Paul Michael Glaser Theatre. He guest starred in an episode of CBS's "The Mentalist" on October 1, 2009 titled "The Scarlet Letter". In 2013, Glaser revisited "Fiddler on the Roof" in a UK stage production on national tour, this time playing the lead character Tevye. In addition to television, film, and theater, Glaser is an avid photographer, writes poetry and is currently working on several children's novels. Glaser has been married twice. He married his first wife, Elizabeth Meyer, in 1980. In August 1981, Meyer contracted HIV through a blood transfusion while giving birth to the couple's first child, Ariel. Meyer did not
Elizabeth Glaser alone on each of them. Elizabeth Glaser's son, Jake, is now an adult who often speaks publicly on behalf of AIDS patients. He remains relatively healthy due to a mutation of the CCR5 gene that protects his white blood cells. Elizabeth Glaser Elizabeth Glaser (Born Elizabeth Meyer; – ) was a major American AIDS activist and child advocate married to actor and director Paul Michael Glaser. She contracted HIV very early in the modern AIDS epidemic after receiving an HIV-contaminated blood transfusion in 1981 while giving birth. Like other HIV-infected mothers, Glaser unknowingly passed the virus to her infant daughter,