Jimmy, Jimmy (Image via video still) The great Stephen Stucker of Airplane! fame (“There's a sale at Penneys!”) appeared on Donahue in a segment shot in September 1985 on which he discussed having full-blown AIDS.
Stucker was one of the only Hollywood figured who went public with his condition, and while he was hardly representative of the average person with HIV — he was a jester by nature and seemed to be on the verge of denialism, doing whatever it took to get from day to day — his appearance is, IMO, historically important.