Gay Activist Dan Cusick Memorial Tribute Video #1 of 4 Born in USA

This series of four Genuine G-Shots Tributes was prepared to honor the life and memory of adopted San Francisco’s “Angel of the Castro”. This is from someone who loved Dan very much: “Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many American consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.” ~~James Baldwin His loving sister Patti, at May 30th memorial service, talked about asking Dan to come back “home” to So. Cal., he told her that he was “home” here in San Francisco’s Castro District, and he was indeed surrounded by a lifetime of love at his beloved Castro Country Club. From Dan’s adopted “hometown” paper the Bay Area Reporter::www.aegis.org Bay Area Reporter – April 30, 2009 Liz Highleyman, [email protected] – Dan Cusick, a longtime AIDS activist and advocate for the recovery community, died Thursday, April 23, due to liver failure related to hepatitis C. He was 50. Mr. Cusick, who was on the liver transplant waiting list, died in hospice care at UCSF Parnassus Medical Center in the company of family and friends. “Dan was the ‘Angel of Castro Street,'” said fellow activist Matt Sharp. “He saved many, many people and made lives more bearable for the living because it was the right thing to do, not for himself. He’s one of those people it’s hard to imagine not being among the living and the fighting.” One of nine siblings, Mr. Cusick was born in 1959 and raised in Lakewood …