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Let the record show : a political history of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 / Sarah Schulman.
Author
Schulman, Sarah, 1958-
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Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
First edition.
Published/Created
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
©2021
Description
xxvii, 702 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Details
Subject(s)
ACT UP New York (Organization)
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History
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20th century
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AIDS (Disease)
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United States
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History
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20th century
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AIDS (Disease)
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Political aspects
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United States
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History
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Summary note
"In just six years, ACT UP, New York, a broad and unlikely coalition of activists from all races, genders, sexualities, and backgrounds, changed the world. Armed with rancor, desperation, intelligence, and creativity, it took on the AIDS crisis with an indefatigable, ingenious, and multifaceted attack on the corporations, institutions, governments, and individuals who stood in the way of AIDS treatment for all. They stormed the FDA and NIH in Washington, DC, and started needle exchange programs in New York; they took over Grand Central Terminal and fought to change the legal definition of AIDS to include women; they transformed the American insurance industry, weaponized art and advertising to push their agenda, and battled--and beat--The New York Times, the Catholic Church, and the pharmaceutical industry. Their activism, in its complex and intersectional power, transformed the lives of people with AIDS and the bigoted society that had abandoned them.
Based on more than two hundred interviews with ACT UP members and rich with lessons for today's activists, Let the Record Show is a revelatory exploration--and long-overdue reassessment--of the coalition's inner workings, conflicts, achievements, and ultimate fracture. Schulman, one of the most revered queer writers and thinkers of her generation, explores the how and the why, examining, with her characteristic rigor and bite, how a group of desperate outcasts changed America forever, and in the process created a livable future for generations of people across the world."-- Provided by publisher.
Notes
Includes index.
Contents
Introduction: How Change Is Made
Mechanisms of Power: Puerto Ricans in ACT UP
The First Treatment Activists
Choosing the Right Target: Seize Control of the FDA
Collective Leadership: Stop the Church
Inspiration and Influence: Larry Kramer, Maxine Wolfe, Mark Harrington
Treatment and Data #2: Citizen Scientists
Changing the Definition: Women Don't Get AIDS, We Just Die From It
Mother and Son: The Death of Ray Navarro, the Vision of Patricia Navarro
Harm Reduction as a Value, an Ideal, a Way of Life and Death: ACT UP's Campaign for Needle Exchange
The Artistic Life of Resistance
Strategic Images: Photography, Video, and Film
Getting and Creating Media
Community Research Initiative, Dr. Joseph Sonnabend, and the Battle over AZT
ACT UP and the Haitian Underground Railroad
Lawyers for the People
The Culture and Subculture of Civil Disobedience
Insurance Equals Access, and Without Access There is No Treatment
How the ACT UP Housing Committee Because Housing Works, Housing for Homeless People with AIDS
YELL: The Evolution of Queer Youth Politics
Funding ACT UP's Campaign
Storm the NIH Action at the National Institutes of Heath, Washington, D.C., May 21, 1990
The Dinner: December 1, 1990
Day of Desperation: January 23, 1991
Are Women "Vectors of Infection," or People with AIDS? Clinical Trial 076, April 1991
AIDS Hysteria: The Case of Derek Link
The Split: January 1992
Treatment and Data
Ashes Action: October 5, 1992
Political Funerals
Conclusion: The Myth of Resilience and the Enduring Relationship of AIDS
A Personal Conclusion
Appendix 1: ACT UP and the FBI
Appendix 2: Tell It to ACT UP
ACT UP New York Time Line
ACT UP Oral History Interviews
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ISBN
9780374185138 ((hardcover))
0374185131 ((hardcover))
LCCN
2020056721
OCLC
1182573401
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