Steve Peskind began practicing meditation in 1973. After teaching English in Japan, he pursued his two main interests - Buddhism and the work of Kubler Ross. He co-founded the "Coming Home Hospice", the Gay outreach at Shanti Project, and the Bay Area based "Buddhist AIDS Project." As a health educator he established the AIDS Response Program for Orange County and was the founding director of services (1985) for AIDS Service Foundation (ASF) in Costa Mesa, CA and Laguna Shanti in Laguna Beach, CA (1987). He died May 6, 2004 and was featured in the June 2004 GBF Newsletter.  Support the show______________ To participate live and be notified of upcoming speakers in advance, please Like us on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/gaybuddhistfellowship) or visit https://gaybuddhist.org/calendar/ To support our efforts to share these talks with LGBTQIA audiences worldwide, please visit www.GayBuddhist.org.There you can: * Donate * Learn how to participate live * Find our schedule of upcoming speakers * Join our mailing list or discussion forum * Enjoy many hundreds of these recorded talks dating back to 1996 CREDITSAudio Engineer: George HubbardProducer: Tom BrueinMusic/Logo/Artwork: Derek Lassiter