: Health Hinge

Sighsten Herrgård (1943–1989) was a Swedish fashion designer. He was the first Swedish celebrity with AIDS to go public about it, “giving AIDS a face”.

Sighsten Herrgård received his fashion education at Beckmans School of Design in Stockholm and at the pattern development academies in Stockholm and Copenhagen. His career took off in 1966 when he won the Courtauld International Design Competition with a collection of unisex clothing. In the 1970s Herrgård established internationally in Paris and North America; he also started a company in Stockholm and worked with television, magazines and shows.

On 30 July 1987 Herrgård held a dramatic press conference, stating “I’m going to die. I have AIDS. I may only have months left, but I want to die with dignity”.

At this time in Sweden the disease and its risks were still little understood. Herrgård much discussed this with his doctors and decided that “AIDS needed to get a face”. Although doctors only gave him months to live, a year at most, he survived another two years.

Jacob Dahlin (13 May 1952 in Kristianstad, Skåne, Sweden — 10 October 1991, of AIDS[citation needed]) was a popular Swedish TV- and radio-host.

Dahlin got his big break-through with the radio-program Galaxen (”The Galaxy”) in the beginning of the 1980s. He later acted on popular TV-shows such as “Jacobs Stege” (”Jacob’s Ladder”) and “Caramba!”. In almost every episode of Jacobs Stege, Dahlin used his famous quote “Skål, ta mig fan!” (”Cheers, for crying out loud!”), which is still a popular cheer.

Guests on his radio show include famous Swedish comedian Täppas Fogelberg.

Dahlin studied the Russian language and often reported about happenings in Russian popular culture. He also went to Moscow with his TV-show Jacobs Stege, broadcasting with one of the most popular TV-shows in Russia at the time, The Morning Post, with Jurij Nikolajev as host. Nikolajev later got invited to Sweden to be on Jacobs Stege, and brought with him actress Alla Pugacheva. Pugacheva and Dahlin became good friends and she was a frequent guest on his TV-show.

Jacob Dahlin also recorded with Alla Pugacheva, including the single “Superman” as a duet. The recording led to Pugacheva getting to record her first entire English-speaking album, Alla Pugacheva in Stockholm, which was released in 1985.

Other guests on his program include Diana Ross, Boy George, Princess Stéphanie of Monaco, Janet Jackson, Tina Turner, Cher, Donna Summer, Liza Minnelli.

Dahlin died in 1991 due to AIDS-related causes. Dahlin was homosexual.[citation needed] When Alla Pugacheva was competing in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1997 with her song Primadonna, she honoured Dahlin by dedicating it to him, saying “This song is for you, Jacob” in an interview.

Jacques Derrida. With Cristina de Peretti. Ed. del Orto, Madrid 1998.
Homografías. With Ricardo Llamas. Espasa-Calpe, Madrid 1999. (can be downloaded as PDF)
Francisco J. Vidarte (ed.): Marginales. Leyendo a Derrida. Aula Abierta, UNED, Madrid 2000.
Extravíos. With Ricardo Llamas. Espasa-Calpe, Madrid 2001. (can be downloaded as PDF)
Derritages. Une thèse en déconstruction. L’Harmattan, Paris 2001.
Guerra y filosofía. La concepción de la guerra en el pensamiento filosófíco. With José García Caneiro. Tirant lo Blanc, Valencia 2002.
Filosofías del siglo XX. With mit F. Rampérez. Síntesis, Madrid 2005.
D. Córdoba, J. Sáez, P. Vidarte (Eds..): Teoría queer. Egales, Madrid 2005.
¿Qué es leer? La invención del texto en filosofía. Tirant lo Blanc, Valencia 2006.
Ética Marica. Proclamas libertarias para una militancia LGTBQ. Egales, Madrid 2007.

He contributed to a number of translations, courses, and publications such as:
Cristina de Peretti, Velasco (ed.), Conjunciones. Derrida y compañía. Madrid, Ed. Dykinson, 2007.
Masculinitats per al segle XXI. Barcelona, CEDIC, 2007.

After studying philosophy at the Universidad Pontificia Comillas (UPC) in Madrid/Spain, as well as psychoanalysis (Master, Universidad Complutense Madrid) and pedagogy (Certificado de Aptitud Pedagógica (CAP), UPC/Madrid), Vidarte became a Doctor of Philosophy at Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) in Madrid with his dissertation about Jacques Derrida.

From the mid-90s onwards, Paco Vidarte, who was gay,[1] was an active member of the gay movement in Spain, and especially Madrid. He was a member of the group “Radical Gai”, and later became one of the leading theoretics and philosophers of the Spanish LGBT-groups. Vidarte was the first to discuss “Teoría Queer” (Queer Theory) at Spanish university and published an impressive, internationally renowned number of articles and books about J. Dérrida as well as about LGTB-theory.

He was a professor at UNED-university until his death in Madrid in 2008, caused by a malign form of lymphatic cancer and HIV.

Francisco “Paco” Javier Vidarte Fernández (1 March 1970 - 29 January 2008 in Madrid) was a Spanish philosopher, writer and LGBT-activist.

Dear Mr. Prohack (1949)
The Ringer (1952)
The Sound Barrier (1952)
The Holly and the Ivy (1952)
The Cruel Sea (1953)
The Heart of the Matter (1953)
Scent of Mystery (1960)
Nothing But the Best (1964)
King Rat (1965)
Alfie (1966)
The Sea Gull (1968)
Too Late the Hero (1970)
The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer (1970)
Madame Sin (1972)
A Doll’s House (1973)
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974)
Robin and Marian (1976)
Voyage of the Damned (1976)
A Bridge Too Far (1977)
Watership Down (1978) (voice)
The Boys from Brazil (1978)
Zulu Dawn (1979)
Saint Jack (1979)
A Game for Vultures (1979)
Bad Timing (1980)
Rising Damp (1980)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Brimstone and Treacle (1982)
The Missionary (1982)
Trading Places (1983)
The Razor’s Edge (1984)
A Room with a View (1985)
Bleak House (1985)
The Whoopee Boys (1986)
Maurice (1987)
September (1987)
A Child’s Christmas in Wales (1987)
Bangkok Hilton (1989)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Return from the River Kwai (1989)
Kick Series 1-5 1987-1991
Toy Soldiers (1991)
A Murder of Quality (1991)
Noises Off (1992)

Privately bisexual,[4] Elliott was married twice, the first time to the British actress Virginia McKenna for a few months in 1954, and the second an open marriage to actress Susan Robinson, with whom he had two children.[4] His daughter Jennifer Elliott (born in 1964) died by suicide (hanging) in 2003.[4] Denholm Elliott was diagnosed with HIV in 1987,[4] and died in 1992 of AIDS-related tuberculosis at the age of 70 at his home on Ibiza, Spain. His widow Susan Elliott set up a charity, the Denholm Elliott Project, in his honour and collaborated on his biography.[5] She also worked closely with the UK Coalition of People living with HIV and AIDS. Susan Elliott died on April 12, 2007 following a fire in her flat in London.[4]

After the war, he made his film debut in Dear Mr. Prohack (1949). He went on to play a wide range of parts, often playing ineffectual and occasionally seedy characters, such as the journalist Bayliss in Defence of the Realm, the abortionist in Alfie, and the washed-up film director in The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz.

He made many television appearances, notably in plays by Dennis Potter, including Follow The Yellow Brick Road (1972), Brimstone and Treacle (1976) and Blade on the Feather (1980). He took over for an ill Michael Aldridge for one season of The Man in Room 17 (1966) and also appeared in the series Thriller (1975).

In the 1980s he won three consecutive BAFTA awards as best supporting actor for Trading Places as Dan Aykroyd’s kindly butler, A Private Function and Defence of the Realm, as well as an Academy Award nomination for A Room with a View. He also became familiar to a wider audience as the well meaning but ineffectual Dr. Marcus Brody in Raiders of the Lost Ark and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

In 1988, Elliott was awarded the CBE for his services to acting. His career included many stage performances, including with the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Elliott was born in London, England, the son of Nina (née Mitchell) and Myles Laymen Farr Elliott.[2] He attended Malvern College and trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. In the Second World War, he joined the Royal Air Force, training as a radio operator and gunner.[3] In 1942, his bomber was shot down over Denmark, landing in the sea;, he spent the rest of the war in a prisoner of war camp in Silesia.

Denholm Mitchell Elliott, CBE (31 May 1922 – 6 October 1992) was a distinguished English actor of stage and screen, with over 120 major film and TV credits.[1]