Date 01/08/2017 - News People
Rose McGowan, bombshell actress turned humanist activist, latest project seeks to put the AIDS epidemic front and center. It's a short film called Ruth, and it's based on the experiences of Ruth Coker Burks, an Arkansas housewife who cared for nearly a thousand AIDS patients abandoned by their families in the 1980s. McGowan tells Elle, "She's an American hero, and one of the many women whose courage and compassion has been buried by silence. It's our responsibility to tell stories like this, and I consider it an honor."
