The City of Vancouver gave AIDS Vancouver initial funding of $50,000 in 1987 to open an office and hire staff to write Canada’s first support programs for people with HIV and AIDS.
People were dying,” said former board member Alan Herbert in a decade-old YouTube video posted by the non-profit.
The intent was to limit the number of bars under any one ownership,” said Price.
Herbert had a “love of the city and place, and particularly the meaning of Davie Street and the village and the West End as a gay community.
“It’s a reminder that these people do these really, really great things, but they’re still really human and all of those other things happen.
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