Ryan Murphy, the evening's one and only honoree at amfAR's 6th twelve-monthly Inspiration Gala Los Angeles at Milk Studios on Oct. 29 took the privilege to give his powerful and personal speech by sharing a few stories from his past life in what he called "the speech of my life".
Several celebrities like Lady Gaga who gave her performance, Angela Bassett, Emma Roberts, Evan Peters, Lea Michele (with her beau Matthew Paetz), Cheyenne Jackson, Chloe Sevigny, Jamie King, Dylan Penn, Billie Lourd, Sarah Paulson, Zendaya, Jamie Lee Curtis, Alessandra Ambrosio, Diane Kruger, Joshua Jackson, Sara Hyland, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and more attended the event.
Gwyneth Paltrow was the host of the event and Julia Roberts presented the award to Murphy.
Murphy opened up his experience all through his HIV/AIDS crisis that pushed him to tackle as greatly as he can in his professional life.
Murphy, now 49, exposed that he would usually "literally have a panic attack" and go to the local emergency room for an HIV test "once or so a month."
He continued that in a 10-year duration, he did further 60 blood draw tests: "I know so many of you in this room can relate to this. And with these tests, which young people today don't know, came two weeks of waiting. Waiting for the results. I would waste away from nerves. I would not eat. I would break into tears at odd times. And I would wait for the eventual death that I knew was coming my way."
He said addressing the crowd, "I look out here tonight, and I want to tell you guys that this is an important room. And this is a room that literally can, and has, changed the world in my estimation. ... This is the room that can help to find a cure for HIV/AIDS by 2020."
"You only get one life, you only get one chance to tell your story," he continued in his speech. "And I think ... others here in this room will agree with me that an entire generation was propelled out of the closet because of the HIV/AIDS crisis, myself included. And was it easy? Not always. But was it worth it? Absolutely."
Sharon Stone directed the live auction and Lady Gaga spend $200,000 for a photograph of Elizabeth Taylor. The event raised $3.1 million for the AIDS organization.
