White Nights and Ascending Shadows: An Oral History of the San Francisco AIDS Epidemin
Across the world, people have created a movement to fight AIDS. San Francisco’s contribution to this fight grew out of the Gay Liberation Movement. The San Francisco AIDS story is a tale of how gay rights became human rights.Amazon.com Review
History not only moves quickly–it is, in essence, what happened yesterday–but it is also quickly forgotten. This is especially true when many of the people who made it are gone or dying. Benjamin Heim Shepard’s b… More >>
White Nights and Ascending Shadows: An Oral History of the San Francisco AIDS Epidemin
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