Going back to the early 1980s, when AIDS was still referred to ''The Gay Plague,'' the documentary We Were Here illuminates the profound personal and community issues raised by the onset of the AIDS epidemic. The film focuses on the broad political and social upheavals that were unleashed, and We Were Here offers a cathartic validation for the generation that suffered through, and responded to, the inception of AIDS. We Were Here opens a window of understanding to those who have only the vaguest notions of what transpired in those years, and the movie provides insight into what society could, and should, offer its citizens in the way of medical care, social services, and community support.
