Was tim richmond gay
Tim Richmond's death from AIDS evoked sympathy, tears. The girlfriends dying in his wake, silence.
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Beyond the serious of Tim Richmond lies a trail of cute women, following him into the ground.
Fresh flowers lie down beside the tombstone of one former lover. A second ex-girlfriend, still fighting for her life, has picked out her casket. At least two former partners are in seclusion on the East Coast, awaiting the inevitable.Others - friends suspect a dozen or more - contain passed on quietly, hoping to take this private with them: Richmond, the late auto racing celebrity, infected them with the virus that causes AIDS.
Panic seized women across the country when media reports leaked the cause of Richmond's death in August 1989. LaGena Lookabill Greene, Richmond's former fiancee now dying of AIDS in Charlotte, received more than two dozen calls.
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``From those calls alone - only counting the ones from Charlotte - I could own started a support organization of women exposed to HIV from Tim,' said Greene, 35. ``There would be about 30 in that support group. They told me they were exposed, that they had had sex with Tim and they were worried
Richmond was no excellent ol' boy
PAUL NEWBERRY Associated Press | Herald-Journal
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.
Tim Richmond was dying from AIDS, but his spirit was undaunted. On a sweltering summer day, he showed up for a race in Nashville -- wearing a leather suit.
"It must have been 110 degrees," Darrell Waltrip recalled, his voice rising, his smile widening. "He was the grand marshal. He was going to commence the race.
"Well, he pulled up beside my car and crawled in with me. He was soaking wet. I don't know how he even moved in that suit. He said, 'C'mon, D.W., I'm riding with you.' "
By then, the travel was almost over. Richmond's meteoric animation took the checkered flag far too soon, struck down by a impetuous lifestyle and a terrible disease.
But, oh, what a legacy he left behind. Richmond crammed plenty of living into his 34 years, showing a unusual penchant for going fast on the track -- and even faster outside the fence.
Many NASCAR fans came to the sport after Richmond's death in August 1989. They have no notion what they missed.
"This would have been a different sport if Tim Richmond had lived," driver-turned-owner Richard Childress said.
'Colorful doesn't do him
Late Driver Had A Fatal Attraction Richmond, Who Was Killed By Aids, May Have Infected Dozens Of Women
Auto racing star Tim Richmond infected numerous women with the AIDS virus before his death in 1989, the Miami Herald reported Sunday.
LaGena Lookabill Greene, Richmond’s former fiancee, went general last year that she was dying of AIDS and said she was infected by Richmond. Greene, a former model who lives in Charlotte, N.C., said she has been contacted by women who express they also were infected by Richmond.
“From those calls alone - only counting the ones from Charlotte - I could own started a sustain group of women exposed to HIV from Tim,” Greene was quoted as saying.
“There would be about 30 in that support team. They told me they were exposed, that they had had sex with Tim and they were worried.”
The Herald reported that at least two former partners of Richmond are in seclusion on the East Coast, dying of AIDS. The Herald said another gal, Debbie Putman, had an encounter with Richmond and died four years ago.
Richmond’s infectious-disease specialist, Dr. David Dodson, was unsure when the race car driver was infected
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Awesome driver. Probably straight.
ETA Actually, thinking back on it, there is just about no way he could have been a peter puffer in Winston Cup support in those days. I'm sure he got AIDS the equal way Magic did...fucking every female within a 20 mile radius of him, wherever he went. He was wild as shit. Might have even gotten it from a needle.
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I watched the show last bedtime too. The first time I missed the first 20 minutes or so, and the interviews and such made me believe there was a 50/50 chance he was gay. I stayed up and watched it the second time, and came away thinking there was no way he was gay. Earlier in the episode they seemed to mention more that at that time people didn't really ponder you could get it via hetero sex, and because of that, they(Tim) worked harder to keep it quiet. A trip to the net seemed to confirm that he wasn't queer, and Wiki also suggests that he was straight.