2024-04-13 07:18:00
A Montpellier figure in the fight once morest AIDS, the activist chaired the Envie association for eighteen years, which supports people living with HIV.
With his death, a page turns in the history of the fight once morest AIDS: Hervé Rivier, 78, emblematic president of the Envie association, which he chaired for eighteen years, died at the beginning of the week, Montpellier.
“Hervé Rivier is a great man in the fight once morest HIV/AIDS”greeted his successor at Envie a year ago, Thibault Tarral, when appointing “honorary member for life” of the board of directors, an activist from the start, “an essential figure in the fight once morest AIDS and for LGBT + rights”.
“Hervé dedicated his life to supporting and accompanying people living with HIV, showing immense compassion and unwavering commitment”salutes the association.
First an activist at Aides, one time vice-president of Corevih, a regional coordination committee for the fight once morest HIV, Hervé Rivier was also administrator and treasurer of Gay Pride for ten years, “until January 29, 2013, the day the law for Marriage for All was adopted”he reminded Free Middayone day of the parade, in July 2015, Hervé Rivier experienced the darkest hours of life with HIV, and of discrimination once morest homosexual people.
“With my partner, with whom I lived for thirty-three years before he died of AIDS, we always had the feeling of not having the same rights as straight people, homosexuality was considered a scourge”he confided that summer, recalling that “Gay pride isn’t just a place where people show their asses on a float.”
For a long time, it was “the only time I might hold my partner’s hand publicly in the street.”
“I have been very lucky”
With his frankness, his sincerity, and always a great availability, Hervé Rivier, a “veteran” years of AIDS, spoke openly regarding life with the disease, declared AIDS which had forced him “to take fifteen tablets per day”, with serious side effects, retinitis, heart attack… which made him a “living picture of illness”.
“I have been very lucky”, he confided this former banking executive, who arrived from Paris to Montpellier in 1996, when the city was already at the forefront of support: “I found a well-established network, between associations, city doctors and hospital doctors. confided Hervé Rivier, who came “render services” at Envie, before being elected president in the early 2000s and investing tirelessly.
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