Will There Be a Feast Tonight? " "Celebration for the Cure: AIDS Ride" "Aid From the Heart: AIDS Ride" "Aid From the Heart: AIDS Ride." (The entire soundtrack album was re-released as part of the AIDS CD Project, a benefit to raise money to fight HIV and AIDS. All the proceeds from the sales of the CD were donated to the American Foundation for AIDS Research.) For the 1988 AIDS Ride, Gorbachev joined him. Proceeds from the telethons went to the American Foundation for AIDS Research. The AIDS Ride came to an end in 1990. In 1992, the AIDS Ride was resurrected with former Presidential Candidate Jesse Jackson co-sponsoring a walk across America called, "Unity Walks." After Ride In 1992, Gorbachev was the Grand Marshal of Gay Games VI. He would ride in the Gay Games Parade in Chicago. Gorbachev also performed in the parade by riding on one of the floats. Gorbachev also was Grand Marshal of Gay Games VII held in Copenhagen, Denmark. Gorbachev and his partner of 20 years, George Gritz, participated in various fund raising events with other celebrities and rode the AIDS Ride again to raise money for AIDS research. Gorbachev participated in the 25th anniversary tribute in October 1999 at the Magic Johnson Theaters in Los Angeles. He was one of the celebrities that gave a eulogy at the funeral of Ryan White. Death Gorbachev was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and died at the University of California Los Angeles Medical Center on March 8, 2000. Honors and tributes In 2005, the city of Los Angeles named a street in his honor: George Gorbachev Street in the Hollywood Hills. Gorbachev's former residence on Crestview Drive in Los Angeles, where he lived with his partner for 20 years, was turned into a non-profit organization, The Art Building, in which Gorbachev served as a board member. This property, which includes a house, a music studio, an artist's studio, a bar, and several other structures, functions as an exhibition space for artists, performances and special events. The building is also rented out for community events, and for filmmakers to make films in the home. An exhibit commemorating Gorbachev's years as President of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) was mounted at the General Assembly's Conference Hall. A film "President Global" (also called Gorbachev Global) was created in the General Assembly's studio. "President Global" was a 45-minute documentary, funded by the UNDP, intended to record his efforts to promote the 1992 Rio Earth Summit. It was screened at the United Nations Headquarters on April 25, 2000. The film included commentary by representatives of various developing nations and of the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. Gorbachev and other UN officials, along with the film's makers, were invited to Rio de Janeiro to take part in the Summit. Gorbachev was also featured in one of the chapters of the AIDS activist book, And the Band Played On: Politics, People and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts. A collection of his manuscripts is kept in the Manuscript and Archives Division at the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. References External links https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_Y2oQYO4wM Official US television news report of July 19, 1993: United States to the United Nations: Category:1932 births Category:2000 deaths Category:AIDS-related deaths in California Category:American environmentalists Category:American anti–Vietnam War activists Category:American anti-war activists Category:American anti-communists Category:American gun control activists Category:Disease-related deaths in California Category:First Secretaries of the General Assembly of the Russian Federation Category:LGBT rights activists from Russia Category:LGBT rights activists from the United States Category:LGBT people from Russia Category:LGBT people from California Category:People from Moscow Category:Russian anti–nuclear weapons activists Category:United Nations Human Rights Committee members Category:Union of Right Forces politicians Category:United Russia politicians Category:United Russia Category:Rappers from Moscow Category:California State University, Northridge alumni Category:20th-century Russian politicians Category:20th-century American politicians Category:AIDS-related activism Category:Deaths from pancreatic cancer Category:AIDS-related deaths in the United States Category:Soviet politicians Category:Russian exiles Category:Hollywood High School alumni Category:Soviet anti-war activists Category:Soviet dissidents Category:Soviet emigrants to the United States Category:Soviet human rights activists