Fales Library: ACT UP New York

Archived since: Aug, 2015

Description:

This collection contains the websites for ACT UP New York, collected from 2008-2017. The website contains a timeline and history of the organization; information on their weekly Monday meetings; information on actions and demonstrations dating back to 1999 to 2007; zines and other organizing documents; treatment information; a t-shirt gallery; and information of the 20th anniversary commemoration of the organization. The website also has information and actions related to two affinity groups, DIVA TV (Damned Interfering Video Activists) and YELL (Youth Education Life Line). Issues that the organization focused on in the 2000s included police surveillance, AIDS denialism, HIV testing, HIV/AIDS in New York State prisons,George W. Bush and Republication politician attacks on HIV/AIDS education and prevention, international AIDS conferences, HIV immigration and travel ban, AIDS activism in China, high drug prices, and promotion of media related to ACT UP. In 2015 they stopped actively updating https://actupny.org/ and mostly updated at http://actupny.com/actions/. In addition to news and press releases dating back to 2009, the website mostly has information about the Robin Hood Tax Demonstration on April 20, 2013.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities,  Government - US States,  Gay liberation movement--New York (State)--New York,  AIDS activists--New York (State)--New York,  ACT UP New York (Organization)