00:00Se hai un'edito bus che ti sia un'edito di San Fransisco
00:03perché è stato il momento per arrivare.
00:06Cester Street è stato proprio a stagione.
00:09È stato proprio come la village che aveva sempre voluto.
00:12Penso che i nostri venivano venire qui perché non si riuscite dove siamo.
00:17Io like le persone qui, loro si sono più open.
00:20E io sempre volevo metter un buon surfer.
00:23All of America era molto confidente che sia più sessuale, e che era ok.
00:2981 was a big year everything changed i remember looking in the window of star pharmacy and there
00:35were these photographs watch out guys there's something out there the first time i heard about
00:40aids i think it was called the gay cancer we had friends who were dying right at the beginning of
00:45the epidemic i was in the hospital the infectious disease fellow came in and said eileen why don't
00:50you put gloves on we don't know what this is how are you getting it who are you getting it
00:56from
00:56who's giving it to who by the time we actually get the test close to 50 of the gay men
01:01of san francisco
01:01are already infected it was my generation that was being infected we were way too young to die
01:09i just thought god where are you look at what's happening it happened in this targeted community
01:18of people who were disenfranchised and a whole group of other people stepped up and became their family
01:26i remember my father saying these aren't family and i said yes they are it changed people's view
01:34of the gay community in a huge way how deeply are americans worried about aids 50 of americans favor
01:43quarantine for aids victims we were preoccupied with extraordinary civil rights attacks you could
01:49be tested without your consent people could be fired for being HIV positive you're ever facing a natural
01:54disaster as extraordinary as aids was you should be so lucky as to be in a community like the queer
01:59community of san francisco this is a community that was tested and succeeded in what it was trying
02:05to do which is save as many lives of people as it could and stop the civil rights attacks it
02:09was a
02:09response that america should be proud of none of my friends are around so i want to tell their story
02:19as much as i want to tell my story
02:21as much as i want to tell my story
02:22you
