![]() Holmes is said to have been afraid of needles, choosing to drink or smoke his drugs of choice, and many close to him say it was highly unlikely he contracted the disease through intravenous drug use. ![]() It is widely alleged, though not certain, that he contracted the disease from gay performer Joey Yale in Holmes’ most well-known (but certainly not only) gay release, “The Private Pleasures of John Holmes.” Yale himself died from AIDS in 1985. Holmes learned of his HIV infection in 1986. ![]() John Holmes’ death in March, 1988 from AIDS-related complications was, along with the similar fates of Rock Hudson and Ryan White and the HIV diagnosis of Magic Johnson, one of several high-profile wakeup calls for HIV/AIDS education and research funding.īut it was Hudson, a closeted Hollywood movie star, who “put a face on the disease” (according to Morgan Fairchild) with his death in 1985, so it was not from a lack of education on Holmes’ part that he knowingly exposed several partners to the virus by continuing to work post-diagnosis.
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