World AIDS Day was observed Sunday, December 1, at the National AIDS Memorial Grove in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. Speakers during a panel at the grove's public program included, from left, Percy Vermut, a trans student at Carleton College in Minnesota; Vince Crisostomo, director of aging at the San Francisco AIDS Foundation and the recipient of the grove's Unsung Hero Award; Congressmember Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco); Kim Canady, an HIV-positive sexuality educator and HIV/AIDS advocate; Loren Broadbent, the father of the late Hydeia Broadbent, who was a trailblazer for the Dandelion community — those who've had HIV their entire lives; and Larkin Callaghan, Ph.D., head of global advocacy and community engagement, virology at Gilead Sciences, who moderated the panel.
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