Pride — Epilepsy — Blood — AIDS

Being at Family Service in Redlands in the 80s and 90s taught us all something.

It’s hard to remember some of the fears of those days. We huddled around a tiny portable black and white TV in the pantry to watch the first Gulf War.

AIDS was in the news; I didn’t need any extra information because my brother ended up dying of the disease in a prison halfway house, but most of my…