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Brian Weil (1954–1996) was a photographer, activist and writer most well known for his work on the AIDS epidemic and founding the Needle Exchange program in the Bronx. [2] Art critic Roberta Smith wrote his New York Times obituary. The headline referred to him as the “Photographer Who Founded Needle Exchange.”
Robert Rygor was an Irish-European-American gay or homosexual cisgender rights activist from the late 1970s through to the mid-1990s. He became an advocate for Human Immunodeficency Virus and Acquired Immunodeficency Syndrome (HIV-AIDS) [1] victims shortly after the deadly disease became widespread among many sexually active gay men and drug users in the early 1980s.
The tombstone, revolver and grim reaper imagery of the 1980s and early 1990s have cast a long shadow. AIDS: homophobic and moralistic images of 1980s still haunt our view of HIV – that must ...
The AIDS Video Movement consisted of several different video and filmmakers. Tom Kalin was an American AIDS activist and director who made at least eight videos directly focusing on the AIDS epidemic, yet he has stated that all of his works are somewhat affected by the AIDS crisis. Kalin's works express his own personal responses to the ...
Keith Allen Haring (May 4, 1958 – February 16, 1990) was an American artist whose pop art emerged from the New York City graffiti subculture of the 1980s. [1] His animated imagery has "become a widely recognized visual language". [2]
David Michael Wojnarowicz (/ ˌ v ɔɪ n ə ˈ r oʊ v ɪ tʃ / VOY-nə-ROH-vitch; [1] September 14, 1954 – July 22, 1992) was an American painter, photographer, writer, filmmaker, performance artist, songwriter/recording artist, and AIDS activist prominent in the East Village art scene. [2]
This graphic was one of many created by Gran Fury in response to the lack of awareness regarding the AIDS pandemic. Emerging from ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) in 1988, Gran Fury was an AIDS activist artist collective from New York City consisting of 11 members including: Richard Elovich, Avram Finkelstein, Amy Heard, Tom Kalin, John Lindell, Loring McAlpin, Marlene McCarty, Donald ...
In the documentary he talks about the idea behind the AIDS Memorial Quilt, as well as the activism of San Francisco citizens in the 1970s and '80s to help people affected by AIDS and to figure out what the disease was. The film also looks at the impact HIV/AIDS is having in communities of color, and the young.