| Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) (1 hr. 31 min. 14 sec.) ; 538301749 bytes |
| Summary |
*Adult Themes*We Were Here documents the coming of what was called the 'Gay Plague' in the early 1980s. The documentary focuses on 5 individuals - all of whom lived in San Francisco prior to the epidemic. Their lives changed in unimaginable ways when their beloved city changed from a hotbed of sexual freedom and social experimentation into the epicentre of a terrible sexually transmitted plague.From their different vantage points as caregivers, activists, researchers, as friends and lovers of the afflicted, and as people with AIDS themselves, the interviewees share stories which are not only intensely personal, but which also illuminate the much larger themes of that era: the political and sexual complexities, the terrible emotional toll, the role of women - particularly lesbians - in caring for and fighting for their gay brothers. Archival imagery conveys an unusually personal and elegiac sense of San Francisco in the pre-AIDS years, and a window into the compassionate and courageous community response to the suffering and loss that followed. And it also conveys in a very visceral sense the horrors of the disease itself.PRODUCTION DETAILS:Produced and directed by David Weissman. Editor/ co-director Bill Weber |
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Broadcast 2012-06-03 at 20:30:00 |
| Notes |
Classification: M |
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AIDS (Disease) -- Health aspects.
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AIDS (Disease) -- Patients.
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Sexually transmitted diseases -- Epidemiology.
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Sexually transmitted diseases -- Social aspects.
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Male homosexuality -- Psychological aspects.
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California -- San Francisco.
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Streaming video
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| Author |
Weissman, David, director
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Best, Kristy, host
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