Pix That Make You Go Hmmm....

I recently saw this add on one of my favorite Instagram's to follow. (HERE:)  I found the ad, and the image really beautiful, powerful and looking back to when it came out, incredibly sad.  The 1984 ad, from LA Cares AIDS campaign, features actress Zelda Rubinstein. In 1984, she was the the central figure in a series of advertisements, directed towards gay men specifically, promoting safer sex and AIDS awareness. Rubinstein did so at risk to her own career, especially so shortly after her rise to fame, and admitted later that she did “pay a price, career-wise.”

“I lost a friend to AIDS, one of the first public figures that died of AIDS,” the actress said in an interview with The Advocate. “I knew it was not the kind of disease that would stay in anybody’s backyard. It would climb the fences, get over the fences into all of our homes. It was not limited to one group of people.” She attended the first AIDS Project Los Angeles AIDS Walk. (Source:Wikipedia)