls neighborhood. He lived in a beautiful Mid-Century home and generally stuck to himself and wasn't particularly friendly w/neighbors possibly because of what he went through. I saw him about a month before he died about 10-years ago from a sudden lung infection. He still looked great in his mid 50s at the time of his death.

I have dealt with attorneys for various problems as a teacher in Grand Rapids Public Schools in Grand Rapids Michigan. One particular instance was that someone I knew and encouraged to work in our school system, allegedly slept with the superintendent and his other male lover. Later the man, I helped get into school district was fired. He attempted to Blackmail and extort money from the superintendent and the school district otherwise he's going to expose his secret. Even though I had a personal protection order against this person the police would not help me because of the situation of high-profile superintendent. I was forced to sign a confidentiality agreement and tell everything I knew about the situation. I was the one that got in trouble. I was retaliated over and over again until I retired in 2017. I have had three different attorneys over the years. I got nothing. The other person was given hush money. I was sexually assaulted by other employees and my name sullied because I helped a person get into the school system. I was being held responsible for another man with doing with his penis. Even this complicit School Board did not help me or follow the school policies. In Grand Rapids Public Schools you can suck and f*ck your way to the top. There is a pervasive swinging culture within our school system . It's like an Open Secret. The people have sex with each other and protect each other it's like a big sex club. The people that run our school system are complicit in this evil that was perpetuated against me and the children in my classroom. The female superintendent that followed Dr. Taylor was also incompetent. She was an evil and vindictive woman exploited the children's education in my classroom by setting me up to fail over and over again. No one would help me not even my attorneys. When I slipped and fell at work and injured my shoulder. I had multiple surgeries it took 3 years to get my settlement and I didn't even get half of what I deserve for the out-of-pocket costs. I was a victim of being too nice and expecting these people to be kind to me after I told the truth about what I knew. I'm almost 60 years old now and I learned that Sex and Money Make the World Go Round And people lie and do anything to protect the reputation just like Rock Hudson did.

K

@@catholics4unity oh my gosh that is terrible , I'm sorry to hear your terrible ordeal.

i guess I'm kinda off topic but do anyone know a good place to watch new tv shows online ?

Agreed

Yeah. I totally understand why he felt compelled to do this interview. Inquiring minds want to know, but if I was his true friend I would tell him that the interview thing is a bad idea. Marc Christian was demonized in the gay community for it, it wasn't; worth it. He should have stayed shut.

The homophobia from the audience is sickening.

@Les Moore But chances are he probably wore a condom since he didn´t get infected and they probably had sex more than once in the months after Rock learned about his positive HIV status.

Preservatives existed and were used long before that sir, it´s a historical fact and for the sake of public education this must be made clear, I'm not saying this for petty skirmishes, believe me.

Phil Donahue is ridiculous.

Donahue was always a glib pompous ass

+Cee Jay Thank you for your righteous comment.

+Cee Jay Using fear of Aids to win money isn't a legal standard. What others say or don't say before sex isn't subject to the approval or disapproval of those who can't get any, or Christian bigots like Deb Scott. Rock's only responsibility was not to pass on the disease and he fulfilled that. Funny, those who never protested forcing people like Rock to hide only protest not being more open.

Dottiecurran Cool your jets. I was around in those days. Fear drove every aspect of HIV/AIDS. Do your damn homework.

That’s a powerful comment!! 👏🏽

Shame on the people in the audience who are judgemental towards Marc Christian. I like how the female caller reprimanded the audience for being insensitive. I don't like the people who badger the victim.

And to imagine he left the poor boy out of his will...

TheTerryE Really you knew Rock? didn't think so you have no right to say what he was yes if its true it was not the right thing but I do not believe he intentionally was trying to harm Marc maybe he was scared and when you are scared you do things you would not otherwise do and nobody stopped Marc from using protection specially if they had just met I did not watch the interview so I do not know if he said anything against Mr Hudson but if he ever did I think he is throwing the blame all on one person

April In my opinion, it is not good to comment on a video if you have not seen it, let alone comment on other people's comments. Also, try using a little punctuation, it's hard to read a bunch of run-on words & sentences without any punctuation.

Sounds like reckless disregard.

he deserved some money. but that amount was just ridiculous. @@unaninanine3743

Phil is embarrassing and cringe to watch, and listen to.

Absolutely! I thought Phillip was a real ass-hole here. He also would have known with some of the questions he asked Marc, his staunch followers in the audience would have made it worse. Disgraceful as far as I’m concerned.

a liberal democrat then, and now.

He got dementia, don't know who Donahue used to be.

@@cultfilmfreakreviews Hahaha, you really want to play politics while the current republican administration is doing what it can to roll back lgbt rights.

Im not. Typical.

I remember people thought this was a cringe worthy insensitive homophobic interview where Donahue kept using old fashion homophobic terms and concepts to describe the situation. People felt bad for and protective of Rock Hudson’s boyfriend as a result. Just so everyone knows it was seen that way in 1989 too. It really turned people off of Donahue and his show. He seemed yet again like an obnoxious loud mouth.

He's dead if I remember correctly.

Yes he was

@Big Valerie Much better than Donahue. RIP Marc.

@Big Valerie So did Marc die of aids?

Bleu Skye , Christian fortunately never did develop AIDS. He died from pulmonary problems caused by his heavy smoking, his sister told the L.A. Times

@@Ladysugarshaft Oh okay thanks

I NOTICE WHEN A GUY IS GAY. ALL OF SUDDEN WOMEN JUST SAYING HE IS SO HANDSOME AND BEAUTIFUL ETC. TRUST ME IF HE CAME OUT STRAIGHT. U WOULDNT SAY THAT AT ALL.

He was very attractive when he was young but here..... meh, not so much.... blah.

disgusting, God created man and woman

@@stosijajovic9937 then why are you watching about gay men?

Stošija Jović your disgusting!

Phil Donahue was infamous for playing devils advocate when it came to questioning his guests, it was his shtick.

Everyone was ignorant and the stigma destroyed lives. It wasn’t protected by the ADA.

He died years ago . Smoking related disease

This man is Dead.

He died in 2009. The lawyer died 4 months later in a plane crash with his wife and daughter.

@@ricarleite Tragic.

Marc died in 2009, age 56. The award was reduced to 5.5m

Rip ... #marcchristian died from lung cancer .. 💐 #rockhudson

Apparently Marc was an asshole. That's why Rock didn't tell him.

@@gigiduhermoine890 I read he died from emphysema in 2007 from heavy smoking.

Marc died? Nobody lives forever. May he rest in peace!

Josh Weaver he sounds intelligent too....anyway why should we be surprised....right?

b52gf16c Exactly. You would think black people would be more sympathetic to gay people...considering we are both minorities. But I find African-Americans to be the most homophobic people today!

Josh Weaver Why? He was a college graduate. He was not some Midnight Cowboy street hustler.

Josh Weaver he

What the hell? Did you expect him to be hood or gangster or what? Lol

I can.

"Awarded Christian $21.75 million in damages, later reduced to $5.5 million. The $5.5-million award was upheld by a state Court of Appeal."

Now it's legal again to not tell your partner.

Actually, disclosure laws and penalties vary state to state.

David Henry Lake - what?!???

@@CaToRi- In California. Everything that man fought for, went to shite....

a moral person cares about those suffering from Aids not those who use the fear of it to win money. A disease they never get. Gay relations are not for you to judge. Baths and backrooms and other no talk sex places were popular. Rock was forced to hide and then you condemn him for it. You should understand that time as I see from your picture

I condemn him for hiding it from his sexual partner and having unprotected sex with this young man. That' s unconscionable. Despicable. And to think he never left that young man one red cent. He did not know he had not given him AIDS. In fact, he actually said he had "probably killed him!" Denise, have you ever known what it is like living with the fear of having contracted AIDS? Go ask a policeman or woman or a nurse or doctor who has had to go through that. You have no idea at all, do you?

Pamela Valemont The dead can't defend themselves. But no one will say they had any sex with you. I don't ask a policeman about my sex life and I don't fear diseases. I care for people with Aids instead. Making someone a pariah and then demanding open ness doesn't work

no different from the trash of hollywood today who support ukraine sub humans like zoolensky.

@@denisecoffin314You SJWs act like gay men like any human have zero flaws. I have contempt for Hudson.

This was truly heartless and callous. When you love a person, you don't say that. People always look at me critically when I say: "If I were single and meeting a new partner, I would insist on an HIV test and Corona test!" We have today, my husband and I our 18th wedding anniversary there must be trust to lead a marriage / relationship. No matter man/man, woman/woman or man/woman. As a woman, I would not have the confidence to start a new relationship right away either. Love sometimes needs a lot of time. Well . . he was an actor. There are better actors. For me, RH, when he was alive, is just too slippery. This is what all beaurocrats have in common: "Too slippery!"

Narcissist?

This is what Phil did on every show...CHALLENGE

I agree! In very poor taste indeed.

So true

I agree with you. Donahue was quite biased when talking to Marc Christian and his lawyer. Some of the audience were very biased against homosexuality.

Phil always played the devil's advocate. You didn't just go on his show and spew BS.

Sigdrifa Ragnvald knowing it will kill them...

You could say, a poisoned sausage❗😉😛

Marc deserved the money

Likes Phil Donahue he was a good talk host

@@stacitaylor1064 Well not these days, people live for years with it now. But still, it's a lifetime of heavy medication.

The audience was tacky for laughing and snickering throughout the interview. I am not pro gay but Marc was a class act who sat there and took it in style. I saw one dumb woman lift her fists up and put both thumbs down. How un-classy can you get.

We also have to remember this was in the 1980's...views were very stiff and religious bound. Thank God for knowledge and evolution.

@@ellebelle6410 Yet you say you are NOT Pro Gay. You are a hypocrite and are just as bad as them.

@@svz2000 wow I disagree but God bless you anyway.

yes. in those times it was seen as weird and certainly funny. sad, sad.

Ashley100586 T no its not. just another delusion quite common lately.

Ashley100586 T as is mine.

BB King - NOT ALL of us!!!! Those of us with morals, that is.

@@libertygiveme1987 You couldn't be more self-righteous. Grow up.

@@maxalberts2003 Leave them to stew in their narrow-minded prejudice.

Love hurts back door at the rare end shit comes out yah hahahaha

Some love-hate shit going on there. But, why he is clean, not infested? Maybe Rock was in some kind of denial shit?

The disease still carries a heavy stigma in the present day depending on where you live at…..I remember hearing about a old classmate of mine had died back in 2011, he was 25 at the time and his mother went around telling people he died from cancer….might’ve been technically true, but I heard about 5 years later after his death from 2 mutual friends that he actually died from AIDS, not being funny, but everyone knew he was a homosexual, it was no secret. His mother never revealed that it was AIDS related because the small town we live in is still very backwards.

Maybe! Uh-oh! Somebody really gonna get it from Marlo! 😂🤪

Joanna R

Phil usually plays devils advocate he takes on the role of what many ignorant american are thinking at home.

Loraine Macdonald no

Totally pathetic. And I bet his ugly self is brimming with secrets. I can't stand Donahue.

Did he get it in jail?

The number of people who have died from the AIDS virus: zero.

Dis he pass from aids too

@@stjohnssoupPossibly. There are same-sex relationships in men’s prison (coerced as well as consensual), and there are a number of cases of prisoners contracting HIV through same-sex contact.

Who do you think died? Do you know if Mark Christian died?

I wonder if he didn't really have AIDS but not tell anyone....

I actually do not see it that way. Phil had to present both sides. His approach was more from a very misunderstanding and ignorant public than his personal feelings. I say that not actually liking Phil that much, lol.

m williams to be honest I haven’t seen that much of him, but he seemed to sneer a lot at both Marc Christian and the lawyer and seemed to encourage the idiot audience.

Because he has a huge pay check. Many such whores in this world darling

I agree.

Not rude, blunt!

+Robert D'Avanzo Why do you keep going off subject? Answer the question.

+Debra Scott Wow. I didn't know he passed. I met him at a bar in West Hollywood maybe 2006-2007? Very nice man. He was doing something rather funny and outrageous in the bar, but would rather not post about it.

+Babsy Boone You keep talking out the left side of your vulgar mouth and never say anything of substance. You are a coward in the face of AIDS. AIDS kills and continues to kill at an alarming rate. Face the truth and stop trying to use me as your way out of the truth.

+Babsy Boone Little Ms. Babs, get real. Whatever Marc Christian was doing in that bar is none of your business, nor mine. People are allowed to make comments without your superficial intrusions. YOU, obviously, have never experienced death from AIDS from a very close loved one or even a dear friend. And once you have experienced this absolute horrific, painful, degrading, emotional death - you will never know what you are talking about. People like you are just full of bullshit and have no idea what you are really talking about. Marc Christian brought this to the forefront of the AIDS epidemic (from unprotected sex) because of a long term sexual partner that did not tell him he was infected. You say that Rock Hudson is your hero - you are so dillutional. Little girl, this is not the Sunday morning funny papers.

+Babsy Boone YOU certainly do have a lot of self-hatred.

they are the equiv hillbilly trump voter

Its called being american

@@kgspvgsp7569 no it’s called being an idiot

I understand Marc being upset but he knew when he had sex with Rock he was taking a risk or with any other gay man!

@@nancyjones9925 it’s not just homosexual disease damn

I agree totally.

You have no sense of humor.

There's nothing to laugh at. People dying of AIDS is not now or ever a funny thing.

There's nothing funny about people dying from AIDS, much less any disease. Some people are just really blind and ignorant.

I think it was because it was so long ago n pretty much everybody was in the dark about aids

@@nancyjones9925 People with "perfect" lives still judge and are in the dark.

PREACH!!!!!

+The Scran Line You are correct to call them ignorant...but remember, ignorance just means not knowing. It doesn't mean they are haters or stupid. This was 1989. By today's standards they do seem really backwards. But back then, trailblazers like Phil Donahue put theses topics on the air when no one else wanted to even acknowledge these ideas. It's in part BECAUSE of shows like these and brave albeit ignorant audiences that we can look back now and see how far we've come.

+Phildog1 I doubt that very much because under the gag of political correctness and the tendency human beings have to follow the pack and think themselves to be"with it " the natural abhorrence for sexual perversion will always be there.

+ The Scran Line, I totally agree!

I see the anti gay baiters are active here in the comments as they have nothing except drumming up fear of a disease none will get

Phil Aschio