On March 10, 1987 – ACT UP (The AIDS Coaln to Unleash Power) was effectively formed at the Lbian and Gay Communy Servic Center New York when Larry…
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GAY HISTORY – MARCH 10, 1987: ACT UP (AIDS COALN TO UNLEASH POWER) IS FORMED IN NYC [VIDEOS]
When ACT UP began, s founrs uld not have gused how high the group would soar; they would have been even more surprised by the particular nflicts that brought down to the time ACT UP was born, 1987, tens of thoands of Amerins—mostly gay men—had died of AIDS, and more were dyg every day, even as the ernment remaed largely different. Early that March, Larry Kramer, the wrer and activist who had helped found the Gay Men’s Health Crisis, livered a speech at New York’s Lbian and Gay Communy Servic Center, on Wt Thirteenth Street.