Another academic powerhouse is Richard’s brother David, a professor and the founding director of the UCLA Art and Global Health Centre. He teaches art activism at the university and also has a PhD, just like his sister. He is also a fierce AIDS activist and headed a project called Through Positive Eyes, which is a collaborative photography project aimed at telling the stories of hundreds of people living with HIV and AIDS.
David appeared on celebrity.land ahead of World AIDS Day in 2019 to discuss the project alongside Richard, who wrote the forward for the accompanying book. Speaking on the importance of the project, Richard gushed about his brother, saying, “I think that David has done an extraordinary job in all the work he’s done; whether it’s dance, or it’s puppets, or it’s theatre — in this case it’s photography for HIV-positive people to communicate with the world as human beings.”
“We understand each other by how we feel about things and even more so, how we feel informs how we create.”
David also identifies as gay and wrote about seeing his brother perform in Bent on Broadway in 1980; the play explores the persecution of gay people in Nazi Germany and helped David come to terms with his sexuality. Writing for the Center Theatre Group, he said, “I went to see the play several times, watching my straight brother play a gay man in Nazi Germany who lands in a concentration camp.”
“Seeing the play would have been a harrowing experience for any viewer, but it was particularly so for me because, at that moment in my life, I was beginning to realize that I was gay.
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