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6. Chuck Panozzo

Best known as Styx’s rocking bass player, Chuck Panozzo has been living with HIV for nearly two decades. In 2001, the co-founder of one of rock and roll’s biggest groups announced that he was gay and living with the disease, which has since progressed into full-blown AIDS. 2007 saw the release of his autobiography, The Grand Illusion: Love, Lies, and My Life With Styx, in which he detailed his struggles. He praises modern medicine as essential in his fight with the disease.

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