When celebrities show up to protest, the media follows — but so does the backlash

Alyssa Milano first became an activist more than 30 years ago. But she tells the story of her eureka moment like it was yesterday. In the late 1980s, when she starred in the sitcom Who's the Boss?, one of her fans was a teenager named Ryan White who was HIV positive. The two became friends. "He asked me if I would go on TV and give him a kiss to show that you couldn't get AIDS from casual contact,

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