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"A coming-of-age memoir of life on the frontlines of the AIDS Crisis with ACT UP New York. From the moment Ron Goldberg stumbled into his first ACT UP meeting in June 1987, the AIDS activist organization became his life. For the next eight years, he chaired committees, planned protests, led teach-ins, and facilitated their Monday night meetings. He cruised and celebrated at ACT UP parties, attended far too many AIDS memorials, and participated in over a hundred zaps and demonstrations, becoming the group's unofficial "Chant Queen," writing and leading chants for many of their major actions. Boy with the Bullhorn is both a memoir and an immersive history of the original New York chapter of ACT UP, the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, from 1987 to 1995, told with great humor, heart, and insight. Using the author's own story, "the activist education of a well-intentioned, if somewhat naïve nice gay Jewish theater queen," Boy with the Bullhorn intertwines Goldberg's experiences with the larger chronological history of ACT UP, the grassroots AIDS activist organization that confronted politicians, scientists, drug companies, religious leaders, the media, and an often-uncaring public to successfully change the course of the AIDS epidemic. Diligently sourced and researched, Boy with the Bullhorn provides both an intimate look into how activist strategies are developed and deployed, as well as a snapshot of life in New York City during the darkest days of the AIDS epidemic. On the occasions where Goldberg writes outside his personal experience, he relies on his extensive archive of original ACT UP documents, news articles, and other published material, as well as activist videos and oral histories, to help flesh out actions, events, and the background stories of key activists. Writing with great candor, Goldberg examines the group's triumphs and failures, as well as the pressures and bad behaviors that eventually tore ACT UP apart. A story of ordinary people doing extraordinary things, from engaging in outrageous, media-savvy demonstrations, to navigating the intricacies of drug research and the byzantine bureaucracies of the FDA, NIH, and CDC, Boy with the Bullhorn captures the passion, smarts, and evanescent spirit of ACT UP-the anger, grief, and desperation, but also the joy, camaraderie, and sexy, campy playfulness-and the exhilarating adrenaline rush of activism"--
AIDS (Disease) --- AIDS activists --- Prevention. --- Goldberg, Ron --- ACT UP New York (Organization) --- History --- 1980s-1990s. --- ACT UP. --- AIDS. --- Activism. --- CDC. --- FDA. --- LGBTQ+. --- NIH. --- New York City. --- Silence = Death.
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Examining three interconnected case studies, Tamar Carroll powerfully demonstrates the ability of grassroots community activism to bridge racial and cultural differences and effect social change. Drawing on a rich array of oral histories, archival records, newspapers, films, and photographs, Carroll shows how poor people transformed the antipoverty organisation Mobilization for Youth and shaped the subsequent War on Poverty.
AIDS activists --- Feminism --- Economic assistance, Domestic --- Political activists --- Emancipation of women --- Feminist movement --- Women --- Women's lib --- Women's liberation --- Women's liberation movement --- Women's movement --- Social movements --- Anti-feminism --- Anti-poverty programs --- Government economic assistance --- Economic policy --- National service --- Grants-in-aid --- History --- Emancipation --- ACT UP New York (Organization) --- Aids Coalition to Unleash Power/New York --- ACT UP/NY --- HIV/AIDS activists
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La gentrification des esprits est un retour captivant sur la crise du sida et l’activisme d’ACT UP dans le New York des années 1980 et 1990. Sarah Schulman, elle-même new-yorkaise et militante de la cause LGBT, se souvient de la disparition du centre-ville, pratiquement du jour au lendemain, de la culture rebelle queer, des loyers à bas coût et du prolifique mouvement artistique qui se développait au coeur de Manhattan, remplacés par des porte-parole gays conservateurs, ainsi que par le consumérisme de masse. Elle décrit avec précision et engagement le « remplacement d’une communauté par une autre » et le processus de gentrification qui toucha ces quartiers concomitamment à la crise du sida. Sarah Schulman fait revivre pour nous le Lower East Side qu’elle a connu. Elle ravive autant le souvenir de ses ami•e•s de l’avant-garde queer que celui de l’ombre inquiétante des premières années de la crise du sida, telles que vécues par une militante. Les souvenirs personnels s’entremêlent à une analyse percutante des deux phénomènes, et du poids invisible qu’ils font aujourd’hui peser sur la société américaine. L’auteure rend compte de son expérience en tant que témoin de la « perte de l’imagination » de toute une génération, et des conséquences entraînées par cette perte.
Queer --- Mouvement artistique --- Homosexualité --- Communauté urbaine --- New york --- Culture homosexuelle --- Féminisme et lesbianisme --- Sida --- Embourgeoisement (urbanisme) --- Vie artistique --- Aspect social --- Act Up-New York --- Gay culture --- Lesbian feminism --- AIDS (Disease) --- Gentrification --- Social aspects --- ACT UP New York (Organization) --- New York (N.Y.) --- Intellectual life. --- Vie intellectuelle --- Urban renewal --- Urbanization --- Act Up-New York. --- AIDS (Disease) - Social aspects --- AIDS (Disease) - United States --- Gentrification - United States --- Urban renewal - United States --- Urbanization - United States --- Féminisme et lesbianisme
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The first critical biography of gay-rights activist Vito Russo.Celluloid Activistilluminates, through the life of this fascinating individual, some of the most explosive cultural revolutions in American history and significantly expands the fields of gay film studies, biography, and history.
Russo, Vito --- Homosexuality in motion pictures --- Gay activists --- Film historians --- Motion pictures --- Political activists --- Motion picture historians --- Historians --- History --- Russo, Vito. --- ACT UP New York (Organization) --- Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (New York, N.Y.) --- Aids Coalition to Unleash Power/New York --- ACT UP/NY --- Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (New York, N.Y.) --- GLAAD/New York --- Activists, Gay --- Gay rights activists --- Rights activists, Gay --- Sexual minority activists
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