I’m not even sure how I came across this webpage a while back but like you said it made me have such a deep respect for Dianne Feinstein!! There were so many people in power who could’ve done so much more & many just choose to chose to ignore it or worse, point to it as some kind of punishment from a mythical deity!🤬
FROM ARTICLE:
“Mayor Feinstein had a long association with SFGH; her father, Leon Goldman, was a UCSF surgeon, and his contributions to SFGH are honored by a plaque at the hospital. I had known Dianne when I worked for the Democratic Party before medical school, and I contacted her early in the epidemic and set up a meeting with her, Merle, Paul, and one of her aides who lived in the Castro. Mayor Feinstein threw the weight of her office behind the SFGH’s activities, raising funds at the local, state, and national level. She also helped educate mayors from other cities about the growing epidemic. And she approved closing the gay bathhouses to help stop the spread of HIV. Unlike other politicians, Dianne never thought that HIV/AIDS was a result of bad behavior but rather a public health emergency.”
FROM CLOSING PARAGRAPH:
“Seven years ago, the SFGH Foundation started an annual Heroes and Hearts event at which fiberglass hearts decorated by local artists are auctioned off to raise money for hospital programs, including those dealing with HIV/AIDS. At the first event, Dianne Feinstein, now the senior senator for California, bought a heart that now sits in front of her home, and others can be seen around town. The one in front of SFGH was inscribed by an artist with the words “Mi Hermano, Mi Corazón” in honor of her brother, whose life was saved at the hospital. The heart is a reminder of the spirit of compassion, inclusiveness, multiculturalism, and perhaps a bit of zaniness that has been called “the San Francisco approach to HIV/AIDS.” I believe that this big-hearted approach could only have happened in our unique city, and that San Francisco deserves much of the credit for what we accomplished in combating the strange new disease.”
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210826374#post20
There is no telling how dark things are about to get with The Federalist Society/Christian NUT JOBS making ALL OF TRUMP’S JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS INCLUDING TO THE SCOTUS & there is NOTHING AT ALL we can do to stop it! Add to that millions & millions going into school voucher programs that will will lead to generations of kids being programmed (kinda like the Hitler Youth)to hate everything about America that makes it a great country & their minds will be so ruined Conservative Media will own their thinking from day one! Nothing will be done about climate change either. Of course the list goes on & on...
I’ve always managed to stay positive but I knew in the back of my head how fragile things are & now I fear for the future.
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