Human Rights and Activism
Rubinstein became active in the fight against HIV/AIDS in 1984. She appeared in a series of advertisements, directed towards gay men specifically, promoting safer sex and AIDS awareness. Rubinstein did so at risk to her own career, especially so shortly after her rise to fame, and admitted later that she did "pay a price, career-wise". She attended the first AIDS Project Los Angeles AIDS Walk.
Read more about this topic: Zelda Rubinstein
Famous quotes containing the words human and/or rights:
“Something must happen; that is the reason for most human relationships. Something must happen; even servitude in love, in war, or death.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)
“This is no war for domination or imperial aggrandisement or material gain.... It is a war ... to establish, on impregnable rocks, the rights of the individual and it is a war to establish and revive the stature of man.”
—Winston Churchill (1874–1965)