As the AIDS epidemic took hold in the early 1980s selfhelp guru Louise Hay created a space for healing called the Hayride Drawing hundreds of gay men confronting a deadly and stigmatized disease Louise promised that they could overcome AIDS through selflove Some said this early new age wellness movement was unscientific and harmful Others who were suffering said that Louise healed them In the face of a deadly pandemic and government neglect resilience takes unusual forms and for Louise Hays circle intimate forms of reckoning were transformative
