. . #JimLyons (October 8, 1960 – April 12, 2007) was a film editor, screenwriter and actor who died in Manhattan of squamous cell carcinoma. Lyons,who was HIV positive, was 46 years old. . Lyons, who frequently collaborated with his ex-partner #ToddHaynes, is best known for editing #SofiaCoppola’s #TheVirginSuicides (1999) and editing and co-writing Haynes’ #VelvetGoldmine (1998). He also acted in films, including Haynes’ Poison (1991) and #PostcardsFromAmerica (1994). . Lyons, a graduated of @nyuniversity, was a member of @actupny. In a 2005 interview with @schulmanny, he spoke at length about AIDS. . “I will never forget reading in the NY Times, one of the first editorials about AIDS, defining that it was scary but it was OK because it wasn’t going to ever hit the general population. It couldn’t be more clear, OK your not—or at that time friends of mine – were not part of this country. . I think I know when I was infected – and I think it was the third time I had gay sex, and it was probably in ’83. But it was in ’81 or ’82, and I got this terrible sickness that corresponded with everything that you are supposed to get when you first get AIDS. No one could figure it out. They thought I had hepatitis. It wasn’t that. They thought I had CMV. It wasn’t that. All the endocrinologist could figure out was that it was a virus that he had never heard of. . And we left it that way, because it took years, of course, to develop. And that was in ’82. I remember there was a little book store on St. Mark’s place, that is not there any more, and there was a tiny little pamphlet that talks about the gay plague, GRID. I read it, and I thought, my god – maybe this is what I have. . At another point, I was sick with something. And I went to see the doctor Barbara Starrett, and she basically scared the shit out of me. She talked about it—she said, there is a terrible, terrible, terrible virus out there, and if you are telling me that you are not---you know that you are having unprotected sex, and doing this – you’re gonna die. And sadly, I think I was already infected at that point. But, I’ll never forget Barbara – I didn’t know her – she just zoomed right in there.” (at NYC AIDS Memorial)