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Sean Franklin Sasser (October 25, 1968 – August 7, 2013) was an American educator, activist, pastry chef, and reality television personality best known for his appearances on MTV's The Real World: San Francisco, which depicted his relationship with fellow AIDS activist Pedro Zamora. Although not one of the original cast members himself ...
Pedro Pablo Zamora (born Pedro Pablo Zamora y Díaz, February 29, 1972 – November 11, 1994) was a Cuban-American AIDS educator and television personality. [1] [2] As one of the first openly gay men with AIDS to be portrayed in popular media, [3] Zamora brought international attention to HIV/AIDS and LGBTQ issues and prejudices through his appearance on MTV's reality television series The ...
Robert Boyle "Bobbi" Campbell Jr. (January 28, 1952 – August 15, 1984) [1] was a public health nurse and an early United States AIDS activist.In September 1981, Campbell became the 16th person in San Francisco to be diagnosed with Kaposi's sarcoma, [2] when that was a proxy for an AIDS diagnosis. [3]
American AIDS activist, author and singer–songwriter. In 1983 he testified before the President's Commission on AIDS and before both houses of the United States Congress. With Joseph Sonnabend, he was co-founder of PWA Health Group and Community Research Initiative (now ACRIA) [59] [60] [61] Bobbi Campbell (1952–1984)
The Shanti Project is a non-profit human services agency based in San Francisco and founded in 1974 by Dr. Charles Garfield in Berkeley, CA. [1] Its goals are to provide peer support and guidance to people affected by HIV/AIDS, cancer, and other life-threatening conditions.
The San Francisco model of AIDS care began in 1983 in wards 86 and 5B of San Francisco General Hospital. The focus of this model was not only on the health of each patient with AIDS, but also on the well-being of each person. As AIDS was beginning to be treated as a significant epidemic, San Francisco General Hospital recognized the need to ...
The San Francisco Cannabis Buyers Club was founded by Dennis Peron in 1991. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Peron began operating it out of his apartment on Sanchez Street in October of that year. Fred Gardner notes that "Dennis had three quarters of a pound, which he said he would provide to people who needed it for medical reasons —and free to those who couldn ...
In 1987 the group had opened the Maitri Hospice for those dying of AIDS, [1] to which Dorsey himself succumbed in 1990. It was the first Buddhist hospice of its kind in the United States. For a time the center leased a building next door to house the sick, eventually offering nine hospice-beds for persons in extremis. The second Abbot was Kijun ...