Ryan White

Ryan White (December 6, 1971 - April 8, 1990) was a teenager from Kokomo, Indiana, USA, in the 1980s, who drew national and, eventually, worldwide attention due to his infection with HIV. It has been speculated that the reason White got so much attention was that he was a heterosexual white middle class boy who was not part of any of the regular minority groups stigmatized by the disease.

Further reading

• Ryan White's Testimony before the President's Commission on AIDS