Fight Aids! how activism, art, and protest changed the course of a deadly epidemic and reshaped a nation
"'Act up! Fight back! Fight AIDS!' This was the slogan for ACT UP--or AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power--an activist organization that emerged in the 1980s during the height of the AIDS epidemic. The group was loud, direct, and confrontational as it fought for access to treatment, compassionate care,...
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New York :
Norton Young Readers,
2025
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Basic facts
- Before AIDs
- The fight begins
- Coming out, taking care
- From care to protest
- Turning points
- For drugs, against silence
- Comfort and challenge
- Act up! Fight back! Fight AIDs!
- Congress and the courts, Bropadway and the White House
- Friom bleakness to breakthrough.
