A former Champaign County Sheriff's Deputy, Scott Hubbard died of AIDS in 1992 and is remembered by his friend Urbana Police Officer Jim Wuersch.

Ruben loved music, writing songs and dressing in dresses.  He died of AIDS in 1990. He is remembered by friends in Champaign, Illinois who made his quilt panel.

Greg Downey from Monticello, Illinois died of AIDS at home surrounded by his mother's love. She talks about Greg, his sexuality and AIDS diagnosis and her promise to him before he died in 1990.

Paul "Paco" Arbogast was unabashedly gay and loving to all who knew him. He died of AIDS in St. Joseph, Illinois in 1986. Paco’s sister and one of Paco’s lovers remember him.

Merrill Eskew co-owned The Little Professor Book Center in Urbana, Illinois. He died of AIDS in 1992.  Merrill's partner and his daughter remember him.