In 1996, as AIDS ravaged San Francisco’s gay community, Metropolitan Community Church pastor Jim Mitulski risked imprisonment, dispensing marijuana to alleviate his sick congregants’ pain before it was legal. He did this in church, right...
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The Gay ’70s: “Sex, Drugs, and Disco”
- June 3, 2015
- Tagged as: 1970's, AIDS, Eric Jansen, gay, LGBT, Marilyn Pittman, Mark Abramson, memoir, San Francisco
Take a trip back to the ‘70s with San Francisco author Mark Abramson and host Marilyn Pittman. His memoir, “Sex, Drugs, and Disco” chronicles the story of gay men flooding into the Castro from all over the country…