![]() In a “raw display of power,” activists interrupted a Catholic service at St. 10, 1989, with WHAM! (Women’s Health Action and Mobilization). ![]() Days before ACT UP was formed he notoriously told a crowd, “In five years, half of you will be dead!” ACT UP’s “boldest act of broad leadership” was the Stop the Church campaign, waged on Dec. The organization’s strategy of confrontation was inspired by Kramer’s insistence on political agitation born of necessity. Founded in 1987 by novelist and playwright Larry Kramer, the New York chapter served as the “mothership” of what eventually became 148 chapters worldwide. Many of the volunteers saw themselves as warriors, some fighting for their lives by forcing governmental health institutes to care about them and stop delaying treatments. ![]() Though divisive, ACT UP’s in-your-face activism unquestionably improved life for subsequent generations of people with AIDS. ![]() The veteran author, screenwriter, and activist delivers a significant boots-on-the-ground account of the New York City chapter of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power. ![]()
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