'She was out there and fighting for equal rights and social justice all the time during the AIDS crisis,' said Andrea Aiello, Castro Business District executive director.
"When HIV hit in the 1980s, a lot of political leaders ran for the hills," Wiener said. "San Francisco, under Dianne Feinstein leadership, literally created the model on how to fight HIV/AIDS -- a model that has been replicated throughout the world.
""In the early-to-late 1980s, there was a lotto of debate on how to best fight HIV and our Department of Public Health did decide to close the bathhouses. That was a terrible mistake," Wiener said."Dianne Feinstein listened and made that commitment. Many lives were saved as a result," Wiener said. "She was there for our community. She's going to be deeply missed.
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