My first memory of R. Scott Hitt – the prominent AIDS doctor who passed away from colon cancer on Nov. 8 – was watching him work the room during a fundraiser for San Francisco District Attorney Arlo Smith. Scott Hitt’s house became ANGLE’s meeting place where the politicos from numerous backgrounds strategized about how to push the envelope. In 1991, in the middle of the push for the gay rights bill, ANGLE started interviewing Democratic presidential candidates. David Mixner writes extensively about this time in his book Stranger Among Friends. One of those candidates was the Arkansas governor and Mixner friend from the anti-Vietnam War days, Bill Clinton. After the ANGLE meeting Clinton told the Los Angeles Times that if he had been governor of California, he would have signed AB 101.
