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"For meeting the challenge of the AIDS epidemic and its crisis of conscience with vigilant acts of political and cultural provocation
– thereby giving voice to the essential creative will of our humanity."
. _{from
the Dance Theater Workshop Award} _{September
15, 1988} .

AIDS
IS A
POLITICAL
CRISIS

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since 1987

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ACT UP is a diverse, non-partisan group of individuals united in anger
and committed to direct action to end the AIDS crisis.

We advise and inform. We demonstrate.
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a few classics from our archives

Charles Clifton 1959 – 2004

Honoring the life of Jeff Palmer October 3rd, 2005

by David Wojnarowicz

AIDS ACTIVIST VIDEO PRESERVATION PROJECT
ARCHIVED AT THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY

VIDEO DOCUMENTARY (2002)
"FIGHT BACK, FIGHT AIDS: 15 YEARS OF ACT UP"
< now streaming online

"Living with AIDS in this country is like living through a war
that's happening only for those people in the trenches.
.
"Every time a shell explodes you look around .
to discover that you've lost more of your friends.
But nobody else notices, it isn't happening to them."
_ _{VITO
RUSSO}

For the Record

Vice Presidential Debates October 5th, 2004

"Black women in America between the ages of 25 and 44 are 13 times more
likely to die of AIDS than their counterparts"

"I have not heard those numbers with respect to African-American women.
I was not aware that it was -- that they're in epidemic," replied Cheney.
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new
provocation
gay pride
2005

reconstructed

Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. perpetuated the myth that AIDS can be spread
by casual contact when he counseled President Ronald Reagan READ MORE

Flashback 1987

41,027 Americans are dead, and

71,176 Americans are diagnosed w/ AIDS

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After years of negligent silence, President Ronald Reagan finally uses the word "AIDS" in public. He sided with his Education Secretary William Bennett and other conservatives who said the Government should not provide sex education information.

On April 2, 1987, Reagan said: "How that information is used must be up to schools and parents, not government. But let's be honest with ourselves, AIDS information can not be what some call 'value neutral.' After all, when it comes to preventing AIDS, don't medicine and morality teach the same lessons."

read more reagan postmortem

harsh remembrance

The legacy of this Pope is of a man who
watched millions die from AIDS while actively
preventing access to condoms which
could have saved their lives.

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Gran Fury Poster

"I was flying into China in 1988 and I picked up the visa application and it says if you have tested positive for the 'humano-immuno-deficiency' virus, don't get off the airplane, you'll be held and turned around at the airport; now China is not a good example because it's a cruel, communist dictatorship...."

–(former) Republican Congressman Dornan

The United States HIV Ban on Travel and Immigration
laws protecting Amerika's ever-paranoid xenophobia.

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