We Were Here

00:00:07 - There was nothing extraordinary about the fact

00:03:42 "Come buy my flowers."

00:06:42 It's, like, it all felt familiar.

00:10:37 It was already pretty quickly falling into little cliques.

00:13:39 And they give very, very angry speeches.

00:17:20 With this, like, red splotch in his eye.

00:20:59 And probably myself and--

00:25:14 "Oh, my god..."

00:28:36 We held a series of town hall meetings

00:32:08 They were doing the study here at san francisco general

00:36:27 Because they went from like this to like this.

00:39:34 This is not the core definitions of the community

00:43:02 But in general they were sexually active gay men.

00:46:47 And the cocktail that was gonna kill him

00:50:55 It seemed like every day they were coming up with a new cure

00:55:49 With extraordinary civil rights attacks.

00:58:57 Everybody wanted to do something.

01:02:14 We should have a place that we could sell these things."

01:06:32 Like, "wow, how do you... how do you stop?

01:10:21 Tim was my partner during this time

01:14:00 "Silence equals death,"

01:17:25 - Some things seemed to be working.

01:21:03 But they still walk the earth.

01:24:58 I still have friends who are living with hiv.