American filmmaker Peter Adair was BOTD in 1943. Born in Los Angeles, he grew up in New Mexico. He gained critical attention with his 1967 documentary Holy Ghost People, chronicling Pentecostal snake handlers in Appalachia. After coming out as gay, he and his lesbian sister Nancy co-produced and directws the documentary Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives. Released in 1977, it was pioneering in its positive presentation of gay and lesbian people. A companion book, co-written by the Adair siblings and their mother Casey, was published in 1978. His other work including Stopping History, a documentary critique of the use of nuclear weapons, and assisting Rob Epstein on the 1984 Oscar-winning documentary The Times of Harvey Milk. During the 1980s, his focus shifted to the devastation caused by the HIV/AIDS epidemic, co-directing The AIDS Show: Artists Involved in Death and Survival and Absolutely Positive, chronicling people living with asymptomatic HIV. In 1996, he received the Frameline Award for his contribution to LGBT representation in film. He died later that year of an AIDS-related illness, aged 52, survived by his life partner Rudy Norton. In 2022 he was posthumously inducted into the San Francisco Rainbow Honor Walk.