A nation that had ignored so many AIDS-related deaths could not ignore Ryan White’s funeral. Held on April 11, 1990, in “the gothic expanse of Second Presbyterian Church” in Meridian Hills, an ...

Ryan White was a spirited, bright kid who loved basketball, Nintendo and dreaming big. In 1984, 13-year-old Ryan contracted HIV through a contaminated blood transfusion used to treat his hemophilia.

In the late 1980s, Ryan White became a celebrity after his middle school banned him from in-person attendance following his AIDS diagnosis. At a time when there was substantial fear about the epidemic ...