TV Pick for Tonight: San Francisco's Year Zero: We Were Here

2011 marked 30 years since the beginning of the AIDS crisis. In 1981, the flourishing gay community in San Franscisco was hit with an unimaginable disaster which led to not only increased homophobia and prejudice, but the death of loved ones at a terrifying rate.

Through the eyes of those whose lives changed in unimaginable ways, tonight's documentary San Francisco's Year Zero: We Were Here tells how the beloved city of San Francisco was transformed from a hotbed of sexual freedom and social experimentation into the epicentre of a terrible sexually transmitted disease which became known as the 'gay plague'.

Caregivers, activists, researchers, friends and lovers of suffers, as well as people who are currently living with AIDS themselves, share their intensely personal stories in a documentary which shows the incredible power of a community coming together with love, compassion and determination.

San Francisco's Year Zero: We Were Here airs tonight on BBC4 at 10pm.