We Were Here is a superb oral history from the peak years of the AIDS crisis in San Francisco, which at one point was killing over 1,400 people annually. Director and producer David Weissman has created a powerful testimonial to an era that is starting to fade from the memories of some members of the queer community; as subject Ed Wolf pointed out in a discussion about his younger partner, we are entering an era where growing numbers of people were born after the epidemic began to be brought under control, when AIDS shifted from a life sentence to a chronic, but manageable, illness for people in the developed world.

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