Word: act-up
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Several members of ACT-UP, a group which is working against Helms' re-election because of his staunch opposition to gay rights, met at Harvard yesterday as part of this weekend's lesbian and gay studies conference. (See related stories, page...
...panelists discussed the organization's efforts to deal with issues ranging from AIDS research to the cutthroat Senate race in North Carolina. ACT-UP's loose-knit organization claims operating centers in six major U.S. cities including Boston, and several foreign countries...
...ACT-UP has been a vocal critic of Sullivan--protesting many of his appearances. At the International AIDS conference this summer in San Franscico, ACT-UP and other gay activist groups drowned out the secretary's speech with a barrage of whistles and threw condoms on the stage...
...demanding he take decisive action to counter inaction on the part of the Bush administration," said Warren J. Blumenfeld, who coordinated the protest for ACT-UP Boston. "We are going to hold him on notice that he will be protested wherever he goes until he does act and get out from under the thumb of Bush and Sununu," in reference to White House Chief of Staff John H. Sununu...
...ACT-UP has specifically criticized the Immigration and Naturalization Services for its ban on immigrants who test positive for HIV, the AIDS antibody. It has also asked Sullivan to appoint a new head to the National Institute of Health sympathetic to their cause...