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Ronald Dickson Woodroof (February 3, 1950 – September 12, 1992) was an American man who created what would become known as the Dallas Buyer's Club in March 1988, one of several such AIDS buyers clubs that sprang up at the time.
Sep 29, 2020 · Directed by Jean-Marc Vallée, the film stars Matthew McConaughey as Woodroof, whose journey goes from grief-stricken homophobe to operator of a grey market syndicate providing non-FDA-approved...
The film tells the story of Ron Woodroof (Matthew McConaughey), a cowboy diagnosed with AIDS in the mid-1980s, a time when both the etiology and the treatment of HIV/AIDS are poorly understood and its sufferers subject to stigmatization.
Nov 3, 2013 · Minutaglio eventually tracked down Ron Woodroof, the wiry, mustachioed, foul-mouthed head of Dallas’s homegrown buyers club, and convinced Woodroof to tell him all about his exploits.
Nov 1, 2013 · The film Dallas Buyers Club tells the story of Ron Woodroof, a man with AIDS in the 1980s who smuggled in experimental treatments to fight his disease. NPR's Elizabeth Blair reports that the...
Sep 30, 2021 · I knew the real-life story of Ron Woodroof, the founder of the buyers club in Dallas. I hadn’t known Woodroof personally, but one of my best friends, Derek Hodel, had been the founding...
Nov 1, 2013 · Ron Woodroof. In the film, Ron is portrayed as a part-time rodeo cowboy and electrician prior to his diagnosis; he has a threesome with two women in a rodeo stall and is seen cracking...
Nov 8, 2013 · In Dallas Buyers Club, an emaciated Matthew McConaughey plays real-life AIDS victim, Ronald Woodroof. Woodroof, after he was diagnosed with AIDS in the mid-1980s, started a venture called the...
The Real Life Dallas Buyers Club. by Leah Roebuck. In 1985 Dallas, Texas, Ron Woodroof received news that would change his life forever: he was diagnosed with AIDS. Doctors said he had thirty days to live; however, with little help from mainstream medical institutions, he managed to live another seven years. [1]
Ron Woodroof, 1950-1992. Recording by Matthew McConaughey. Story by Irwin M. Rappaport. Photo by The Dallas Morning News. Ron Woodroof was an unlikely hero, but he rose to the occasion and became a lifeline for many people with AIDS in the Dallas area.
