amfAR Honorees
amfAR Honorees
Las Vegas

Sylvester and Jennifer Stallone
“It’s up to all of us to keep the fires of hope blazing until that day comes and it will—this disease will be beaten to a pulp and the world’s fist with be lifted in glorious victory.” – Sylvester Stallone
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Venezia

“There are tens of millions of people that need yet to be saved. And resources from events like this and fundraising and great donors who have helped amfAR and other groups are really saviors for this planet. Not only for HIV/AIDS, other pandemics and other issues. Together we can solve any problem.”
Palm Beach
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Venezia
Palm Beach

Unable to attend due to COVID, Jane Lynch sent a video message accepting her Award of Courage: “I dearly wanted to be there tonight to support amfAR and the excellent work that they’ve been doing for so many years. It’s extremely important that we all keep going, we keep supporting amfAR until HIV, that most cunning of viruses, is vanquished, once and for all. And I’d like to thank everyone at amfAR for choosing to recognize me tonight…It’s a great honor. I care deeply about a number of causes, but especially the fight against AIDS, and against its stigma, homophobia, and discrimination of all kinds.”
Los Angeles

“I am grateful that amfAR continues … to do the incredible work that they do, as this illness continues to affect the Black community, in particular, Black women. Black women are disproportionately affected by the AIDS crisis. I was also personally touched by the efforts of amfAR’s dedicated research that affected me, with one of my staffers, who after years of [living] with the illness is now undetectable.”
Venezia
New York

“[In the early days] it was impossible not to be aware of the impact that AIDS had on our creative community and be profoundly shaken by it.”
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Los Angeles
Milan
Hong Kong
New York

“Like many of you, I’ve lost friends to AIDS and have friends living with HIV today, so amfAR’s work is very important to me….I am deeply grateful for this award. I’d like to dedicate it to my two heroes, Dr. Mathilde Krim and Dame Elizabeth Taylor.”
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Los Angeles

“Today I understand that a courageous life is the only one worth living. I come from a Bible-thumping background that wasn’t particularly open or accepting of curiosity….I may not have known it then, but daring to ask questions and redefine right and wrong when everybody around me spoke in absolutes was my first attempt at a courageous life.”
Milan
São Paulo
Hong Kong
New York
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Milan
São Paulo
Hong Kong
New York
Los Angeles
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Milan
Inspiration New York
São Paulo
Hong Kong
Los Angeles
“I’m very honored to be here tonight as amfAR’s big gay of the year. I have to tell you this right up front if I could go back in time and tell my 18-year-old self that I would be alive in 2015 receiving this award, that young man could not have believed it. I have lost over 10 friends to HIV/AIDS and honestly, I consider me standing here to be some kind of miracle in the world and I think many of us in this room feel the same way.”
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Milan
Inspiration New York
São Paulo

“AIDS has taken too many of the people that we love—gay, straight, black, white. We have lost so many people, so many beautiful people. So many talented people. This epidemic has just got to come to an end. That’s why I support amfAR and I believe that they will find a cure. They have to find a cure.”
Hong Kong
“I’m so touched, because when you work for an incredible organization you don’t think there’s a return—that you’ll be honored and given an award for things that you should do and have the responsibility to do. But what I’m most delighted about is amfAR is finally here in Hong Kong. Thirty years ago I started my career here, and this is where I learned that charity can be fun and good for the soul.”