Born during the darkest and most hopeless days of the AIDS epidemic in the US, ACT UP – the AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power – showed that a relatively small group of determined activists could change the course of an epidemic. Today, amidst record numbers of new HIV diagnoses here in Ireland, a new wave of HIV activism takes inspiration from the fierce example set 30 years ago.
Before ACT UP, the LGBT community’s response to the AIDS crisis in the US largely centred on providing desperately needed care and support. In March 1987, in a fiery speech at New York City’s Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center, playwright Larry Kramer described a litany of government failures that were exacerbating the epidemic and its devastation, and he castigated the politically powerless AIDS service organisations.
After six years of rising deaths, government inaction, public hostility; six years of deepening anger and frustration, Kramer’s call for “a new organisation devoted to political action” found a community ready to act.
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