1980s. Geraldo Rivera in this exclusive stock footage interviews a man working at the Edmund D. Edelman health center in Los Angeles, while AIDS is ravaging the gay community.
“They’re gonna come to Hollywood, they’re gonna be a film star, they’re gonna make it. Even if they hear hundreds of horror stories about the kids that didn’t make it…”
This conversation is happening while the AIDs virus is exploding in major cities across the United States, especially in the gay community. We hear about why underage boys end up selling their bodies on the streets and the age range of these ‘street people’. Has the risk of contracting the virus changed sexual behavior of prostitutes country-wide?
Exclusive ‘BRoll’ footage from Geraldo’s television history.