Life-story interviews with thirty PWAs tell of events between 1968 to 1995, including the 1970s migration to San Francisco, the election of America's first openly gay official, his assassination, the onset of a disease, and its impact on a city. Shepard, a social worker moonlighting as a social historian, spent two years working graveyard shifts as a counselor at one of San Francisco's largest AIDS housing programs. Distributed in the US by Books International. Paper edition (70126-2), $18.95. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
