In late 1980, Kevin Usher was out at Ramrod, a gay bar in the West Village in NYC, when a homophobe began shooting into the bar. When the violence subsided and Kevin was safely out of harm’s way, he was faced with a choice: stay home out of fear or get back out and live life on his terms. He ultimately chose the latter – a lesson he would take into the following year with the onset of the AIDS epidemic.
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