Inside and outside of his job as a behavioral health clinician at San Francisco General Hospital’s HIV care clinic, Alberto Rangel approached life with optimism — and trust that even the most uncertain moments would work out.
The 51-year-old San Franciscan rarely turned down an adventure. Accepting last-minute concert tickets and rushing to Chase Center in the dark on his bike. Moving to San Francisco in the early 1990s with no firm plans of where he’d sleep that night or the next. Taking a two-week trip to Sydney to see a man he’d met only once but had a special feeling about, who would become his husband of more than 20 years.
“It’s like a child jumping into a pool,” said Stuart Moulder, Rangel’s husband. “They don’t know if they’re getting into the deep end or the shallow end. They don’t know if they can swim. But he trusted the universe, and the universe answered back to him.”…