Is it true that michael stipe does NOT have AIDS?

Question

i've heard he hasn't, even from his own mouth...

but this kid i know is convinced that he has AIDs... and his whole family think it's true...

HE DOES NOT HAVE AIDS DOES HE???!!!???

Answer 1

google it S:

Answer 2

I thought he'd had cancer...I may be wrong (I think I might have just made that up...). Pretty sure he doesn't have AIDS though...Wikipedia says in the early 90s rumours circulated that he was HIV+ but he's not.

Answer 3

who cares

Answer 4

Around 1992, rumors that Stipe had contracted HIV began to circulate. "I know it bothered Michael's family," Peter Buck said in 1999. "No matter how much you tell your loved ones you're not dying, it's worrying for them to read it in the paper all the time. Still, as you can see, Michael's perfectly healthy. Stronger than I am." Stipe decided not to make a statement when the rumors began to spread. He later said:

"This might be really naïve, but my number one reason was – this is incredibly naïve, in retrospect – but I really felt like there are a lot of people who might respect me, for whatever reason, because of the music or just because I’m a celebrity, that think that the AIDS story about me might impact them in the way they handle their own private affairs, or in the way they thought about people who were HIV positive or who had AIDS. And, number two, I felt like it was a ludicrous claim and I didn’t feel like sinking to kibbles-and-bits journalism to even respond to it. It was spawned from a ridiculous series of little things and I didn’t feel like it was worth answering."

According to Stipe, he did not start the rumor and he does not know who did:

"Not that I can tell. I wore a hat that said 'White House Stop AIDS'. I’m skinny. I’ve always been skinny, except in 1985 when I looked like Marlon Brando, the last time I shaved my head. I was really sick then. Eating potatoes. I think AIDS hysteria would obviously and naturally extend to people who are media figures and anybody of indecipherable or unpronounced sexuality. Anybody who looks gaunt, for whatever reason. Anybody who is associated, for whatever reason – whether it's a hat, or the way I carry myself – as being q***r-friendly."

So, NO. Michael Stipe does not have AIDS!

Answer 5

Here is a bit of info about Mike's sexuality: