Jeanie Boulet's Impact on HIV Representation in Television

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Reuben, the actor who portrayed Jeanie Boulet in the TV show ER, expresses pride in Boulet's portrayal as an HIV-positive character who defied the narrative of dying from AIDS complications. Boulet's character broke ground as a married professional woman of color who contracted HIV from her husband in the mid-'90s. Her storyline helped challenge stereotypes and raise awareness about HIV transmission.

"One of the things that I’m most proud of, if not the most proud of, is that Jeanie Boulet walked out of that ER.”Reuben is especially proud that Boulet was able to walk "out of that ER" in 1999 and have a full life instead of dying from AIDS complications, as was often the narrative around positive characters.“She was really brave and was navigating a terrain that no one else had before on television and certainly in that hospital," Reuben told.

Reuben credits Jeanie Boulet for helping to "reduce the stigma and the shame and the misinformation about HIV and AIDS."most proud of, is that Jeanie Boulet walked out of that ER,” the actress explained. “She did not die from AIDS. She walked out of that ER after having remarried and adopted a baby. Because you know what? At that time, late ‘90s medicine was helping people. It was literally giving people with HIV their lives back, many of them.

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