[2] In 1981 he moved to San Francisco with Tim Isbell, his boyfriend at the time, and began working as an X-ray technician at the University of California Medical Center.
I got it because I didn’t have the information.The same year that Williams and Isbell moved to San Francisco, the first cases of what would later be recognized as AIDS were showing up in gay men living in large cities.
[8] Williams would work to fill this gap in services, making AIDS outreach and education for gay and bisexual men of color the focus of much of the rest of his life.
[3] In 1988 Williams, along with other board members of NABWMT, submitted a proposal to the Centers for Disease Control's (CDC) National AIDS Information and Education Program.
In 1989, as executive director of NTFAP, Williams submitted a funding request to Northern California Grantmakers to support a new project that would address AIDS education for gay and bisexual men in San Francisco's different communities of color.
In addition to Williams, early leaders in GMOCC included Rodrigo Reyes of CURAS, Douglas Yaranon and Steve Lew of G-CHP, and Phill Tingley of AIAI.
As a result, the group launched the Campaign for Fairness to demand more funding for AIDS education and services aimed at gay and bisexual men of color.
Williams himself testified before a congressional subcommittee in July 1992, where he argued that gay and bisexual men of color should have a greater role in shaping AIDS policy.
[10] The following year, in 1993, the CDC mandated that local, state, and territorial health departments involve members of communities affected by HIV/AIDS in deciding how federal AIDS funding should be used, opening the door for the kind of change that Williams had demanded.
[3] After leaving NTFAP, Williams moved to the Netherlands to be with his new partner, Wolfgang Schreiber, and to escape the discrimination that he continued to face as a man living with HIV in the United States.