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...conference, the first of 10 expected to be held within the next year, featured Dr. Glaudine Mtshali, South Africa’s health representative, and Eric Sawyer, co-founder of the AIDS activist group ACT-UP New York, as guest speakers. SGAC addressed the scale of the AIDS crisis and its connection to gender, drugs and debt in developing nations. It also provided information on how to build coalitions, deal with media and motivate people to write letters to Congress...
...power of the Treatment Action Group's international networking became clear late in 1999, when ACT-UP protesters began dogging then-vice president Al Gore on the campaign trail to demand that the White House withdraw the threat of sanctions against South Africa in retaliation for any importing of generic AIDS drugs. The pressure worked - President Clinton issued an executive order to that effect, which President Bush has allowed to stand. After all, what politician wants to be seen standing up for intellectual property rights (and profits) in a situation where they may keep life-saving drugs...
...famously cantankerous playwright, below left, inspired ACT-UP's famously confrontational protests for an AIDS cure in the late '80s. As a result, gay and lesbian civil rights are loud parts of public debate...
...contracts it ought to be irrelevant to the discussion of a search for a cure. But it was precisely because it was not irrelevant in the minds of legislators, that it has taken so long for the government to respond to the epidemic proportions of this disease. Groups like ACT-UP were formed to compel our elected officials, through radical activism, to take action on AIDS...
...1950s by measuring the how wide a man's pupils dilated when he was shown a picture of a naked man. Such seemingly archaic trivia is engrossing, but most of the text focuses on major gay historical events such as the Oscar Wilde trial or the formation of ACT...