Keith Christopher, a singer, songwriter, actor and AIDS activist, made television history when he appeared as the first openly gay HIV positive performer to portray an HIV positive gay character on NBC's "Another World." He was next invited to create the role of Wyatt Sanders, a gay HIV counselor, on the daytime drama "The Guiding Light." This recurring role led to an NBC News profile by Tom Brokaw, and interview segments on "Entertainment Tonight," the PBS show "In the Life," Fox's "TV Nation" and appearances on several network television talk shows and radio shows. At GHMC's 1997 AIDS Walk in Central Park, Keith was a keynote speaker, along with Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins and Rosie Perez. He spoke of his long struggle with AIDS and his body's inability to benefit from the newest drug treatments. In 1995, Keith was honored by Billboard Magazine with a Certificate of Achievement award for his song "Smiling in the Dark." His song "One People" was commissioned by the United Nations Environmental Project, and "Pieces of Lives" was written for and performed by Keith at the first display of the Names Project Memorial Quilt in New York City. At the time of his death in 1998 he was nearing completion of his first CD, Naked Truth.