geri: i'm looking for blair warner. edna garrett: you must be her cousin geri. geri: yeah!aw a child with a disability on television as a kid was on a telethon. geri jewell: norman lear cast me as blair's cousin on facts of life. geri: see i had this made, it says i don't have cerebral palsy, i'm drunk. geri jewell: (laughs) it was risky. blair: how was the bus ride? geri: i don't know, i drove. jo: a car? geri: no, a lemon. geri jewell: when facts of life aired, i was so used to kids bullying me and calling me names. that's what was in my head when i saw these kids behind me. and the one kid, there were about four of them, "are you cousin geri from facts of life?" it was a real incredible feeling to be liked by kids. "you mean you're not going to make fun of me? you're not going to call me names? wow! kim fields: facts of life was winning a younger demographic. ethan alter: eventually those kids would grow up and and what stories do you tell then? ethan alter: the 1980s were a radical transformation, how do you live up to the ideals that you set for yourself when you were

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geri jewell: i lived in paranoia in the 80s. absolute total paranoia. geri: name that handicap! the aids outbreak started, i was terrified of people finding out that i'm gay. there was no way i could be openly gay at that time. it would have been career suicide. jim j bullock: i think being gay was admitting to someone that you could have aids. patrick gomez: ultimately we didn't see very many lgbtq characters in sitcoms in the 80's. for most lgbtq communities it was a very dark time. dorothy: seems you had a transfusion while you were there. the hospital thinks the blood may have contained hiv antibodies. rose: hi...v- wait a minute. you're talking about aids! jim colucci: the golden girls, being about older characters, gave the show license to go further and really show how the women reacted to important issues. rose: damn it. why is this happening to me? i mean, this isn't supposed to happen to people like me. you must have gone to bed with hundreds of men. jim colucci: and blanche says a line that i think america needed to hear, which is - blanche: aids is not a bad person's