https://www.thetorytouch.org/home daily 1.0 2022-08-12 https://www.thetorytouch.org/who-we-support daily 0.75 2022-12-25 https://www.thetorytouch.org/contact daily 0.75 2022-06-02 https://www.thetorytouch.org/about-tory daily 0.75 2023-01-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628e64ce5dc25a4b2dcea203/cccc11e6-5e1a-45b1-9336-a0682665c370/vicki+049.jpg About Tory https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/628e64ce5dc25a4b2dcea203/03feb2bb-c75d-4bc6-9fcf-3d8f6183fa4d/vicki+quilt+010+%283%29.jpg About Tory In 1989, after a routine blood test, Tory discovered she was HIV- positive. At the time, HIV and AIDS were deeply misunderstood, feared, and stigmatized. Treatments were few and survival was rare. Tory never considered being sidelined by AIDS. Instead she used her illness to teach, inform, and inspire. At the last class she was able to teach at Barat College, she announced to the assembled class of young dancers that the reason she seemed weak and had difficulty walking, was that she had AIDS. She spent the rest of the class personally discussing the disease, what she’d learned about it, and how she was coping. Tory passed away in 1994, about a year before the first appearance of HIV drug “cocktails.” The cocktails (customized combinations of antiretroviral drugs) have changed HIV and AIDS from a disease with an almost certain death sentence, to a livable condition for thousands of people who carry the virus. Dancers never show they’re in pain, and Tory never showed anything less than dignity and grace in the face of this ravaging disease. At her funeral, Robert King wrote: “I am honored to have been touched by this brave and remarkable woman. Her afterglow is vivid and pervasive. She will, however, be terribly missed.” https://www.thetorytouch.org/photos-1 daily 0.75 2022-06-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1589847728111-0R6F2UAVNFOZV0X72E1W/20140301_Trade-151_0124-copy.jpg Photos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1589847727735-YAS9X6TJRA7J13G5BXQ4/20140228_Trade+151_0046.jpg Photos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1589847726907-424FGLTKCC1T83UE9DJD/Aro%2BHa_0428.jpg Photos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1589847726655-19TO7TR8MSLUNXDG4EL8/Large+JPG-Aro+Ha_0010.jpg Photos https://www.thetorytouch.org/make-a-donation daily 0.75 2025-05-12