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Hello, my name is Stephen Bennett, and I was Principal Executive Officer of AIDS Project Los Angeles in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, which was a very dark period as there was no hope, there was no treatment for people with HIV, and there was so much terror in the earth and fear in our community. And hate. And it was a really tough time.

APLA began with an facts hotline, and just emergency basic health for people who found out they were sick. It expanded quickly into a food bank, case management, buddy programs, public teaching and a very sophisticated hotline system.

I want to explain you a story about a morning at work that gives you a slice of what life was love. So, it was early on in the morning, and I was going to work. Our building — the windows were shot out — essence warnings — and graffiti was place on the wall saying, “We disgust faggots,” “You be entitled to to die.” All kinds of really vulgar and disgusting things.  And we really didn’t crave our clients coming to their place of safety and refuge to observe it.

So, we position a Teflon coat on the building and we insert bulletproof windows in, and every morning we had a company come and power wash the building. So I went

Actress Amanda Blake was best established for playing Miss Kitty on the TV Western Gunsmoke for 19 years, from 1955 to 1974.

I’m Jean Smart.  I recollect growing up thinking she was sort of glamorous. I don’t think I realized maybe what she did for a living, but I thought she was beautiful and a terrific actress.  I always thought it would be fun to play a character like Miss Kitty.

The red-headed Miss Kitty started as a saloon hostess at the Elongated Branch Saloon in Dodge Municipality, Kansas, and soon became an owner and the saloon keeper.  The series was set in the 1870s and showed Lose Kitty as a strong solo woman who had a next to friendship with the lead nature, U.S. Marshal Matt Dillon, played by James Arness.  There was no explicit romantic relationship between them.  And their only endeavor at romance, a dinner in her room, ended when she was called away to attend to work and returned to find him fast asleep on her bed.

In real life, however, Amanda Blake married five times.  Her fourth marriage, to Frank Gilbert, was the longest lasting.  After Gunsmoke ended, she and Gilbert experimented with the breeding of cheetahs in captivity, eventually breeding seven generations of the big

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  • Who was older, Amanda Blake or James Arness?

    Arness ... born in 1923. Blake was born in Buffalo New York on February 20, 1927.

  • Amanda Blake's real designate is
    • Lisa Gleason.
    • Beverly Louise Neill.
    • Sonya Glossnosnovitch.
    • Amanda Blakowski.
    • Amanda Blake.

      Answer: ... Neill



  • In 1976, only a rare years after she quit Gunsmoke, Amanda Blake was diagnosed as having mouth cancer. The diagnosis prompted her to give up cigarettes. Prior to that, how many packs of cigarettes did she smoke per day?

    Two

  • For her prosperous bout with cancer in the adv 1970's, Amanda Blake was awarded the American Cancer Society's Courage Award in March of 1983. Who was the famous actor who presented her with the award.

    Ronald Reagan (Click HERE for a photo.)

  • In her acceptance speech for the Cancer Socie

    Amanda Blake...did she die of aids?

    Obit from the 80's

    Amanda Blake Died of AIDS, Doctor Says AP Published: November 8, 1989

    . .SACRAMENTO, Calif., Nov. 7— Amanda Blake, the actress who played Miss Kitty on the long-running television series 'Gunsmoke,' died of AIDS-related complications and not, as a hospital and her friends reported at the time, of cancer, her doctor says.

    The doctor, Lou Nishimura, a Sacramento internist, said Monday that Fail to catch Blake, who died at age 60 on Aug. 16, did have throat cancer. But he added, 'That wasn't the reason that she died.'

    Dr. Nishimura spoke after a announce by television station KRBK in Sacramento, where Fail Blake was a longtime resident, quoted her friends as saying now that her death was connected to AIDS. He said that she had suffered from AIDS symptoms for about a year but that he did not know how she had contracted the disease.

    Miss Blake's fifth husband, Mark Spaeth, a developer and Municipality Councilman in Austin, Tex., died of pneumonia in 1985 at age 45. They married in April 1984, and divorced a short time later.

    After Lose Blake died at Mercy General Hospital, a remark by the hospital and her friends reported the cause of dea