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Evenings with History Lecture to Address AIDS Activism in Arkansas - News

Evenings with History Lecture to Address AIDS Activism in Arkansas - News
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Arkansas man restores cemetery holding remains of AIDS victims

The Files Cemetery in Hot Springs holds the remains of AIDS victims but recently became overgrown until a neighbor unknowingly recovered that legacy.

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Ruth Coker Burks and the missing monument

Ruth Coker Burks and the missing monument
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Ruth Coker Burks: 'I had no idea of the hatred towards men dying of Aids'


Ruth Coker Burks’ life changed one afternoon in 1986 when she went to visit a friend with cancer in an Arkansas hospital. There, the 26-year-old happened upon a curious scene: a group of nurses drawing straws to see who would have to enter a room with a forbidding red tarpaulin hung over the door. Intrigue got the better of her, and she decided to investigate. Inside the room was Jimmy, a young man weighing about five stone, evidently in his final hours, and crying out for his mother.
Coker Burks rang his family home, only to be told that they had no interest in seeing him. “My son died eight years ago when he went gay,” his mother said tersely. For Coker Burks, there was nothing left to do, except the right thing. She held his hand and whispered reassurances into his ear. Jimmy, believing his ‘mama’ had finally come — and Coker Burks didn’t contradict him — died peacefully.

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All The Young Men by Ruth Coker Burks review: how one brave woman helped care for Aids patients in the 1980s


All The Young Men by Ruth Coker Burks review: how one brave woman helped care for Aids patients in the 1980s
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Ruth Coker Burks is visiting a friend in hospital when she hears a man calling for help from behind a door marked with a biohazard sign. “He’s got that gay disease,” a nurse tells her when she asks why nobody is answering the call. “They all die.”It’s 1986, and Burks is in Little Rock, the capital of the deeply conservative US state of Arkansas. She’s scared of catching Aids too, but she knows how it feels to be an outcast and a deeper instinct kicks in. She ends up sitting with Jimmy for 13 hours until he dies.  

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All the Young Men by Ruth Coker Burks review – an uplifting memoir


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In the spring of 1986, Ruth Coker Burks was in the medical centre in Little Rock, Arkansas, visiting a friend with cancer, when she noticed three nurses drawing straws to see which one would have to enter a patient’s room. Curious, she snuck down the corridor to take a look. The door was hung with a scarlet tarp and a biohazard sign. Food trays were piled on the floor outside, along with a cart of isolation suits and masks. Inside, she found an emaciated young man calling for his mother.
When Coker Burks challenged the nurses, one of them told her she was crazy to go in. “He’s got that gay disease,” she said. “They all die.” They refused to contact the patient’s mother, and so Coker Burks made the call from a payphone herself. “My son is already dead,” the woman told her. “My son died when he went gay.” Appalled, she went back to the room and sat with the young man, holding his hand until he died a few hours later. But when she told the nurses he was dead, they insisted that she was now responsible for the body. It took hours of phone calls before she found a funeral home willing to perform the cremation. As for the ashes, she buried them herself in a cookie jar at Files Cemetery in Hot Springs, where her family owned some land.

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