Word: act-up
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...part of the symbol of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT-UP) and other activist organizations, however, it has taken on many other meanings. At Harvard, it is taken to mean the complete acceptance of gays, regardless of one's own moral beliefs. That's what campus gay groups demand, and that's what the ruling ideology at Harvard promulgates...
...decrying even moderate conservatives as fascists and making no place in their world view for us--by demanding that we accept rather than tolerate homosexuals--BGLSA, Queer Nation and their allies have helped make co-existence well-nigh impossible. This weekend, ACT-UP displayed a poster which depicted Pope John Paul II and a condom and asked, "which is a dick and which is a condom?" This is blatantly offensive and deliberately inflammatory. Imagine the outcry if AALARM stooped to such a level...
...ACT-UP in Boston has also been stronglyinvolved in AIDS treatment and research, Murphysaid, because the area is such an "academicmecca...
...outraged Catholics all over the region when we threw condoms at priests," said panelist Will Murphy, a leader in Boston's ACT-UP organization. "Such attacks against religious figures are very powerful...
...combat this "inertia," ACT-UP has sponsoreddemonstrations at research facilities, negotiatedwith drug companies and has been involved withHarvard's statistical data center, an organizationthat receives clinical trial results from all overthe country, Murphy said