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ACT UP

For the City Girls song, see Act Up (song).
AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power
AbbreviationACT UP
FormationMarch 12, 1987
PurposeHIV/AIDS
Key people
Larry Kramer
AffiliationsActUp/RI
Websiteactupny.com

AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) is an international, grassroots political group working to end the AIDS pandemic. The group works to improve the lives of people with AIDS through direct action, medical research, treatment and advocacy, and working to change legislation and public policies.[1][2][3]

ACT UP was formed on March 12, 1987, at the Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center in New York City.[4] Co-founder Larry Kramer was asked to speak as part of a rotating speaker series, and his well-attended speech focused on action to fight AIDS. Kramer spoke out against the state of the Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC), which he perceived as politically impotent.[5] Kramer had co-founded the GMHC but had resigned from its board of directors in 1983. According to Douglas Crimp, Kramer posed a question to the audience: "Do we want to start a new organization devoted to political action?" The answer was "a resounding yes." Approximately 300 people met two days later to form ACT UP.[2]

At the Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, in October 1987, ACT UP New York made their debut on the national stage, as an active and visible presence in both the march, the main rally, and at the civil disobedience at the United States Supreme Court Building the following day.[2][6] Inspired by this new approach to radical, direct action, other participants in these events returned home to multiple cities and formed local ACT UP chapters in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Rhode Island, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and other locations.[2][6][7] ACT UP spread internationally. In many countries separate movements arose based on the American model. For example, the famous gay rights activist Rosa von Praunheim co-founded ACT UP in Germany.

  1. ^ "ACT UP new york". actupny.org. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
  2. ^ a b c d Crimp, Douglas. AIDS Demographics. Bay Press, 1990. (Comprehensive early history of ACT UP, discussion of the various signs and symbols used by ACT UP).
  3. ^ Blotcher, Jay (2006). "ACT UP". In Gerstner, David A. (ed.). Routledge International Encyclopedia of Queer Culture (1 ed.). Routledge. pp. 3–7. ISBN 9780415306515. Retrieved 2022-06-12.
  4. ^ Zafir, Lindsay (2019), "Act Up", in Chiang, Howard; Arondekar, Anjali; Epprecht, Marc; Evans, Jennifer (eds.), Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) History, vol. 1, Farmington Hills, MI: Charles Scribner's Sons, pp. 1–8
  5. ^ Leland, John (2017-05-19). "Twilight of a Difficult Man: Larry Kramer and the Birth of AIDS Activism (Published 2017)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-01-16.
  6. ^ a b Stein, Marc, "Memories of the 1987 March on Washington" for OutHistory.org, August 2013. Accessed October 11, 2015
  7. ^ Cite error: The named reference Northeastern was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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