Was tim richmond gay
Tim Richmond's death from AIDS evoked compassion, tears. The girlfriends dying in his wake, silence.
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Beyond the grave of Tim Richmond lies a trail of adorable women, following him into the ground.
Fresh flowers rest beside the tombstone of one former girlfriend. A second ex-girlfriend, still fighting for her life, has picked out her casket. At least two former partners are in seclusion on the East Coast, awaiting the inevitable.Others - friends suspect a dozen or more - have passed on quietly, hoping to take this confidential with them: Richmond, the late auto racing star, infected them with the virus that causes AIDS.
Panic seized women across the land when media reports leaked the generate of Richmond's death in August 1989. LaGena Lookabill Greene, Richmond's former fiancee now dying of AIDS in Charlotte, received more than two dozen calls.
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``From those calls alone - only counting the ones from Charlotte - I could have started a support team of women exposed to HIV from Tim,' said Greene, 35. ``There would be about 30 in that aid group. They told me they were exposed, that they had had sex with Tim and they were worried
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Awesome driver. Probably straight.
ETA Actually, thinking advocate on it, there is just about no way he could have been a peter puffer in Winston Cup back in those days. I'm sure he got AIDS the same way Magic did...fucking every female within a 20 mile radius of him, wherever he went. He was wild as shit. Might own even gotten it from a needle.
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I watched the show last night too. The first time I missed the first 20 minutes or so, and the interviews and such made me consider there was a 50/50 chance he was gay. I stayed up and watched it the second time, and came away thinking there was no way he was gay. Earlier in the episode they seemed to bring up more that at that time people didn't really consider you could receive it via hetero sex, and because of that, they(Tim) worked harder to keep it silent. A trip to the net seemed to confirm that he wasn't queer, and Wiki also suggests that he was straight.
Richmond was no good ol' boy
PAUL NEWBERRY Associated Press | Herald-Journal
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.
Tim Richmond was dying from AIDS, but his spirit was undaunted. On a sweltering summer day, he showed up for a race in Nashville -- wearing a leather suit.
"It must have been 110 degrees," Darrell Waltrip recalled, his voice rising, his smile widening. "He was the grand marshal. He was going to start the race.
"Well, he pulled up beside my car and crawled in with me. He was soaking damp. I don't know how he even moved in that suit. He said, 'C'mon, D.W., I'm riding with you.' "
By then, the ride was almost over. Richmond's meteoric life took the checkered flag far too soon, struck down by a impetuous lifestyle and a terrible disease.
But, oh, what a legacy he left behind. Richmond crammed plenty of living into his 34 years, showing a remarkable penchant for going fast on the track -- and even faster outside the fence.
Many NASCAR fans came to the sport after Richmond's death in August 1989. They have no idea what they missed.
"This would have been a different sport if Tim Richmond had lived," driver-turned-owner Richard Childress said.
'Colorful doesn't do him
Late Driver Had A Fatal Attraction Richmond, Who Was Killed By Aids, May Have Infected Dozens Of Women
Auto racing star Tim Richmond infected numerous women with the AIDS virus before his death in 1989, the Miami Herald reported Sunday.
LaGena Lookabill Greene, Richmond’s former fiancee, went public last year that she was dying of AIDS and said she was infected by Richmond. Greene, a former model who lives in Charlotte, N.C., said she has been contacted by women who say they also were infected by Richmond.
“From those calls alone - only counting the ones from Charlotte - I could have started a support group of women exposed to HIV from Tim,” Greene was quoted as saying.
“There would be about 30 in that support group. They told me they were exposed, that they had had sex with Tim and they were worried.”
The Herald reported that at least two former partners of Richmond are in seclusion on the East Coast, dying of AIDS. The Herald said another woman, Debbie Putman, had an encounter with Richmond and died four years ago.
Richmond’s infectious-disease specialist, Dr. David Dodson, was unsure when the race motorcar driver was infected