We Were Here

we were here tells the story of how aids struck san francisco and its gay community from the late 1970s onward through the eyes of five people who were there to witness it firsthand. the film eschews the usual historical documentary format of interviewing multiple features interviews with a host of experts and well-known faces, instead focusing on extensive interviews with these five people. they take us through their personal recollections of san francisco in the mid-1970s onward, describing the height of the famous castro street gay community and then the sudden and mysterious rise in the... read more