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...didn't take long for Rafsky to become involved in the AIDS cause. In 1987, he joined ACT-UP. His background in public relations, his working knowledge of the media, even his long hours of experience at The Crimson made him an asset to the group...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: Battling AIDS: One Graduate's Story | 3/2/1993 | See Source »

Last year, Act-Up members desecrated the Eucharist in St. Patrick's Cathedral to protest the Catholic Church's conservative positions on homosexuality...

Author: By Joseph A. Acevedo, | Title: The City's Worst Sacrilege | 2/19/1993 | See Source »

...emphasizes point . "I have no experience running up a $4 trillion debt." . "I'm all ears." . The lobbyists, under Perot, "Will all be in the Smithsonian." DOES NOT APPLY A Few of our Favorite Quotes . "Saddam Hussein, the dictator." . "Get those deadbeat fathers to pay up..." . "One of them Act-Up Groups..." . "...that human rights crowd" . "...that nuclear freeze crowd" . "China is a huge country broken into many provinces." . At a very early age [children] learn to learn." . "Talk is cheap...time is no longer our friend...isn't it time to just do it?" . "Democracies are our friends." . "Your...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Scorecard | 10/13/1992 | See Source »

Some of the generational split is ideological. The younger gays are more apt to be publicly outspoken about their sexuality and militant about social issues. They provide the bulk of the manpower for ACT-UP and Queer Nation, the two largest militant groups, and they are the gays most likely to endorse such extreme tactics as "outing" -- exposing the secret homosexuality of people who are judged to have hurt the movement or, sometimes, simply to have failed to do enough to help it. Older gay men are more apt to be somewhat closeted, to emphasize working within the system rather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gays and AIDS: An Identity Forged in Flames | 8/3/1992 | See Source »

...energy to do them with. Second, dramatic political activity is exciting: It's hard to top the thrill of meeting people, arguing with them and persuading them. Finally, we can't say no to television. Look at the success of home video shows. Look at the video coups of ACT-UP. We can't resist the power that comes from controlling television...

Author: By David A. Plotz, | Title: Mau-Mauing the Spin Doctors | 4/13/1992 | See Source »

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