Ashad

Elizabeth Taylor Speech
Length 4:10
Dialogue:
Don't worry, I'm not going to sing. We are here to celebrate the life of Freddie Mercury. An extraordinary rock star, who rushed across our culturallandscape like a comet shooting across the sky. We are here also to tell the whole world that he, like others we have lost to AIDS, died before his time. The bright light of his talent stillexhilarates us even now that his life has been so cruelly extinguished. It needn't have happened, it shouldn't have happened, please, let's not it happen again. Each day, around the world, five thousand peopleare infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Just last week, it was reported in the United States alone, that there are nine thousand actual cases of AIDS among teenage and young adults, withthousands more that probably don't even know they're infected. (Member of audience shouts 'Get off') I'll get off in a minute. I'll get off, I have something to say. There's seventy, there's seventythousand people in this stadium tonight. Look at yourselves, look at how many you are. In just two short weeks, there will be as many new infections as there are people here tonight. Please don't let ithappen to you, you are the future of our world, you are the best and the brightest, you are the shining lights that will illuminate a better world tomorrow. Protect yourselves. If you have sex,everytime you have sex, use a condom, every single time. Straight sex, gay sex, bisexual sex, use a condom, whoever you are, and if you share drugs, don't share a needle. Tonight, we are here to raise moneyto help those living with AIDS. Tonight, we're here to send them a message that we care. But I'm also here with a message for each and every one of you. Protect yourselves, love yourselves, respectyourselves, because I will keep on telling you until you do, and I won't give in, and I won't give up, because the world needs you to live. You see, we really love you. We really care. God bless. Bye