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![]() ![]() Tennis Player Arthur Ashe Announces He Has AIDS (1992)Ashe was the first African-American male to reach prominence in tennis and was thus a very public figure, even after his retirement, which followed a 1979 heart attack and quadruple-bypass surgery. In 1983, he contracted HIV from a blood transfusion during a second heart surgery. He kept it a secret until 1992, when a newspaper threatened to publish a story about his illness. His subsequent openness about AIDS helped combat the disease's stigma. How much longer did Ashe live? More... Discuss |
6 comments:
LOL! I think that about says it all!
YES!! :)
It looks like he is about to belt one out!
Lauren,
lol!
lol...he doesn't look happy about being mute!!
Drowsey,
hehe...you're right!
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