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In the early 1990s, for example, public AIDS posters depicting same-sex couples were defaced by critics who claimed that the posters advocated a homosexual agenda.
In response AIDS activists—notably various chapters of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP)—staged numerous protests demanding improved AIDS services and education, especially from the city of Chicago itself.
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 ACT UP Philadelphia | AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power
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 The Body: ACT UP
ACT UP, the commonly used acronym for the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, is a grassroots AIDS organization associated with nonviolent civil disobedience.
ACT UP also demanded the creation and implementation of a federal needle-exchange program, called for a federally controlled and funded program of condom distribution at the local level, and asked for a serious sex education program in primary and secondary schools to be created and monitored by the federal Department of Education.
Since ACT UP's creation in 1987, AIDS activists had directed their anger toward perceived enemies, including the U.S. Congress and president, federal agencies, drug companies, the media, religious organizations, and homophobic politicians in positions of power at all levels of society.
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 Blog of Death: April 2004 Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: )
AIDS activist Keith Cylar died on April 5 of cardioarrhythmia.
He created the housing arm of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, and lobbied for the development of federal legislation to create and fund HIV/AIDS service programs.
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 ACT-UP-- History of Gay & Lesbian Life, Milwaukee WI- Organizations: Activist & Political
ACT_UP was the acronym for the "AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power".
In its initial years, AIDS infections were seen almost exclusively among the more promiscuous members of the gay community, and AIDS thus came to be widely referred to as the "gay plague".
ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) formed in New York in March 1987, following a speech by activist Larry Kramer calling for civil rights style demonstrations to protest the lack of government activity on AIDS.
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 ACT UP Research Info
We encourage further debate and scholarship on the AIDS crisis and direct action activism.
(AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power).The Advocate; March 26 1991, n573, p23(1).
"Power, Resistance, and the Construction of Crisis: Marginalized Communities Respond to AIDS." Dissertation, University of Michigan, 1993.
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