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The book shows how activism was accomplished in a now-seemingly distant analog age of fax machines and phone trees. While there were deaths, there was also a vibrant tribal connection. The book gives names and stories to what seems a monolithic, but r... Read More
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The arts focus culminated in the 650000 raised at the first art auction where the famous mingled with the foot soldiers
One of the latter yet most dramatic of protests held in october 1992 under the bush administration the ashes action with the cr... Read More
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I was involved in the early days but did not understand how it all fit together
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The book by randy shilts and the band played on politics people and the aids epidemic was published in 1987
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It was an important book at the time and in retrospect got some things very wrong for example the idea that there was a patient zero a frenchcanadian flight attendant
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Other books and documentaries i have watched about actup tend to focus on mostly white gay men and show the sitins and protests in the streets
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It was impossible to read through this book in one sitting you really need to take the time to read each chapter carefully and make notes which will be illuminated later
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Not sure why this is called a “political history” though as the book is incredibly personal and mostly an oral history
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To the point where the author leaves quite unclear how major actions by act up even went down
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I cant comprehend what sarah schulman has lived through to be able to write let the record show
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