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Artists and activists from the originating collective, and then later ACT UP have used posters and stickers of the image across New York City, then worldwide, during the worst times of the HIV/AIDS crisis in the 1980s. The image is now owned by ACT UP and members often wear it on t-shirts, buttons, and utilize it in various other types of media ...
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 ...
Mary Fisher (born April 6, 1948) is an American political activist, artist and author.After contracting HIV from her second husband, she has become an outspoken HIV/AIDS-activist for the prevention, education and for the compassionate treatment of people with HIV and AIDS.
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 San Diego Blood Sisters were a group who sponsored and organized lesbian blood drives during the AIDS epidemic.Established by members of the Women's Caucus of the San Diego Democratic Club, [1] the Blood Sisters sought to gather an adequate blood supply for AIDS patients, primarily gay men who often required many transfusions due to anemia. [2]
Hydeia Broadbent, a prominent HIV/AIDS activist who gained media attention for being a part of America’s “first generation of children born HIV positive” in the late 1980s, died Tuesday.
A protest installation by AIDS activist group ACT UP, which shows an empty quote from Ronald Reagan representing his perceived silence on AIDS.. Ronald Reagan, the President of the United States from 1981 to 1989, oversaw the United States response to the emergence of the HIV/AIDS crisis.
The late Joan Rivers is known as a pioneering woman in comedy, but she was also a pioneer in AIDS activism. The comedian was one of the first celebrities to lend her fame to the fight against AIDS ...