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David Fair (born April 27, 1952) is an American activist who has been a leader in the labor, LGBT, AIDS, homeless and child advocacy movements in Philadelphia, PA since the 1970s.
Activists from this group started giving out syringes illegally as Prevention Point Philadelphia. [ 104 ] Housing Works , New York's largest AIDS service organization and Health GAP, which fights to expand treatment for people with AIDS throughout the world, are direct outgrowths of ACT UP.
Local activist groups came to Hart to make puppets, props and effigies for demonstrations and educational campaigns. Spiral Q's identity springs from this early work in Philadelphia's HIV/AIDS activist and queer communities, particularly with AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power .
Question: Larry Kramer founded which AIDS activist group? Answer: AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) Question: Who wrote Hedwig and the Angry Inch? ... 1965 in Philadelphia, PA.
Prevention Point Philadelphia was founded in 1991 based on acts of ACT UP [3] in response to the HIV & AIDS epidemic. At the time, it was illegal to possess syringes in Pennsylvania. [4] Under increasing pressure to respond to the growing epidemic, then Mayor Ed Rendell issued an executive authorizing distribution of syringes within the city. [4]
Philadelphia FIGHT, an organization dedicated to HIV/AIDS advocacy, had honored Casarez with the Kiyoshi Kuromiya Award in 2011 for her years of activism on behalf of disenfranchised Latinx LGBTQ youth. Following her death, FIGHT shared: "Gloria wasn’t just a policymaker and activist.
Peter Staley (born January 9, 1961) is an American political activist, known primarily for his work in HIV/AIDS activism.As an early and influential member of ACT UP, New York, he founded both the Treatment Action Group (TAG) and the educational website AIDSmeds.com. Staley is a primary figure in the Oscar-nominated documentary How to Survive a Plague.
Kiyoshi Kuromiya (Japanese: 黒宮 清, [1] May 9, 1943 – May 10, 2000) was a Japanese-American author and civil rights, anti-war, gay liberation, and HIV/AIDS activist. Born in Wyoming at the World War II–era Japanese American internment camp known as Heart Mountain, [2] Kuromiya became an aide to Martin Luther King Jr. and a prominent opponent of the Vietnam War during the 1960s.