rawdale but also in light of that, you also are balanced and you paint a wonderful picture of george masconi, the idealist and a very good relationship with harvey milk and the city recovering after that the assassination of both milk and masconi and having gone through one of the toughest decades imagined and working its way out. >> this is, to me, the birth of what we know today as san francisco values, the values that drive fox news crazy and progressives get very excited. these are the values of tolerance, openness to change of a shared sense of humanity and i think in the early 'yates the city had the ultimate test with the aids epidemic. the city could have been pushed back to the brink of chaos. you know, around the country, people around president reagan jerry fallwell were using aids to demoneyes the gay community but here in san francisco under the leadership of mayor dianne feinstein, the city took a more compassionate approach. she was a daughter of a physician, been married to a physician. she knew what medical protocol was all about. she went to the aids ward in san francisco,