City Hall

No one except the gay community itself

Gay activists in other cities in the US

The federal government

In the late 1980s

In the early 1990s

In the late 1990s

In the early 1980s

to be educated about safe sex

to be more cautious

to avoid the Castro

to remember what happened

They were HIV positive

They had survived the AIDS epidemic

They knew the gay activist Harvey Milk

They were straight or bisexual

The San Francisco Chronicle

The San Francisco Bay View

The San Francisco Examiner

The Bay Area Reporter

25000

30000

20000

35000

To understand what happened and testify

To fight homophobia

To accuse the government because of their lack of reaction

To know the truth about the origin of the epidemic

Haight Ashbury

Fisherman's Wharf

Mission district

The Castro

5

4

6

3

Thanks to awareness campaigns

Through education

The epidemic is not under control yet

Thanks to drugs