As a potentially life threatening neuromuscular disease he was
born with progresses, Multimedia Entertainment Activist Nicholas
Snow is focused on preserving his legacy and grateful that his
living-powerfully-with-HIV memoir, Life Positive: A Journey to the
Center of my Heart; his HIV Testing/safer sex awareness anthem
(subtitled in 21 languages), The Power To Be Strong; and four
decades Multimedia Entertainment Activism (currently under the
banner of PromoHomo.TV®) will live on forever.
PALM
SPRINGS, Calif., June 28,
2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- For most of his life,
Nicholas Snow has known he had some
sort of muscle disease. He's never been able to do a pull-up, has
always been an awkward runner, and despite his basketball
player-worthy height of six feet three inches, has never been good
at sports.
"Just look around you and every minute you
see someone in need. I believe that everybody has talent in some
way, so use it to really make this world a better place."
...Bruno Brugnano
In fact, throughout elementary, junior high and high school in
the 1970's in Flagstaff, Arizona,
because of his lack of athleticism, Snow was often bullied and
called a fag (a decade before he knew he was gay).
Snow struggles from the results of childhood trauma due to
bullying to this day, which is one reason he has fought so hard for
decades to make the world a better place for LGBTQ+ folks and their
allies.
LIFE POSITIVE
Snow's living-powerfully-with-HIV memoir, Life Positive: A
Journey to the Center of My Heart (http://www.LifePositiveBook.com)
was published 11 years ago, continuing his quest to inspire
voluntary and confidential HIV counseling and testing worldwide,
and to further combat stigma faced by people living with
HIV/AIDS.
After going public with his HIV status at a press conference in
Bangkok, Thailand, Snow for a time
was one of the world's leading freelance proponents of HIV testing,
having reached over 5,000,000 people with his campaign, including
on national television in Malaysia
and in Thailand (on Modern 9 TV
during a telethon for the Thai Red Cross AIDS Research Centre).
Snow visited Kuala Lumpur,
celebrating the good work of the PT Foundation and Malaysian AIDS
Council, generating media impressions reaching 2.5 million people,
or about 10% of Malaysia's
population.
In her official synopsis, editor Kristin
Johnson writes, "In Bangkok,
Thailand, Hollywood's primo
promo homo on the go-go Nicholas
Snow is eking out a modest living as a foreign
correspondent, actor and media personality when, in a moment of
personal desperation, he makes a decision that changes his life
forever. Decades into the AIDS pandemic and completely armed with
the knowledge to protect himself, during a moment of passion with a
man who is unaware of having HIV, Nicholas has a rare slip in his
safer sex behavior and becomes HIV positive."
Johnson continues, 'What might have been the end of a lifetime
of dreams turns out to be only the beginning of a remarkable
journey that Nicholas himself chronicles in real time as he is
living it. Part 12-step-program 4th-step inventory, part
reality-show-on-paper, this is the painful yet triumphant saga of
how Nicholas Snow uses his own
mistake as an opportunity to empower millions of people throughout
the world by disclosing not only his HIV status, but his
experience, strength and hope as well."
Concludes Johnson, "From Hollywood to Bangkok, to Bali and beyond, including Kuala Lumpur and Palm Springs—with profound
expansion to Singapore,
Mumbai and throughout all of
Asia, and ultimately in 21
languages across the globe—Life Positive: A Journey to the Center
of My Heart could easily be entitled Eat, Pray, Disclose."
THE POWER TO BE STRONG
Yes, if you ask your smart speaker to "Play The Power To Be
Strong by Nicholas Snow" it
will!
Almost 15 years ago—and in support of a key message in his
song's lyrics, "life goes on," Nicholas
Snow and collaborators premiered the HIV testing/safer sex
awareness music video, "The Power To Be Strong," online at
Fridae.com, and theatrically with Hindi subtitles at the
Kashish—Mumbai International Queer Film Festival.
"'The Power To Be Strong' song and music video campaign was
created to reach millions of people around the world about the
importance of voluntary HIV counseling & testing and increased
adherence to safer sex, and to empower the valiant efforts of any
organization or individual participating anywhere in the battle
against HIV/AIDS," explains Snow.
Snow chronicles the creation of The Power To Be Strong music
video campaign in detail in Life Positive.
"I became HIV positive decades into the AIDS epidemic,
completely armed with the knowledge to protect myself. It's still a
bit shocking to me," explained Snow at the time. Determined to
prevent as many people as possible from making his same mistake,
and well into his journey as a person living with HIV, Snow and his
impassioned friends are presenting to the world "The Power To Be
Strong."
"A lot of people at risk for HIV are isolated, lonely and
disenfranchised, and have subconsciously disqualified themselves
from life in general," explained Snow. "I want to get their
attention and empower their self-esteem with the lyric, 'No matter
who you are, no matter what you feel, this is your moment now, and
your life is real, so get tested and live longer and be
strong.'"
With music and lyrics written by Snow in 2009, "The Power To Be
Strong" was produced and arranged by Bruno
Brugnano, one of Thailand's
music industry leaders who has created over 100 albums for Thai and
International artists, including Bird Thongchai McIntyre,
Tata Young, Christina Aguilar, and His Majesty the King of
Thailand's oldest daughter,
Princess Ubol Ratana. It was
Brugnano—who has won several of Thailand's equivalents of the Academy Award
and the Grammy Award—that suggested the song's opera-backed chorus,
provided beautifully by soprano Ayano
Kimura who was recommended by Somtow Sucharitkul, conductor
of the Bangkok Opera.
The video and song can be viewed and listened to for free at a
variety of web sites including
http://www.YouTube.com/ThePowerToBeStrong.
The music video was directed by acclaimed film and video
director O Nathapon, who was born and raised in Thailand.
Brugnano stated, "This was a great opportunity for me because it
combined two of the most important things for me, helping other
people through music. What could be better? Everybody put a lot of
heart and emotion into the project... Support the cause because
nothing is too far from us. Just look around you and every minute
you see someone in need. I believe that everybody has talent in
some way, so use it to really make this world a better place."
The Power to Be Strong single is available for preview and
purchase on iTunes and Amazon.com. The music video, with 21
subtitled versions, is available at
http://www.YouTube.com/ThePowerToBeStrong.
To find out what Snow is up to now, simply visit
http://www.PromoHomo.TV to view hundreds of episodes of multiple
series he's produced for the growing online television network.
Media Contact
Nicholas Snow, Nicholas Snow
Productions LLC, (760) 808-2787, PromoHomoTV@gmail.com,
http://www.promohomo.tv
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