For its logo, the group adopted the pink triangle — which LGBTQ+ people, particularly gay men, had been forced to wear in Nazi Germany — and the words "Silence = Death." ACT UP soon protested on Wall ...

Members of ACT-UP/KC in the 1993 March on Washington for Lesbian, Gay, and Bi Equal Rights and Liberation in Washington, D.C. Kansas City Public Library What's Your KCQ is a collaboration between The ...

October marks LGBTQ History Month, and this week on At Liberty we are honoring the legacy of LGBTQ activism throughout the AIDS epidemic. Throughout the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, AIDS claimed the ...

Silence=Death is a 16-minute-long short film that blends real-life footage of ACT UP’s protest at the DC campus of the National Institutes of Health, ...

The iconic protest visual used by SILENCE=DEATH and ACT UP became a key symbol of AIDS activism and LGBTQ+ advocacy. An ACT UP demonstration in NYC's Federal Plaza on June 30, 1987 (© Donna Binder, ...

The AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, better known as ACT UP, was formed in 1987 to protest the government’s slow response to the AIDS crisis. In honor of LGBTQ ...

This documentary from journalist David France takes us through crucial stages in the early history of ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), from its formation in 1987 ( six years into the epidemic ...

This immersive theater experiment enlists attendees to help recreate an AIDS activist meeting from 1989 as an exercise in empathy. By Laura Collins-Hughes On Monday evening at the Lesbian, Gay, ...

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