Episode

Ep. 257: San Francisco in the 70s, Harvey Milk & Surviving AIDS — Chuck Forrester's Story

Podcast: Everything & Anything...and a bit gay Podcast
Published: Jul 5, 2026
Duration seconds: 1997
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Summary

Chuck Forrester came out at 28 and moved straight to San Francisco in the 1970s — where he found Harvey Milk, the AIDS crisis, and a community that built itself from scratch. In this episode, Chuck shares what it felt like to be free for the first time, how his generation survived the epidemic through sheer community power, and why he wrote his book Bonding in the Time of Plague as a tribute to the gay men who made him who he is. A conversation about queer history, activism, chosen family, and telling the whole truth.