Lisa Edelstein

Brief Nudity

Former “club kid” Lisa Edelstein was the toast of New York City for a brief period in the 1980s. Unlike her peers, she didn’t end up a statistic—she created a new life and a new voice for herself by penning a musical about AIDS called Positive Me, which became a springboard for a hosting gig on the MTV show Awake on the Wild Side in 1990. The show was short lived, but audiences responded…