Ernest E. Cornish was born in Binghamton, NY on July 18, 1970. He was raised in and around the Binghamton area where he graduated from Whitney Point High School in 1990. At the age of 16, he began working for McDonald’s Corporate and stayed for several years before getting his bus license with Shortline. Cornish got married on May 26th, 1990 to his best friend, Lori. They later divorced each other in 1993. This caused Cornish to search for what he had been missing: true love and affection. After several therapists, he discovered that his true sexual orientation was homosexuality and that there was nothing wrong with him. While on the search for true happiness, he met a wonderful man named Sandy in Oneonta, NY and moved in with him. Later, Cornish joined the Red Cross where he became the Disaster Service Director. During one of his years there, several tornadoes blew through the county and left behind massive destruction in that area. As a result, this put his relationship and finances into a downward spiral.
Cornish relocated to Florida where he met Mike, the man of his dreams. Falling in love with Mike was the greatest thing in Cornish’s life, but sadly, Mike died at the age of thirty-four of Stage Four Melanoma. The most difficult thing Cornish had to do was to give Mike up to God.
In need of a new beginning, Cornish started working for the Walt Disney Company in Orlando. On July 18th, 2013, Cornish was reborn to HIV with a positive status. In 2014 and 2015, he dedicated all of his time toward finding political leaders in Washington DC who were willing to help join the fight against HIV and sit down and discuss the issue. After working at The Disney Company for eight years, Cornish decided to leave his career to pursue a Film degree at Full Sail University, an opportunity of a lifetime. Now he is working on a documentary that has become a passion of his. Shooting is slated for Spring 2017. His documentary, HIV Today: One Man’s Journey, is about one man’s story of living with HIV and the struggles of educating the world of its largely overlooked consequences in the U.S. Cornish’s main goals are to allow patients to have easier access to necessary medications and to fight for a prominent voice in D.C.
