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Would the money people? The couple met in when Davis was signed by agent Stark Hesseltine, for whom she worked as a secretary and who had previously discovered such talents as Robert Redford, Elizabeth Ashley and Blythe Danner.

Can I call you? But Davis, who sought out chancy roles, simply felt he could not take a risk with his livelihood. The saying comes from Alcoholics Anonymous, an organization from which Davis drew peace, strength and serenity after he joined and became sober in And I was sexually very promiscuous.

Inhe co-authored the first article about a mysterious pneumonia in five Los Angeles gay men for a Centers for Disease Control publication, and he currently serves as chairman of the board of the American Foundation for AIDS Research.

Of Brad Davis Time : Born and raised in Tallahassee, Florida, in , he died on September 8, , aged One of the most beautiful men ever to grace the silver screen, Brad Davis was an openly gay actor in an era when almost no one was out of the closet; starring in one of the gayest films of all time, Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s psychedelic gay sailor movie “Querelle”

Even after they widened the circle inSusan said, only seven people knew that Brad Davis had AIDS until just days before his death. And then he joined AA and got sober. He was wild. Davis, who struggled with substance abuse issues throughout his adult life, was diagnosed with HIV inand died by assisted suicide from a drug overdose due to AIDS in Brad Davis was openly gay and became an outspoken advocate for LGBT rights.

Susan and Alexandra have been tested repeatedly and been found free of the virus. People are so afraid of losing their insurance. And on television, the advertisers might panic. Weisman speaks from personal knowledge when he says that the secrecy around AIDS is costing lives.

Nor was Brad Davis alone in his terror. It is the unwavering conviction of those who knew Davis--respected individuals with decades of collective experience in the entertainment industry--that the talented actor would have been unemployable had he gone public with his secret.

Profile in Courage Anger :

Robert Creel Davis (November 6, – September 8, ), known professionally as Brad Davis, was an American actor, known for starring in the film Midnight Express and film Querelle. But there would be no happy ending. Eight weeks ago, upon returning home from a Fourth of July weekend at the beach with his wife and daughter, actor Brad Davis pulled out a yellow legal pad and drafted a proposal for a book he never got the chance to write.

One step up are the I. I find it with clients time and time again. Weisman knows a thing or two about AIDS. He does not work. He used his platform to raise awareness and promote acceptance, especially during a time when homosexuality was still widely stigmatized.

What emerged is a portrait of personal courage, and terror, that speaks volumes about how far Hollywood, and the nation, still need to go to confront an epidemic that has stolen so many of their best and brightest. Though Davis was surrounded by loved ones when he died, Brad and Susan were very much alone and isolated with their awful secret for most of the six years they knew the actor was infected.

So closely did the family guard their secret that it was only on Saturday, the day before he died, that a weakened Davis called his longtime friend director John Erman and told him. It is telling that while he worked in Hollywood, when Davis finally reached out for help in he turned to New York.