#act up

[whatevergreen]

The Die In... Demonstrators from the organization ACT UP protest in front of the headquarters of the Food and Drug Administration. The FDA opened up access to experimental drugs soon after. c1989 - J. Scott Applewhite

#protest #lgbtq #act up #die in

[commiepinkofag]

Outrage! sticker, 1991

#cool #outrage #queer nation #act up #queer history #sticker #activism #paragraph 16 #section 28 #homophobia #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbqti #1991 #1990s #90s

[your-resident-boat-person]

I need everyone who sees this post to do me a favor. If you are in any way, shape or form a member of the LBGTQIA+ community, know someone who is a member of the community, or are an ally in some way, watch a documentary called "How to Survive a Plague". It's about the aids crisis. It will be one of the most important things you've ever watched.

In college, I had a Queer Theory class, and one of the first things we did was watch this. I was 21 years old at the time. At the time, I was just bisexual, but now I'm also trans. I was SHOCKED that as a member of the community, I had never known how bad it was. If you got diagnosed, you had 2 years to live. That's it. People were in the streets fighting and protesting and LITERALLY using their bodies as weapons. The government ignored the aids crisis on purpose. They were trying to kill us. First, Reagan, then Bush. People think I'm exaggerating when I say it was like a fucking war. If the documentary got their numbers right, and I'm remembering correctly, by 1996, 8 MILLION PEOPLE died from aids. People were dropping left and right. The people that made it have fucking survivors guilt. By the time the documentary came out, an estimated 6 million lives had been saved thanks to the medicine that WE fought for. Someone in the documentary says that he thinks that THAT medicine is the single greatest accomplishment our community can lay claim to, and I'm inclined to agree. This may be wishful thinking, but I think this documentary may be able to knock the exclusionism out of anyone who watches it. These were our brothers and sisters out there, literally dying for this cause. One of my favorite protests that they showed was people lined up outside the White House lawn, dumping the ashes of their loved ones who had died of aids all over the White House lawn. Seeing these frail old women out there who had lost their sons and daughters fighting on the front lines with us makes me violently sob every time I watch this documentary. These grieving mothers were standing with us. The pointless bickering and infighting I see in the community today sickens me. It is important to me that we all know what we fought for. It is important to me that we know how much we lost. It is important to me that we know how hard we fought.

Again, it's called called "How to Survive a Plague". It's on tons of streaming services, many of which are free, and there are "other ways" you can watch it if you catch my drift. I watched it here on Pluto TV, completely free:

It's also available on Tubi, AMC+, PLEX, YouTube, Sling TV, and Amazon prime video.

#lgbtq #lgbtqia #lgbtq community #lgbt #lgbt+ #lgbtqiia+ #trans #transgender #gay #lesbian #bisexual #asexual #aromantic #queer #aids #hiv #how to survive a Plague #act up

[byler-alarmist]

I was inspired by a great post about Nancy from @luthientinuvielss and it got me thinking about AIDS Activist Nancy Wheeler.

I've mentioned before how I headcanon Byler attending protests/joining ACT UP in the 90's after they get out of Hawkins.

But what if Nancy also became an activist in her own way?

As the post succinctly put it, Nancy is a truth-seeker who stands against injustice. She strives to be an advocate for the voiceless, the powerless and marginalized because she knows what it's like to be unheard.

I can't imagine that she would see all the deaths in the gay community (her brother and Will's community, in fact) being dismissed and forgotten and remain unfazed. She would be furious!!

Imagine her getting the scoop on the latest facts and myths about the disease, determined to shed light on the epidemic.

Interviewing the medical community and patients, breaking down the stigma surrounding the disease.

Investigating and doing exposés on politicians that stonewalled efforts to find a cure.

I can totally see her getting behind a cause like that. Plus, it could rebuild the Wheeler sibling bond, since she and Mike could find common ground on their shared passion for justice.

#do you see the vision #i feel it'd be so in character for her #especially after mike comes out to her and she learns more about the gay community #and robin #nancy wheeler headcanons #nancy wheeler hc #nancy wheeler #wheeler siblings #nancy wheeler analysis #st headcanons #st hc #stranger things hc #act up #aids epidemic #90's nancy wheeler #90's byler #queer mike wheeler #gay will byers #st headcanon #stranger things hcs #st brainrot #byler #byler headcanons #byler headcanon #stranger things #byler tumblr

[genderoutlaws]

KISSING DOESN’T KILL: GREED AND INDIFFERENCE DO

“Gran Fury, a collective of artists and designers dedicated to promoting AIDS/HIV awareness, produced many inventive and thought-provoking posters. AIDS activists had used the strategy of the 'Kiss-In' - large public demonstrations of affection by gay and straight people - to undermine complacency and conservative commentators alike. This 1989 advertisement, designed for display on public transport in New York City and San Francisco, ridicules small-mindedness as well as reminding the authorities of their responsibilities in combating AIDS.”

#op #photography #posters #ephemera #hiv aids #1980s #1989 #gran fury #act up #couples

[samwisethewitch]

Something I do grieve a little bit, especially as I study queer history and connect deeper with queer ancestors, is that the LGBTQ+ community is now almost entirely online and/or only at big events like Pride. It feels like as queerness becomes most accepted in the mainstream (which is a good thing!!!) there are fewer and fewer physical spaces that are explicitly dedicated to supporting, protecting, and celebrating queer identities. And even when there are physical spaces set aside for us, fewer and fewer young queer people are choosing to engage them.

Like, I know intentional communities are more associated with leftism and environmentalism now, but that used to be the only real option for openly queer people. When it was legal for landlords to evict you and for employers to fire you because you were gay, or a lesbian, or transgender, banding together was the only way to survive. If someone owned property or benefited from generational wealth, they opened their home to people in the community who needed a place to stay. People who were able-bodied enough to work went to work (and a lot of them were sex workers, and that's an important part of our history). People who couldn't work helped out in whatever way they could, and a lot of queer political organization was done by disabled and mentally ill folks who were out of work, or who were working and organizing while being sick.

Queer people created parallel social structures when the mainstream system wouldn't let them participate. The queer community birthed its own spiritual leaders, its own healers, its own philosophers, its own bodyguards and protectors. If someone had a need, someone else probably had the skills or resources to help.

I think a lot of us have forgotten that there would have been no Stonewall, no GLF, no AIDS activism without those webs of community support and organization formed out of necessity. Stonewall happened because the queer community in Greenwich Village in the 1960s was united under oppression and already had the systems in place necessary for organizing. The reason we have gay rights now (such as they are) is because our queer elders chose to take care of each other. And it does make me deeply sad that we seem to have abandoned that tradition of community-building in the last couple of decades.

#and yes i do think not having these systems in place is going to come back to bite us #now that conservatives in the US are pushing to revoke civil rights for queer folks #queer history #lgbtq history #stonewall #gay liberation front #aids activism #act up #intentional community #my writing #mine #queer #lgbtq+

[rawdickulousreturn]

Beyond Loved Q’s runway look for the DragCon 1980 Look theme! In homage to her and her homage to gay icon Keith Haring & those affected & lost to AIDS, here are some more inspired runway looks

#keith haring #rupaul’s drag race season 16 #rupaul's drag race #drag #drag race season 16 #drag race meme #drag queen #drag race #drag queens #rpdr memes #rpdr season 16 #rpdr meme #rpdr 16 #rpdr #rpdr s16 #gay icons #gay fashion #drag fashion #act up #fight against aids #hiv awareness #aids awareness #aids activism #gay history #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #lgbt history #lgbtq history #lgbtqia history

[aleprouswitch]

Diamanda Galas with her brother, Philip-Dimitri, in 1980. Philip-Dimitri, a playwright, passed away due to AIDS-related complications in 1986. His death became the inspiration for a bulk of Diamanda’s work during the late 80s and early 90s (Most notably 1991′s Plague Mass), and it was also the catalyst behind her involvement with AIDS activist groups such as Act Up.

“Male journalists will say, ‘She did this work because her brother died, isn’t it wonderful?’, and I’ll say ‘Kiss my ass - it’s not wonderful. I am not a noble person, my brother wouldn’t want your journalistic sympathy, and not only that - he just called me from Hell the other day and told me he’s never been fucked so good in his life, so kiss my ass!’“

#diamanda galas #philip-dimitri galas #80s #my scans #avant garde #experimental music #no wave #industrial #gothgoth #act up

[transsexual-menace]

excerpt from the queer nation manifesto published by act up ny in june, 1990

#queer history #lgbt history #lgbtq history #lesbian history #gay history #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #lesbian #gay #aids crisis #act up

[profeminist]

Page 20, July 3rd 1981

#aids #lgbt history #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia+ #act up

[troutreznor]

Pride, NYC, mid '80s. My friend Jason, in the middle, with other members of Act Up.

photo & caption by Mariette Pathy Allen [website] [instagram]

#mariette pathy allen #act up #gay #gay pride #queer #nyc #aids #vintage photography #aids history #queer history

[commiepinkofag]

state by state our civil rights & basic human rights are stripped away.

the federal government enables, codifies & otherwise remains silent.

silence = death

no one should think they can coast through an election.

resistance without representation.

we are criminals after all.

#be gay do crime #queer riots #queer power #stonewall #act up #queer nation #lgbtq #lgbt #lgbtqia #lgbqti #queer #trans #protest #riot #human rights #healthcare #queer history #us government #us politics #2024

[tobydammit68]

Silence = Death (1990) Dir. Rosa von Praunheim

#silence = death #silence=death #silence equals death #act up #rosa von praunheim #david wojnarowicz #keith haring #allen ginsberg #film #films #movie #movies #queer #queer history #queer cinema #lgbt history #lgbt cinema #edit #aids

[whatevergreen]

ACT UP Paris protesters on the Champs-Elysées in Paris, France, December 1, 1994. AP Photo/Laurent Rebours

ACT UP protester Kendall Morrison in New York City in 1989. Chester Higgins Jr.

ACT UP’s first demonstration, known as the Wall Street march, March 24, 1987 - protesters being arrested at nearby Trinity Church - John Sotomayor

1997 ACT UP poster condemning drug companies, congress and Clinton.

1980s-90s ACT UP protests.

If protests aren't at least disruptive, they are meaningless.

#protests #pride month #pride #lgbtq #aids #act up

[popgodz]

#jimmy somerville #bronski beat #act up #the communards

[kaliarda]

Τετάρτη 17 Φεβρουαρίου 1993 στην αίθουσα Ανταποκριτών Ξένου Τύπου, η Νταίζη Γαλιατσάτου και ο Γρηγόρης Βαλλιανάτος παρουσιάζουν τους στόχους της νεοϊδρυθείσας ACT UP.

«Οι φορείς του AIDS κι εμείς είμαστε αδέλφια και η προσπάθεια για τον καθένα πρέπει ν’αρχίσει τώρα» δηλώνει η Μελίνα Μερκούρη και καλεί να βοηθήσουμε την ομάδα της ACT UP.

Πολιτικό Αρχείο για το HIV/AIDS

#πολιτικό αρχείο για το HIV/AIDS #ACT UP #greek queer history #λοατκι+ #γρηγόρης βαλλιανάτος #νταίζη γαλιατσάτου #μελίνα μερκούρη