Hyperallergic

ACT UP Returns to Wall Street With Occupy and Others on April 25

On April 25th, and in honor of its 25th anniversary, AIDS activist group ACT UP (The AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), joined by organizations ranging from Occupy Wall Street to Visual AIDS to ...
LGBTQ Nation

How AIDS activists revolutionized modern-day patients’ rights for everyone

In early March 1987, Larry Kramer, a co-founder of the Gay Men’s Health Crisis in New York City, stood up at a meeting at the Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center in Greenwich Village. By that ...
Hyperallergic

AIDS Advocacy Group ACT UP Joins Cultural Boycott of Israel

In a show of solidarity with Palestine, ACT UP activists transformed the grassroots organization's iconic pink triangle into a watermelon slice. (artwork by and courtesy Shawn Escarciga) On January 23 ...
The New York Times

In ‘Fight Back,’ the Audience Learns to Act Up

This immersive theater experiment enlists attendees to help recreate an AIDS activist meeting from 1989 as an exercise in empathy. By Laura Collins-Hughes On Monday evening at the Lesbian, Gay, ...
The Nation

Patient Rights Groups Are Learning the Wrong Lessons From ACT UP

These groups are invoking ACT UP’s legacy to push for further deregulation of the FDA. Here’s why they’re wrong. Ad Policy ACT UP protesters close the Federal Drug Administration building to demand ...
al.com

From ACT UP to now: How HIV care has changed, and how it hasn’t

Beginning with an HIV diagnosis in 1990, Ivy Arce’s story spun into over three decades of activism, now unyielding in her demand for a cure. “For me, a cure is not a project,” she said. “Without ...