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On March 10, 1987, writer Larry Kramer, a cofounder of GMHC, spoke at the Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center in Greenwich Village, New York, against government inaction and public apathy, and called for the formation of an AIDS activist group. On March 12, 1987, the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, ACT UP, was formed in New York.
Its first action came twelve days later. On March 23, 1987, The New York Times published an op ed by Kramer criticizing the Food and Drug Administration's response to AIDS, and on March 24 about 250 ACT UP members gathered at Wall Street and Broadway, near…
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On March 10, 1987, writer Larry Kramer, a cofounder of GMHC, spoke at the Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center in Greenwich Village, New York, against government inaction and public apathy, and called for the formation of an AIDS activist group. On March 12, 1987, the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, ACT UP, was formed in New York.
Its first action came twelve days later. On March 23, 1987, The New York Times published an op ed by Kramer criticizing the Food and Drug Administration's response to AIDS, and on March 24 about 250 ACT…
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ACT UP
On March 10, 1987, writer Larry Kramer, a cofounder of GMHC, spoke at the Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center in Greenwich Village, New York, against government inaction and public apathy, and called for the formation of an AIDS activist group. On March 12, 1987, the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, ACT UP, was formed in New York.
Its first action came twelve days later. On March 23, 1987, The New York Times published an op ed by Kramer criticizing the Food and Drug Administration's response to AIDS, and on March 24 about 250 ACT UP members gathered at Wall Street and Broadway, near Trinity Church, to protest drug company profiteering, especially by Burroughs Wellcome, the maker of AZT, and to demand faster access to experimental drugs and a coordinated national policy. Seventeen were arrested. The group took up the slogan "Silence = Death," which the Silence = Death Project had put on posters in 1986.
ACT UP used civil disobedience to bring its…