We were here

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David Weissman's We Were Here revisits the San Francisco of the 80s and 90s, using the city's experience with AIDS to open up a conversation about both the history of the epidemic and the lessons to be learned from it. Yet the film reaches far beyond San Francisco and beyond AIDS itself as it illuminates the power of a community that comes together with love, compassion, and determination. Indeed, The San Francisco Model - the LGBT community's courageous, multifaceted and creative response to AIDS - remains a standard to which to aspire in seeking a healthier, more humane society.