Carol Lynn Pearson lost her husband in the early days of the AIDS epidemic.
It was in the 1980's, before Rock Hudson's news-making AIDS diagnosis, when the illness was taking a deadly toll in the Bay Area and across the country.
At 82 years old, Carol Lynn Pearson remembers her late husband, his coming out and his coming home to die. She still lives in the Walnut Creek home she bought in the 1980's when her husband told her he had AIDS. Gerald and Carol Lynn met in 1965 at Mormon-owned Brigham Young University. He told her about his attractions to men, but the two believed in the promises of their faith that Gerald marrying Carol Lynn and raising a family would fix his sexuality.
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