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Podcast: The Bay
Episode: From AIDS to COVID-19, Gay Activists in San Francisco Have Been Organizing in Public Health for Decades
Description: Forty years after the AIDS epidemic, the COVID-19 pandemic threatens those most at risk in the LGBTQ community across the world. Community organizers in the Bay Area have been building on the work of people like Bobbi Campbell, a San Francisco nurse who became the first person to go public with a cancer associated with AIDS. His work to educate the other gay men in the city was the beginning of an activist-led campaign that helped protect the queer community from AIDS even before the federal government acknowledged the disease.Guest: Sarah Hotchkiss, KQED Arts’ Senior associate ed...