The Revealer
The Revealer
The Center for Religion and Media at NYU
San Francisco’s “AIDS Church” and the 40th Anniversary of HIV/AIDS
31 minutes Posted May 26, 2021 at 9:11 pm.
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June 2021 marks forty years since the first identified cases of what came to be known as HIV/AIDS. In this episode we chat with Dr. Lynne Gerber about a predominantly gay church in San Francisco and how it responded to the AIDS epidemic. We discuss how that church and its minister helped a gay community devastated by sickness, death and constant funerals, and why knowing this history about the AIDS epidemic matters today.