drug treatments. With this reality, he wrote an article for The Volunteer on the inefficacy of protease inhibitors for his condition, titled "New hope ... but not for me: Feel poisoned by Protease? Don't feel alone". Around 1997, Christopher served as the spokesperson for a pharmaceutical company in a series of national radio spots. The year before he had switched his medication from saquinavir to ritonavir to Crixivan, before near-fatal side effects convinced him to cease all antiretrovirals. He revealed in POZ Magazine in 1998: "I was so dizzy and anesthetized that I asked myself, 'At what price survival?' I would much rather have a reasonable quality of life – working on my CD, making love with my boyfriend, and having a social life – than walk around like a zombie with an acceptable viral load." From the mid-1990s Christopher had been working on a music album. In 1994 he was honored by Billboard Magazine with a Certificate of Achievement award for his song "Smiling in the Dark". As an environmentalist, another song of his, "One People" was commissioned by the United Nations Environmental Project, and "Pieces of Lives" was written for and performed by Christopher at the first display of the Names Project Memorial Quilt in New York City. Christopher died of AIDS in New York at the age of 40 on 23 February 1998. At the time of his death, Christopher's debut album Naked Truth was near completion. The instrumental and backup tracks of some songs on this release were completed after his death and the album was then posthumously released by Significant Other Records later that year. Filmography Another World (NBC) – 1995 The Guiding Light (CBS) – 1995–1996 Discography Albums 1998: Naked Truth References External links 1957 births 1998 deaths American gay actors American LGBT rights activists American gay musicians American LGBT singers American LGBT songwriters LGBT people from Oregon AIDS-related deaths in New York (state) Male actors from Portland, Oregon 20th-century American male actors Gay singers Gay songwriters American male singer-songwriters Singer-songwriters from Oregon Musicians from Portland, Oregon American male soap opera actors American male musical theatre actors 20th-century American male singers 20th-century American singers 20th-century LGBT people American gay writers