*A faint glimmer of understanding begins to glow above his head*
Ahhh, you didn't know!?!?!? Yes, right in the heart of the city, in the Marina District. That is between Fisherman's Wharf and the Golden Gate Bridge, a most spectacular neighborhood. It most definitely explains much about me :)
I knew about AIDS long before the rest of the country since all of a sudden, all our male teachers and priests in high school started dying... They said "cancer" and things like that, but even we innocent school girls knew it was something else. Very sad because these were good people but they had chosen that lifestyle.