A gay San Francisco man who once battled drug addiction himself will end his hunger strike outside City Hall Tuesday at 6 p.m.
following pledges by seven San Francisco supervisors to declare an emergency around the overdose crisis. Gary McCoy, 43, said his first night sleeping in a chair in front of San Francisco's City Hall August 1 was "a little chilly," and 25 hours into his hunger strike, he was feeling "not as bad as I would have thought at this point." "I'm staying hydrated, taking my meds, and keeping myself from the sun as much as possible," McCoy, who is HIV-positive, said August 2 around noon. "I had a really nice conversation with Supervisor [Rafael] Mandelman this morning.