Blog: YoungCreature

We Were Here (made by David Weissman & Bill Weber) is a really important, heavy & inspiring film about San Francisco and its queer community during the onset of the AIDS epidemic. I saw it tonight and got big knotty lumps in my throat as I listened to people tell their stories, and the story of their community and how it rose to/beyond the call of duty. How the lesbian community stepped in to nurse and care for their sick brothers, how a florist donated to people flowers so that they could bury their friends with beauty & respect. [...]