A Clippings Scrapbook: Peta Church, Therese Frare, the Shot that Defined the AIDS Crisis, and the Two Spirit Healer Who Let the World In 

In November 1990, LIFE Magazine ran a now-legendary photograph of AIDS activist David Kirby’s last moments. Just out of frame was another eventual victim of AIDS, and the reason Therese was in the room at all; Peta, a two-spirit caretaker with their own story to tell.